Rights Young People Should Have

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Rights Young People Should Have
By
Vaishnavi
Abhyankar
Age- 13 Date- June 25th 2008
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Introduction

• I would like to investigate the extent to
  which both young people and adults feel that
  young people also can and should have a say in
  the world. I am a young person and have strong
  views about the involvement of young people in
  decisions that affect their lives. I think that
  young people should be given the rights that are
  given to adults. It is my belief that young
  people can be treated as equal citizens in
  society and I wish to explore through this
  research project the perceptions and views of
  some young people and some adults about this
  subject. The participation of young people in
  decision-making is becoming more usual in
  different areas of life such as schools and the
  development of services. It will be interesting
  to test what the views of some groups are and
  from this, make recommendations for change in
  organizations or in society at national level.
  The comparison of views of young people and
  adults in England as described will also be
  informative.

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Research Plan

• Aim
• To investigate the views of young people
  (11-14) adults in England, regarding the extent
  to which they should influence decisions that
  affect their lives.
• To find out the views of adults in England. The
  topic areas include voting, public decision
  making (for e.g. services) and school.

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• Ethical Consideration
• The research ensured that all participants
  gave informed consent. Confidentiality
  anonymity was guaranteed to guard against any
  sensitivity in young people about adults knowing
  their individual views. Adult participants were
  also guaranteed confidentiality and anonymity.
  The research was sensitive to cultural
  differences and took account of this when sharing
  the data.

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• Method
• I designed a questionnaire about rights and
  gave this to a mixed group of adults and a group
  of students from my school aged between 11 and
  18. The questionnaire explored attitudes of the
  two groups about young peoples rights. These
  were then analyzed and the results used to
  determine whether young people should be provided
  the same rights as adults and if yes on what
  aspects.

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Places From Where I Gathered The Data

• This research was conducted in one of the
  schools in Milton Keynes where many young people
  answered the questionnaire, some questionnaires
  were also filled up by some of the teachers. Some
  of the other data provided by adults was from my
  fathers and my neighbours office colleagues.

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In this question majority of people think that
childrens ideas and opinions are considered only
a little at school, but it is not like they are
never considered, rarely they are considered.
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In this question majority of people think that
childrens ideas and opinions are considered only
a little by the society, but it is not like they
are never considered, rarely they are considered.
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In this question most of the young people think
that they are not provided enough rights at
school whereas majority of adults think that they
are provided enough rights at school.
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In this question majority of young people
slightly agree to the concept of schools being
just like universities from the point of view of
freedom, and majority of adults disagree to this
concept.
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In this question majority of young people think
that they should get to decide their school
uniform whereas majority of adults think that
there should be a dress code of formal and decent
wear.
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In this question majority of young people feel
bad sometimes if they are called as a child
whereas majority of adults feel that young
children sometimes or not really feel bad if they
are called as a child.
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In this question most of the young people not
really feel offended if they are called as a
child whereas most of the adults think that
children do feel offended if they are called as a
child.
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In this question majority of young people feel
that they are sometimes as matured as adults
whereas adults feel that young people are not as
matured as an adult.
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In this question majority of young people feel
that 15yrs is the right age for voting whereas
majority of adults feel that 18yrs or above is
the right age for voting.
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In this question most of young people feel that
17yrs is the right age for driving whereas most
of the adults feel that 18yrs or above is the
right age for voting.
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In this question majority of young people feel
that the right age for marriage should be 18yrs
or above whereas all of the adults also feel that
the right age for marriage should be 18yrs or
above.
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Majority of the young people as well as majority
of adults feel that the rights in England are
about right.
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Conclusion

• The conclusion I can draw from this research
  is that young peoples ideas and opinions should
  be considered in the society and schools, but
  that these should not be equal to adults because
  young people are not should not yet as mature as
  an adult. Here are some suggestions that I have
  drawn from my findings
• there should be a dress code of formal and decent
  wear in schools rather than either one particular
  uniform or complete freedom to wear what they
  want, this will let them express their identities
  well and also be decently dressed.
• Children should not be looked down on or be
  underestimated as even they can have good ideas
  and can know a lot.
• The age for voting should be set at 16yrs as,
  even though they are not completely as mature as
  an adult, they know about politics and social
  issues going on in society.
• The age for driving should be 18yrs old because
  driving is a risky thing and young people may
  race ridiculously and end up in an accident.
• Age for marriage should also be 18 yrs as
  children.

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