The commentary “Is constitutionally required college credit necessary,” argues against the higher education core curriculum required by the Texas constitution, its down side is that not only fails to give strong, convincing, and supporting evidence, it also contradicts its on statement. If “[i]t is understandable that the state wants to see its residents participating in state and national government sophisticatedly and intelligently,” how can “these constitutionally required courses [be] a waste of time and tuition to the student[?]”

When I had to register for my first government and history class I also thought it thought of them as superfluous, but by the end of the semester my opinion had changed.

Every one should agree that the future of our government is in the hands of the voters. Its simple; votes get to chose who is going to have control over us, so they have to know about local and national government to be able to make the right chooses; therefore, they have to know how local and national government works.

Texas has one of the lowest percentages of eligible votes that are registered to vote in the country and the percentage of eligible voters in Texas that actually vote is lower than the percentage of 43 other states. The core classes are definitely a positive effort to change Texas ranking. When people learn about their government, they see how important it is to care about for it; consequently they become more interested, more involved, and more motivated to vote, act, and participate.

What other better way to teach people about government than through required classes? We can’t leave it up to the media to do it because they only show what people want to see and the little they show about politics is not always trustable and reliable, and if this classes are out of the curriculum no one would want to take them.

History and government classes taught in middle and high school are very important, but students are there because they have to, most of them will forget what they’ve learned, others won’t even care about learning it. The law doesn’t obligate students to go to college like it dos K-12. College students are older, more mature, they are there are there because they want to. You can’t compare how “effective” such classes are in the life of kids and teens with how effective they are in the life of an adult college student.

The government does not required “that in order to vote, at least the twelve discussed hours of credit be obtained” not because it is unfair, take a look again at how terrible Texas ranks nationwide in percentage of votes. That would only make it worse! We want more votes and for people to get more involved; so why not make people that chose to go to college to invest a little money and a little time on things that really matter?

I know that such courses are completely unrelated and useless to many majors, but students have to look at the big picture and realize that such classes are fare from been a waist of money or time; they are an investment for the future.