Some children do not have families who encourage them to read newspapers to know what is happening in the world at that current moment. Whether or not you are not interested in politics, it doesn’t differ as no matter what you say politics will affect you. Not to mention that this generation of young people will be voting in the future, so how will it be possible if they do not even understand the way it works, people will choose parties not because they will agree with them but for various other reasons that are clearly wrong.
And by the government doing this, it is closing yet another door of good education. Most parents would want their child to attend a school that was concerned about the wide offers of participating in the Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme, in Young Enterprise, charity fundraising or the European Youth Parliament. In addition to this it is just setting the base of every child’s life to become a good citizen. And how is that in any way negative?
The Government might respond by saying that schools are not required to have timetabled lessons for citizenship, instead teaching through lunch periods or through other lessons. But this will just mean that it will pushed towards a corner of the schools education and will then end up as a lunch club that, being realistic no one would attend to.
Helmi, student 14
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I am starting a new school where life skills will come first. I completely agree, citizenship is not a priority for a lot of schools. How to manage finances, how the government works, how voting works, local councils, etc etc are all not taught or focused on in schools.
Yes! Finally something about it small business support.