Kids Voting
On Tuesday, children in the Northfield School District will be able to accompany their parents to the polls and to vote! (See locations below.)
This is the third year children in the Northfield Schools have participated, thanks to the work of 120 volunteers who serve as coordinators and poll workers. Age-appropriate instructional materials are available to classroom teachers to prepare students for voting. At the polls, there are special ballots and a voting booth for the young voters. After the polls close, volunteers will count the ballots and the results will be reported soon after. Coordinators Rick Estenson and Virginia Kaczmarek estimate 2000 to 2400 young voters will participate.
Twenty years ago, while on a trip to Costa Rica, three Arizona businessmen learned that the country’s voter turnout is typically around 90 percent. This was attributed to the tradition of children accompanying their parents to the polls. The businessmen launched a school-based project in a Phoenix suburb, which has since grown into the Kids Voting USA organization.
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I wish the School District
I wish the School District would place as much emphasis on American civics and Constitutional classroom instruction as it does on the procedural aspects of voting. I would be willing to bet that 98% of NHS grads can't describe the Articles of the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, or the Federalist Papers. If you don't understand these things, you're prone to view government as a candy store rather than a guarantor of liberty.