Thus, to be able to vote was a privilege. Now that the requirement to vote is reduced to the age minimum of eighteen, the privilege no longer seems to hold the level of honor it used to. I have always held the attitude that Election Day was left for the older people. People who, unlike me, were already settled down with their careers and could afford to pay attention to things other than the ambiguous future that lied ahead of me. I am nineteen years old, and I am still unfamiliar with the voting process.
Public education teaches everything from sex education to Calculus.
Young people do not pay much attention to politics because they feel that it is a waste of time and that it will not affect them directly. But the actuality of it all is that everything going on in politics today is really to determine our future and how good or bad it will be for us. Changes that could be made in the electoral system may help to boost awareness of its importance but may not get the youth actively involved. I feel that one way to increase the interest of the youth would be to make it mandatory for social studies teachers to discuss it's importance in class. Many students, such as myself, learn to be aware of certain situations through school.