Citadel to require cadets to study the Constitution and other founding documents

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Seem's very appropriate. especially with the profound lack of such education in current elementary and high school educational system, even more so for those commissioning into the military with a duty to support and defend the Constitution.

The Citadel, the public military college in Charleston, South Carolina, has announced it will require all cadets to complete a class on the U.S. Constitution and other founding documents beginning in the 2020-21 academic year.

The Citadel is 1 of 6 senior military colleges in the United States. Founded in 1842, its mission is to instill cadets with “the moral courage to do the right thing” so that they “become principled leaders in all walks of life.”

The Citadel’s president, retired Marine Gen. Glenn Walters, announced the new requirement July 1 in response to alumni and state legislators who asked the school to comply with a state law mandating the class. The decision by Walters to establish this requirement brings the college into compliance with state law.
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The Citadel Will Require All Cadets to Study Constitution

South Carolina's public military college is now in compliance with a state law requiring a yearlong class on the Constitution.
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Hi Phil. Do you know your school board's policy on teaching the constitution? Has any citizen attended a board meeting to present the teaching of the constitution as an agenda item? I wonder why the constitution isn't in the curriculum of schools in your district.

The US Constitution is taught in the Government classes in the school where I teach. The interpretation of the document though varies among teachers, students, parents, and other stakeholders in the district and the broader area where I work and live.
 

We the People: The Citizen and the Constitution - Wikipedia

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Our DSes participated in different years and their school won the State Competition each time. They went to DC for Nationals, where they got smoked.

It was/is a great program. It taught them there is more to the Constitution and the Bill of Rights than what one can fit on a tee shirt. It also taught them how research, argue and defend complicated ideas and principles--in front of a large group of strangers.

If your school district doesn't participate, it should.
 
I teach medical sciences and biotechnology. Nearly every year of my 13 or more of teaching high school, at least one and sometimes a few students ask me for help with their government assignments. I always turn down students' request for help with math or chemistry but am good at and enjoy helping in the "easier" subjects. As long as we are caught up with medical stuff of course. The AP Government curriculum is brutal. We educators call that rigorous. My first masters is in Public Administration but many of their assignments send me to the Internet.

Our proximity to Sodom on the Potomac is one of many advantages our students have when it comes to learning about lots of topics and especially government, history, policy, and a slew of other things. Here's Little Cindy when she hands me a field trip form to sign: Me: Cool, you're going to the capitol. Little Cindy: ugg, yeah, ugg, I went in 8th grade, waaa. Me: ah, well, have a good time, I guess.

Lots of kids from here are almost desensitized to all the opportunities around them, but the new kid coming in after mom or dad transfers from say, Fort Riley, get to catch up on everything and see the monuments and walk the halls of government and history. My wife and I took the George Washington Parkway home from Walter Reed yesterday and the view driving past the District is as magnificent as it was the first time I ever saw it.
 
apparently many things are no longer taught in high school like history and civics. Most HS students dont even know who was fighting in World War II and why; a third of all HS seniors cant name the Vice President of the U.S. or the Governor of their state.
 
Interesting that there is an article on this—Most every SA and SMC on this forum likely already offers a constitution class.
 
Landy91 said:
Interesting that there is an article on this—Most every SA and SMC on this forum likely already offers a constitution class.
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I think the point of the article is that the class is required for graduation - not that the Citadel offers a constitution class.
 
Devil Doc said:
I teach medical sciences and biotechnology. Nearly every year of my 13 or more of teaching high school, at least one and sometimes a few students ask me for help with their government assignments. I always turn down students' request for help with math or chemistry but am good at and enjoy helping in the "easier" subjects. As long as we are caught up with medical stuff of course. The AP Government curriculum is brutal. We educators call that rigorous. My first masters is in Public Administration but many of their assignments send me to the Internet.

Our proximity to Sodom on the Potomac is one of many advantages our students have when it comes to learning about lots of topics and especially government, history, policy, and a slew of other things. Here's Little Cindy when she hands me a field trip form to sign: Me: Cool, you're going to the capitol. Little Cindy: ugg, yeah, ugg, I went in 8th grade, waaa. Me: ah, well, have a good time, I guess.

Lots of kids from here are almost desensitized to all the opportunities around them, but the new kid coming in after mom or dad transfers from say, Fort Riley, get to catch up on everything and see the monuments and walk the halls of government and history. My wife and I took the George Washington Parkway home from Walter Reed yesterday and the view driving past the District is as magnificent as it was the first time I ever saw it.
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Devil Doc, God bless ya for teaching; Kids today definitely need more folks out there setting the right example in their education. And I too always loved that view on the GW Parkway!
 
Landy91 said:
Devil Doc, God bless ya for teaching; Kids today definitely need more folks out there setting the right example in their education. And I too always loved that view on the GW Parkway!
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Thank you. When I retired and moved out of base housing we rented a house in a neighborhood that was part of Washington’s river farm. Going to and fro on the parkway was part of the daily routine for six years. I couldn’t afford to buy there and now live 25 miles away but still work in the area.
 
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