Should elementary schools be allowed to teach children about controversial political issues?

Elementary schools should not be allowed to teach children about controversial political issues. When children are in their preteen years they are the most vulnerable in believing the information that is provided to them. In addition, children get into conflicts with parents over the issue that has been thought to them in school. As well it gives the children long-term political ideology, that their side is always superior to the other. When children are in …

…someone's prospective and not their own. The topic of controversial political issues and its relationship to notions of integration, cohesion and belonging is complex, particularly so when placed within the school and the context of children's social interaction. The concepts of individual and personal prospective are shaped differently by different political believes. The child should developed their own typology which helps to reduce complexity by organising the children's accounts of their prospective into three dimensions.