In response to “Thank you for your service.”

“The main reason why we don’t have consensus on democracy these days is this: high schools stopped REQUIRING passing a course in Civics (Government) years ago. The typical adult cannot answer basic questions about how our democracy works — Checks and Balances, Amendments, Elections, Oversight, Committees of Congress, etc. For a golden period of time, many newspapers had Newspaper in Education programs where every student was given a newspaper and assignments to find articles relating to constitutional government. Learning about Fact and Opinion was also the basic part of the curriculum. Sadly, nearly all local publishers killed the very popular NIE program some 15 years ago. A whole generation now thinks accurate news comes from social media.”