Many teenagers at the young age of 16 years can have their own opinions and thoughts about how the world around them should change, but at the same time, maybe they’re too immature to do so.
So the question is, should the voting age be lowered? According to World Population Review, Austria, Brazil, Ecuador, Argentina, Cuba and Nicaragua already allow 16 year old people to vote.
Let’s see what the teachers and students of Mission High School say about this debatable topic.
“I’ve seen at Mission and other places that young people are super knowledgeable and really empower themselves and their community with protests and writing,” said 12th grade American Democracy teacher Mr. D’Amico. “Around that age you start to be a critical thinker, the earlier we do that with our youth the more people we see participating in our world’s democracy, 16-18 is not that big of a gap.”
Similar to Mr. D’Amico, Lon’yah Morris, a freshman, was asked the same question.
“Yeah, because it’s going to affect us more in the future so it would be better to start making choices now,” she said.
On the other hand, 15 year old Angelina Jiang, a sophomore, says, “I don’t think they should because teens at 16 are still trying to figure out who they are. They’re not gonna be interested in voting or knowing about politics.”
What do you think?
