Tuesday 5th November 2013. Lesson 3. Hours 1 and 2.

NEWS.

In small groups we discussed a news story from a paper which soon turned into a small controlled debate. Reading our paper we came up with the following stories:
- Prince Charles 19 million a year estate should face tax scrutiny
- The trouble with an MP referring to a policeman as a 'pleb'.
- And a terrorist going into a mosque wearing a burka to hide who he is and the bad name this gives Muslims. 

This was the story we chose to discuss. 


The other news stories we discussed included:
-The want for children to start formal education at the age of 2 to give them a better advantage and to make the equal to private schools. 
- The government spying on us with phone hacking and internet tapping and the general mistrust within our social system.
- Condemning EU migrants.
-And video game rehabilitation centers for children addicted.
   ~ This one I found particularly ridiculous as if a 12 year old child is going to get addicted to a violent 18 year old game his parents brought for him then its obvious who to blame. And if all you do is allow your children to spend hours playing said games then you shouldn't be shocked if they become addicted. 

Monday 4th November 2013. Lesson 1 Politics.

POLITICS

To me, politics is important and should be considered important to the youth of today because it will be us who's running the country one day and contributing ideas on how to make it better. Also I think it's important for us to know how our country is being run as it directly affects us and their is still some laws and agreements in place which i don't agree with. 

Moreover we talked about how plays can be considered political, and we came up with a political play is one which confronts this issues we citizens have to deal with in life and issues we may feel strongly for as well as making the audience think and look back on how we view society ourselves.  

We finished with an exercise in which we all lined up to whether we agree with a statement 100% or if we don't 0%. The point was to get us thinking about politics and be able to back up our political views.