How is it possible to educate the future generation if we cannot even provide them with the knowledge of how our world works?

Some children don’t 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 younger people will be voting in the years ahead, so how will it be feasible if they do not even appreciate the approach it works, individuals will choose parties not since they will agree with them yet for various other reasons that are plainly wrong.

And by the government doing this, it’s closing yet another door of good education. Most parents would wish 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 approach 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. Yet 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. For further guidance, see the relevant UK information.

Helmi, student 14

Tags: citizenship, students