A response to an article

Dear Sir,

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