HISTORY OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION: Needed high school graduation requirement
Right now, Rep. Joe Alfieri and Sen. Ben Toews are bringing an initiative before the education committees of Idaho’s legislature that would add passing a year of the history of Western Civilization to our state’s high school graduation requirements. This is long overdue.
State bureaucrats have evidently not seen a pressing need for this measure. Many must assume that since our mainstream American culture is Western, there need be no particular emphasis on teaching Western Civilization in our schools. They assume that cultural osmosis will be sufficient to teach Idaho’s students what they need to know about our shared heritage.
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