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Originally posted by bonbonbox
IMHO legal age for everything including driving should be raised to 21.
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You might as well raise the legal age of being able to get a job to 21, because in a sense this is what changing the driving age to 21 would result in.
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Originally posted by bonbonbox
My view is kids should be kids and focus on thier education, enjoying the joys of youth (not frying up burgers and delivering pizzas), and certainly not cluttering thier youthful minds with the crap that they will get far too much of as adults. Can't we let kids be kids?
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It would be AWESOME if we (our country - Hell, EVERY country) had it this way. Unfortunately, getting money for school lately is few-and-far-between, and the flipping of burgers and delivery of pizzas is what gets us said education and fun things.
As for moving the voting age to 16...its a pretty good idea in itself, but there's so many other negative things that would go along with it -
*Teachers would attempt to put out their politics in the classroom. The ones that already do it now, would do it more. This is not really a huge deal in classes relating to government and politics, but it would undoubtedly promote political "persuasion" in the maths/arts/sciences, etc. Personally, I don't think that should happen in public schools.
*The aforementioned advertising, and lots of it! I just don't think that public schools, where you are forced to be in the same area for 6+ hours, are the right setting for this.
*When you set a reasonable level for politics and political discussion, you will have people trying to "speak to" the crowds before they get to this age/grade level. Example: We change the voting age to 16 - then everyone is trying to persuade the 13 year olds to join their side!
Its a good idea, in theory. There are probably a few more problems someone could list. I think the above problems could be worked around, but only to a point could you "fix" them without completely destroying Constitional rights.
Like someone already said, there are young people that are very much into politics, and then there are those who could care less. Likewise with the older crowds.