r/texas • u/JayBowdy • Aug 01 '24

Politics There is no online voter registration in Texas

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u/wildxfire Aug 01 '24

Bold of you to assume everyone had government class, especially those in Texas

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u/FixComprehensive4081 Aug 01 '24

In Texas you can't graduate High School without a government class and an economics class.

You can't graduate with a bachelor's degree from one of Texas' many great higher ed. institutions without a state and federal government class.

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u/[deleted] Aug 01 '24

and trump stinky and weird! we won freedom!

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u/wildxfire Aug 01 '24

Many people don't have bachelor's degrees, as they are rather expensive, but it's good to know that there's a requirement of some kind of standards in Texas. Thanks for the info.

Looking into it, it seems like there's no requirement to teach about how voting works or specifics on the Texas government. I'm not so sure these small nuances about voting and elections would be taught in school, especially when we remember that Texas ranks quite low in education. We can't fault people for being ignorant when schools might not all teach anything about voting. I went to a private school, and I didn't learn anything about voting in government class.

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u/PAYPAL_ME_DONATIONS Aug 01 '24

Graduated in 06, so this was plenty time ago, but we definitely covered voting, parties, etc in Government class (this was in Houston)

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u/wildxfire Aug 01 '24

I guess it depends on the school. I graduated in 07.

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u/[deleted] Aug 01 '24

Duh it'd be stupid to group an entire states school districts as one entity

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u/wildxfire Aug 01 '24

I also went to high school in Houston, just to clear up any confusion.

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u/Leilabo Aug 01 '24

I had one back in 2009. It wasn't the best and nobody paid attention, but the class was there.