Blog Stage 8
On Tuesday August 11 th , one of my classmates wrote a piece titled, “ Give Youth a Voice Expansion ” as part of her blog called, “Young Minded Perspective of the U.S.” I found to relate and strongly agree with their argument on lowering the voting age in order to allow young adults (aged 16) to vote. The author makes several points to support this claim, such as stating that many kids at that age are currently learning about politics in classes and are already being exposed to adult situations, therefore making them more mature to vote than assumed by most adults. As the author mentioned, she thought that kids at age sixteen are learning about the government, and are therefore informed enough to vote. I agree with this because at the age of sixteen most of us are learning about the government and the history of our country. Along with this, I know personally that in my history and English classes, the teachers have always made time for students to be able to discuss current news a