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Teenagers on Politics

lauracurtis — 2014-12-10 12:53:02 UTC

http://www.theguardian.com/education/2003/sep/09/schools.uk2

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/politics-teenagers-dont-know-and-dont-care-6154736.html

Recent Stats on the upcoming general election

eleanorevans — 2015-01-14 12:51:42 UTC

'By my reckoning, even if younger teenagers were given the vote, the government wouldn't go about it in the right way. It would pass a bill allowing 16-year-olds to vote, only a third of the teenage population would find out about it, and hardly any of them would actually vote because they wouldn't know what to do or what they were voting for. Finally the government would say: "well, we tried".

If the government does decide that it's going to give us the vote, then it will need to make an effort - taking the campaign into schools and colleges, selling us the benefits, and helping us to understand what we are being given the opportunity to do. We could even vote through our schools.'

Leila D'Angelo

Tuesday 9 September 2003

http://www.theguardian.com/education/2003/sep/09/schools.uk2

eleanorevans — 2015-01-19 15:06:31 UTC

http://www.jrf.org.uk/media-centre/young-peoples-boredom-with-politics-should-not-be-confused-with-apathy-415

eleanorevans — 2015-01-19 15:06:53 UTC

http://www.psa.ac.uk/psa-communities/specialist-groups/young-peoples-politics

eleanorevans — 2015-01-19 15:08:17 UTC

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/31/young-people-interested-politics-alienated

lauracurtis — 2015-01-19 15:12:34 UTC

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/sociology/news/?newsItem=094d43454aca447a014ae37bcb584c4d