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Originally Posted by Gayle
I think politics should be taught in schools (I've probably said this way too many times now and am getting boring about it). But I don't mean in the big, national picture way, but how politics impacts on everyone's life. People don't think politics is anything to do with them but tell them that it's about which schools are doing well, how the roads are resurfaced and when the new shopping centre will be built and it all becomes relevant. If they knew this from an earlier age it wouldn't be such a huge thing to pay attention come election time. Trouble is finding someone who could teach it without being biaised.
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Totaly agree. Politics IS important wether you have extream left/right views or not, it's still very important and effects lots of things in your life.
When I mention that I study politics at college to anyone, I get moans and groans and questions such as 'How do you manage it? It must be so boring!, I can't stand politics'. Now I don't know exactly what they think we do, but how can learning about how you can change your own future be boring?
I think people take our stable economy and general center-groundness of the parties for granted. If we had extream manifestos, there would be a lot more people wanting to vote/get involved.
ps. I would just like to say that before I started politics at college (I was 17 when I started that subject) I didn't even know what left and right wing was, although I did know a bit about what some of the parties stood for. It is pretty obvious which political party the teachers of politics we have had support, and neither of them have managed to influence me through bias
