Young generation can use their vote wisely

SOME older people poke fun at the 16 to 18 age group being given the vote. It is an extremely disheartening attitude.

- Jeremy Hall

These “blockers” assert that young people are motivated by emotion and that logic increases with age. Given the headlines in national newspapers read by older people, this assertion is clearly false.

“Reeves ripped apart... demolished by... fury as Labour.... Examples of a logical approach to politics? By contrast, the Lost Lessons Campaign organised by school students wants a “strong civic education that can navigate national division and foster community cohesion”

How positive, in contrast with some politicians who reduce their “analysis” to personal insults, encouragement of division and scorn for the better things in our country.

With the Lost Lessons approach, citizen/voters would better understand what ties our communities together, how government and legal systems work and what makes for a good society.

Place this superstructure on top of a well-balanced curriculum and we would have a voting generation that disproves the baseless political intolerance directed at the young.