By James Simons-

UK schools should teach politics before G.C.S.E’s to educate them better about the basics of politics before adulthood.

It has to be a crying shame that most British adults did not known the referendum was advisory.  Even educated adults were not aware of this, but the average working class cannot tell you they even knew what a referendum meant.

All they understood was that if they wanted Britain to leave the EU so that it would put a limit on immigrants from EU countries entering the U.K as they please, they should queue up with their families and vote out. The reality of the matter is that our teenagers should be taught the basics of politics from a young age. Young people are disengaged with politics because they don’t even know how the system works.

If teenagers are taught about politics from their youth, they will be knowledgeable as adults even of those who eventually become drop outs in school. The whole thing about the referendum really should have been well understood by everybody, politicians must count it a shame that this wasn’t clear. Teenagers should understand what the constitution means, the principles that underpin Parliament  and its workings, why elections are important, and what a referendum means in all its applications.

If everybody understood that the referendum was only advisory, there would have been more questions asked for greater clarity. The ability of children to understand and retain may be underestimated by the UK  government and schools in general, which is why politic is not taught from a young age in our schools. There are many ways to make it interesting for children, by giving them roles to play that are political and explaining the various concepts and overall goals of politicians.

The whole ideology of the EU is something children can understand and relate to if taught properly by skilled teachers. Teachers have to be given enough incentive through adequate wage packages and top class training to enable them to impart the necessary knowledge and understanding in children. A lot of the political jargon used with advanced language can always be simplified for children to learn, keeping only the important and crucial terminologies like the  constitution, Parliament , collective responsibility, the electorate and other necessary terms that cannot be substituted.

Teachers must buck up their ideas and so should schools.  It is not impossible, tougher challenges have been achieved

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  5th December 2016