Indeed, schooling has been so skewed it's incredible. Home-schooling is becoming the only way to give our kids the straight facts while avoiding the "thou must vaccinate" racket at the same time. Real civics would ultimately involve the 3-step trivium -- grammar, logic and rhetoric -- so we could have a classical education again and produce Americans that no plutocracy could so easily fool, divide and conquer. The trivium, translated, means to first understand language (grammar), analyze what you've come to understand (logic) and act on it (rhetoric, e.g., speak in public, petition, protest, testify to a committee, run for office, etc). The Powers that Be want us paralyzed so we either don't know what's up, and if we do, we're afraid to act or don't know how to take action. That's why the trivium was abandoned,