It is time to educate the nation’s youth on the importance of emergency preparedness.  School systems public and private should be mandated to educate on emergency preparedness.  This would provide citizens a mind set at an early age on why emergency preparedness is so important.  May times we see citizens ill prepared when a disaster strikes.  Education is the key to ensuring that all citizens have at least an awareness of how to prepare for a multitude of natural and man-made disasters.  Classes could be taken as an elective in the student’s high school year.  Curriculum could be based the National Incident Management System.