If you have kids who are taking or have recently taken civics in school, what can you tell us about what’s being taught?

How are teachers handling issues such as the demolition of our system of checks and balances and the hijacking of patriotism? This includes the debasement of the executive branch, the prostration of the legislative, and now the degradation of the judiciary. Not to mention the demoralization of the electorate and the fracturing of social bonds.

Or, of course, if you prefer, the beautiful triumph of the minority political party over the sad, sick, evil majority the likes of which the world has never seen, nor even the space aliens.

What are American schoolteachers telling the kids about how this is supposed to work, how it actually is working, and what it means? Are they trying to teach our national ideals and beliefs, our troubling reality, or both?

Topics: education, politics, civics, u.s. government, check and balances