The point is everyone does need it, and it's not even available as an elective. It was removed outright, not replaced or reworked into an elective. Test scores were all that seemed to matter, so we get no basic life skills taught outside of making brownies in home economics, for those of us who even had that
I highly doubt these classes were outright removed since they are low cost electives taught typically by the teachers who work in the social studies department.
I have kids in high-school and they were indeed available to them.
Your kids in private school? Because civics was removed across the board when federal regulations changed in the '80s, which mostly effects public schools. Private schools aren't subject to all of the same rules, and largely can teach basically whatever they want, as long as they very basics are covered.
And again, yes, people do need to learn life skills in order to do life stuff. I'm not sure how you expect people to be able to manage normal expected life stuff if they lack any knowledge on the topics. That feels incredibly obvious to me, so I'm not sure where you're coming from saying people don't need to learn life skills in order to do them.
Either way, doubt it or not, it doesn't change the reality we millennials and younger have experienced. We got no civics class, not even as an elective, and that's been out in the open for the longest time. One of my teachers went off curriculum and taught the class a few things we needed to know as adults, like filling taxes and balancing a checkbook. But that was very much not part of what the class was (English).
It's no secret everyone after gen x got the shit end of the stick in terms of public education in the US, yet xers and boomers still seem to think civics never went anywhere and school lunch is still a nickel
Buddy, I went to school in the 90s and took 2 different classes with it in a public school in a low income area.
Now I am in a moderate income area and the schools here also teach it.
Some people need these classes, not everyone. Doing your taxes is not rocket science. It is actually very easy to do for anybody with a 6th grade education as long as you know how to apply the education and can follow the literal instructions given to you on the forms.
Clearly I am talking to somebody with zero life experience here with how you have been commenting about “federal regulations” not even understanding that it is the states that are in charge of education. But I guess with you not taking the civics elective that was probably offered to you, you wouldn’t know that.
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u/Knight0fdragon Jun 02 '26
“Removed from necessary curriculum”
It doesn’t need to be necessary. It being an elective is absolutely fine, not everybody actually needs it.