The House of Representatives voted 65 to 32 to prohibit teachers from compelling students

to learn a list of 11 concepts that deal with race, sex, women, and women.

On a conservative uproar over a critical race theory, which isn't taught in elementary

or high school classrooms and still wouldn't.

Many students actually drove more than four hours from Savannah to speak out against a

divisive concepts bill that's moving through the legislature here, today they're saying

they're being silent.

You're listening to Civics 101, I'm Nick Kappa, DJ.

I'm Hannah McCarthy.

And this is part two in our two part series about civics and social studies education in

the U.S.

Part one for those who haven't listened was about the history of teaching history in the

U.S., the attempts and failures to establish a nationwide civics or social studies curriculum,

and the reasons why so few federal dollars go toward civics.

Today we are going to look at what's actually happening in classrooms through a teacher

who is also a department chair, so she is helping make those curricular decisions.

And we're also going to do a deep dive into so-called divisive concepts laws.

Okay, first, Nick.

In the last episode, you told us that by the end of this episode, you would have a better

understanding of how we are doing civics-wise.

Have you indeed come to a conclusion on the current state of civic education?

Sort of.

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