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<p>I agree wholeheartedly!! What this dean is effectively doing is to turn college distribution requirements in history into remedial education for what students failed to retain/cover in K-12. Sorry, but that’s not the college’s job IMHO. </p>
<p>Unfortunately, they no longer offer civics courses in most public schools. Moreover, there are even some private/boarding schools…including a few well-respected East Coast ones which allow their students to skip US history/government and Civics completely. </p>
<p>A reason why one college classmate from an East Coast boarding school ended up asking so many basic questions on US history that I ended up having to effectively teach it to him…and I attended <em>gasp!</em> a NYC public magnet school. Many of those questions are such that they betrayed substantial gaps in knowledge of basic US history covered in the curriculum of an average NYC public high school.</p>