Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Reflection in socratic seminar about lowering voting age.

What we did for this seminar i didnt really prepare or anything i didnt even read the text. But most of us prepared by reading this article written by Anya A. Kamenetz but i just didnt read the article and i still did a great job in the seminar. I made couple statments on which it doesnt matter the age you are it matters on education and which you are interested in voting as well. I talked most of the time but the times that i didnt talk were because of either other people were talking or i thought my statment was going to be completly stupid or not make sence. I need to work on my speeches and think about them before i say them 1 speech i made did not make sence to anyone they didnt understand what i was saying i need to work on not interupting people also.
The author and the paper i read about agreed with 16 year olds voting and i totally disagree with the author of this draft because 16 year olds are not even out of school yet and you think they should be voting and if thier not out of school that means they have even less idea about the presidents and how these people and others determine whether and why they think this candidate should be chosen or elected president.
The most interesting ideas that caught my attention was that having the responsibility to drive means you have the responsibility to vote and i totally disagree with that because driving and voting have different responsibility driving has different responsibilitys and driving is an fact and voting is an opinion. there are other people who talk about signing up and being a voter how you have to pass a test but i didnt write about that by!!!.

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