There is much food for thought in the report and many of its recommendations deserve careful consideration. However, I can't disagree enough with recommendation 18, namely that the citizenship curriculum should be shorter and more practical. I find these extraordinary recommendations to make from a commission that we might have expected to recommend more, not less, citizenship education.
What on earth was it thinking of?
The commission's line of thought seems to go like this. "Much citizenship teaching is still poor and is said to be about 'abstract discussion about procedures and structures'. So, if we lower the voting age to 16, all we need to do is provide a short and practical course in Year 11 that students are bound to see the point of. Problem solved."
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