My school community is campaigning against the suggestion from the secretary of education Michael Gove, to remove citizenship from the national curriculum. For those who are unaware of what citizenship is, it is a subject that teaches a variety of topics that can be very useful in daily life, such as rights and responsibilities, racial harmony, globalization, politics in the media etc. I especially believe that citizenship is essential for the youth of today; as many do not pay attention to any form of news resulting in a lack of knowledge about important current affairs happening in today’s world. The removal of this subject could be detrimental to both the curriculum and future generations.
In our campaign we performed four different methods. We wrote to our local MP and the citizenship foundation addressing our issue and if they were willing to support it. The citizenship foundation kindly responded announcing that they were very pleased to see that we are taking productive action on the issue and that they would be delighted to support us with our campaign. We also individually carried out a petition in which we asked friends, family and even strangers to sign in support of citizenship staying on the national curriculum, which was then sent to the House of parliament. After these three methods we then contacted the man himself, Michael Gove via letter, addressing our issue and to persuade him not to carry his suggestion forward.
We hope by carrying out this campaign people understand that citizenship is fundamental and vital to the future generations in order for our society to grow and become a more informed and responsible community.
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