“It’s very important to teach the controversies,” Jarold Graff, University of Illinois; I think that this mindset is very important for educators to have. Education is not black and white, and there most definitely IS a place for politics in education. The types of citizenship education I received from grade K-12 was for the most part, mainly personally responsible citizenship education. We were taught, especially at an older age that it is important that we either go to post secondary or get a job, vote, pay taxes, and just be a generally responsible citizen. The way that we were taught this stuff was through mostly verbal teachings. We were also taught how to be Participatory citizens, because each year at my High School (Thom Collegiate), we held a “beat cancer” fundraiser where all of the proceeds would go towards charities that helped families affected by cancer. We would typically raise quite a bit of money, from students and teachers selling things, having activities, contests, and donating all of the proceeds. This was by far our proudest accomplishment each year, we typically raised around $10,000 which was huge since we were such a small school. The instruction in citizenship education teaches students about the culture of their community, about expectations, and responsibilities. This is important because if a student is unfamiliar about what is expected of them as a citizen, this will teach them the importance of being self aware and responsible. I think that the goal of this is to create students who are going to make the lives of government workers, and politicians easier. If everyone is taught responsibility, then it will make the jobs of government officials easier.