Yes!
Yes!
Kids should be allowed to vote for president.
Kids should be allowed to vote for president.
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First of all, what the president does matters to kids. We should help pick who the president is!
Next, kids have great ideas. Sometimes we have better ideas than grown-ups. We would make good choices.
Last, kids are people too. We should have the same rights as adults.
We should help pick the president. Who our president is matters to kids.
Kids have great ideas. We would make good choices.
Kids are people too. We should have the same rights as adults.
No!
No!
Kids should not be allowed to vote for president.
Kids should not be allowed to vote for president.
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First, kids don’t know everything adults know. We don’t know enough yet to vote for president.
Next, we will probably just vote the same as our parents. We may feel weird voting for someone different.
Last, I like being a kid. I don’t need to do everything adults do. I can wait until I’m 18 to vote.
Kids don’t know everything. We need to know more to vote.
We may vote like our parents. It may feel weird to vote for someone else.
I like being a kid. I don’t want to be like an adult. I can wait to vote.
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Social-emotional Learning Focus
Respectful discussion
Social Studies Focus:
Civics: Voting
1. PREPARING TO READ
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- What is your opinion? What information or argument helped you form your opinion?
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- Then students can underline three points in the debate that back up their opinion.
- Last, they can complete our printable to show what their opinion is.
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