Why does public schools do not teach the Declaration of Independence to their students?

Question

A California public school teacher was reprimanded for showing a copy of the Declaration of Independence in his classrfoom.

Answer 1

Why should public schools teach us anything that defies the goverment's vested interests? Certain schools, and particularly some individual teachers, manage to do a quality job, but they are the exceptions.
If public schools consistently imparted a sense of history and perspective, passed along a genuine understanding of the world around us, and actually taught kids HOW to think rather than WHAT to think... the entire system that props up public schools would collapse. If people actually learned things in school, they'd figure out that although governments are sometimes set up to protect human rights (like the Founders mostly intended to), the reality is that government cannot function without constantly violating human rights. In short, if public schools were really about education, the system would quickly fall apart!
Public schools are perhaps the most important part of the government, because like any religion, they bring us up to have the groundless belief that someone else will always be there to take care of us. Public schools don't exist to educate, they exist to produce obedient subjects ("good citizens"); I'm afraid they're not the fountains of knowledge we're supposed to believe them to be-- they're just sheeple factories.

Answer 2

They do teach the Declaration of Independence in public schools. They also teach the Bill of Rights, the Federalist Papers and the Magna Carta.

I can't imagine why a teacher was reprimanded for teaching it, but there is more to this story than meets the eye.

Answer 3

Several points.....
1) This is California we're talking about. They barely qualify as American
2) I'd be a little more at ease if you could write yourself. It should be "do" not "does"
3) I teach public school in Ohio. We DO teach the stuff people wonder why we don't teach. But the kids' homes are so f***** up and their parents so often have their heads up their a$$e$ that it's a wonder we can get anything through to these kids at all.
4) Ask the lawyers. I can guarantee you that the reason behind all that B.S. is a f****** lawyer and a bogus lawsuit. Shakespeare said it best....."first thing lets do.....let's kill all the lawyers".

Answer 4

Not true.

I am a teacher, and before school finished our children did a show of Independence day.

We teach the meaning of Independence day. Memorials day, and all the Holidays of the United State.

So I don't know about California, But most states in USA teach these Holidays.

Answer 5

Where's the proof?? Let's not have an urban myth moment that needs Snopes.com to debunk it.

Why would any teacher be reprimanded for showing the Declaration of Independence??

Do you really believe that happened??

Answer 6

sweetie, i have a friend who just got out of 8th grade. she goes to a public school and her history teacher told her class everything he could about the declaration of independence. he even went so far as to go into a discussion about the mayflower compact, which, by law, he cant teach, and therefore, had a student read it. i guess, it would be because of the religious things in it, but i cant think of any of the grievances that they shouldnt go over.

anything happens in california. i mean, the ninth district cant even say "under god" in the pledge of alliegence...c'mon

thnx 4 letting me rant!

Answer 7

Are you serious? I thought this was the United States, and I thought that the Declaration of Independence was a very valuable piece of American History. What is this world coming to??????

Answer 8

When I was in school we had to learn the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution .we also had to know every state and where it was on the map and every President . Do they teach that today ?

Answer 9

This nation is becoming more like the old foe Great Britian back when King George the 3rd ruled. I think Bush is King George the 13th, Bush and his Liberal minions are wanting to tear the constitution apart. They no longer like America and want it to crumble they want us to no longer have freedom! I say a new revolution is about to get started to declare a new independence from Liberal foes!

Answer 10

That's absolutely absurd.

The Constitution, declaration of independence, et al, are basic subjects taught in all Civics classes and social studies/US Studies, which is generally a requirement for HS graduation.