What are some creative ways to get students involved in politics?
I’ve noticed thаt thе teenage population gets “turned οff” (аt lеаѕt mοѕt οf thеm dο) bу politics. Whаt аrе ѕοmе creative ways tο gеt involved іn thіѕ upcoming election ’08?
I’ve noticed thаt thе teenage population gets “turned οff” (аt lеаѕt mοѕt οf thеm dο) bу politics. Whаt аrе ѕοmе creative ways tο gеt involved іn thіѕ upcoming election ’08?
Threaten to reinstate the draft. They will pay attention then!
I do reckon our younger generation pays attention to politics, but I reckon it could be made simpler.
My government instructor had us “be” one of the candidates and we got in groups and debated the issues as the candidate. Each of us came up with a debate question, then we were given copies of the questions so we could research our persons stand on the issue. It was challenging and fun.
Have campaigns and elections in your classroom to let them see first hand how it works. Form a government in class. Many questions will initiation being questioned then. Kids like class participation especially if it’s fun. If you really want to get them excited have a court trial in the classroom complete with a judge and jury.
Pose hypothetical questions to them that would affect their day after day lives. If they don’t vote, they have no aptly to complain. Example, “What do you reckon about cellphones being banned for minors?” or “Do you reckon it is okay to demand minors to take a class and apply for a license for a cellphone?” I reckon , you would get a huge discussion group on that.
Go to the schools. Have a concert or some give-aways. Have music that is politically aware. You can find new or budding artists online that would like the chance to perform and get the exposure to the world.
Also hand out promotional hats and T-shirts as prizes to contests. It could be a prize for answers to questions like “Who can guess the closest amount to what the national debt will be when you have to pay it off?
What will happen to earth if we do nothing to stop global warming?
Etc,,
Also have a show where they can register to vote if they are ancient enough and fill out a sample ballot,
Sign up interested students to work for different Presidential candidates.
I reckon that should come from the parents myself. We talk to our daughter about different issues and even though she is a pre-teen, she doesn’t always agree with mom and dad. That is a excellent thing.
The schools have a tendency to be too liberal…go figure. If they could keep an open mind and let the kids make the decisions then I would say they should go for it. But one of the schools my child went to, they pushed them into agreeing with them. That isn’t aptly!
Make a PS3 or wii game about it. then plaster some fancy statement about how cool it is to be involved in politics on quick food packaging or make radio and TV money-making about it and repeat them twelve hundred times a day. Do what the republicans and the conservative media do to us everyday.
Tell them something like “Did you hear that all the XYZ (make up your own category) tudents are going to be sent to a different school” …or some other offensive new “law” to piss them off and have the argue why that shouldn’t be. Parlay this into a discussion of rights and “issues at stake” in the upcoming election and why it all matters to them personally.
Let them have debates and mock elections. Try to show them how politics affects their lives and will even more so when they get out into the real world
student elections, debate team, student government, young republicans, etc,etc
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