5. Pupil Voices

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5. Pupil Voices
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• Why voices and not voice?

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• While clothing, common rooms and sanitary
  arrangements will all rightly be important to
  young people, we can be confident that there are
  bigger and more wide-ranging issues of pupils
  concern within their schools. (p)

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• Who should decide on the composition of a school
  council?
• Consider the advantages and disadvantages of
• SMT appointment
• SMT approved candidate list
• Open candidature
• Pupil-only vote
• Whole school vote
• Election by form group delegate(s)

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• Stephen Covey You cant talk yourself out of
  what youve behaved yourself into (p101)
• Albert Einstein Anyone who has never made a
  mistake has never tried anything new. (p52)
• Peter Wentz If you arent just a little bit
  depressed, you arent paying very much attention
  to whats going on in the world. (p57)
• Jade Macdonald In a world as messed up as ours,
  no one can have a hero or inspirational figure .
  . . because, at some point that hero or
  inspirational figure will screw you over to help
  themselves. (p114)
• (all quotations from Lorimer 2008,
• to which given page numbers refer)

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the majority of adolescents would sooner wipe
their rears with their polling cards than vote
responsibly (p)

• Do you agree?
• Should the voting age be changed?
• If so
• to what?
• why?
• what might be the impact on schooling?
• what might be the impact on citizenship education?

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Bibliography

• Lorimer, D. (ed) (2008) Learning For Life From
  Inspiration to Aspiration Dundee Learning for
  life
• Leighton, R. (2011) Teaching Citizenship
  Education A Radical Approach London Continuum
• OConnor, S. (2010) Why am I allowed to work and
  marry but not vote? Folkestone and Hythe Kentish
  Gazette 30 August 2010, p3