Wow, the former mayor having the support of some of former constituent's kids, who were definitely cherrypicked for photo ops, really says a lot about all kids in Rhode Island. /s

I remember complaining that my history classes always ended at WWII (after skipping over WWI completely--I had no idea what it was about until I took a class in college). Today they sometimes seem to go to Vietnam at least.

The ending on WWII year after year actually caused me to hate WWII. Don't talk to me about it! It's boring! My father, who's own father fought in WWII, thinks I'm a heathen, but I'm just sick of it. There are so many more interesting history periods. Can we please learn something else? Hell, even in 20th Century America, there is a stuff of cool stuff my history classes never got to that I didn't learn about until college.

You don't need to specialize in civics to have a basic understand of your duties and responsibility as a citizen. Those are things everyone should have a basic idea of.

Like, specializing in civics would mean a political analysis, or political scientist or something of that vein. Obviously, not everyone needs to have that level of knowledge. But everyone should have the basics. They should know how to vote. They should know their rights. Basic-ass stuff.

What that Hell does that have to do with understanding your civic duty?