“I have never seen the woman in my life,” a child said the first minister as Morgan that students were shown pictures of prominent British politicians.
The survey showed that only 8% of the students of the 201 secondary school asked that the first minister of Wales could identify the minister, and at least half -recognized Prime Minister Sir Kir Stmper.
The Commissioners of Wales’s children are calling to focus a strong focus on politics at school.
And political commentator Richard Vyan Jones said that the next SenedD election would be “to work on a large scale” to vote for 16 -year -old children.
Welsh government said that supporting learners to vote was an essential part of the course.
In Swansi, students of Birchgrove were shown pictures of Sir Kir and Morgan.
“I never saw the woman in my life”, said 15 -year -old Thomas.
Jackson, also said 15, 20mph rules Did many of his friends felt for the first time that Wales could make his policies.
He said, “I think the politics of English is very mainly mainstream. This is what people think more. People think that Welsh politics is not really an impact, even if it does,” he said.
‘No one reads newspaper’
Jackson said, “I get most of my news through social media, things like Tiktok and Instagram,” Jackson said.
“This is quite strange because I think a lot of political news is still in things like newspapers and anyone under 45 years of age has read newspapers.”
15 -year -old Loti says that people know more about UK politics.
He said: “I think it is clearly related because when you are 16 years old in Wales you can vote legally. So if people don’t know who he is [Morgan] Then they are not going to vote. ,
Carol Taylor, who taught school in school, said that she wants to give students some lessons in politics, because many parents cannot vote themselves.
“At least, they will vote in the council elections within two years, and they do not know at all about the council elections. They probably will not vote,” he said.
Pupils ‘Know more about Donald Trump’
Ms. Taylor said, “Many of our students are very confused about American and British politics.”
“Donald Trump is very regularly on his newsfide. They are very aware of him and they think he is really funny.”
Children’s Commissioner Rosio Sifuntes said: “We have brought on the assumption that politics is a dirty word or dinner table should not be discussed, but we are not really educating children and youth effectively on these subjects.”
In the report, political parties have also been asked to join with young people in next year’s election.
“I think media also has an important role.
“For example, currently no one is equal to Wales-specific newsmound, in which many children and young people we have used to get their information.”
In 2021, 16 -year -old children were able to vote Senedd and local government elections in Wales.
But according to Richard Veen Jones of the Wales Governance Center, Kovid meant that the children failed to learn about politics under its leadership.
“2021 was a false beginning. We need to resume, hopefully without Kovid. And simply pretends to be pretending to be 2021,” he said.
‘We need to start first’
Wales Governance Center said that 28% of children aged 16 and 17 in Welsh election studies said that they had discussed voting with someone in school, or in a young club or society in the last election in the last election.
Mr. Jones said that people need to know about politics from a young age and not only during the last years of education.
“This is something that people are a bit suspicious and I think it’s a problem because I think you need to start first,” he said.
“I think you need to try and develop people to understand the structures of governance, how you can engage in those structures.”
A spokesperson of the Welsh government said: “We fund organizations to participate in the Democratic process to support the Fund Organization to distribute projects in the classroom.
“This includes sessions that bring young people and elected representatives together.”