I was
reading your article in Voice of the UK the other day and you talked about
voting at 16. Your opinion about that is pretty clear. As an example you
mentioned your own daughter and her ‘laziness’. This and the youth in general
is what I refer to.
You
described your daughter as a non-political teenager, who’s just interested in
video games and having fun. This might be true for a lot of young people, but
their behaviour isn’t the real problem. In my opinion, the education plays a
big role in this case. Teenagers and also younger kids should be more
confronted with politics in school.
As a pupil,
I can say that I was too less confronted with our political system and I only
got information’s from the TV when I attended main school. I attend a
commercial high school now and so I got many more information about politics
but many pupils of main schools won’t attend a high school which cares about
this topic as a commercial high school.
So how do
they get the right information about our political system? I think the
future-pupils should be confronted with this topic in their younger years, when
they are attending main school. When they get 16, they are already enough
informed to think about elections and who to vote.
Sincerely
Katja
Höller