American millennials: Too young to vote, but old enough to care

By The Stagg Line, Amos Alonzo Stagg High School
Special to Global Student Square

Journalists from The Stagg Line at Amos Alonzo Stagg High School in Stockton, Calif., produced a series of stories featuring politically interested students who are “too young to vote,” but “old enough to care.”

In an introduction to the package, Editor-in-Chief Phillicity Uriarte-Jones writes that most high school seniors are 17 years old, not yet able to vote, yet “(t)hey are nearly adults, wise from years of schooling but not yet with age.”

“But these teenagers care,” she adds. “They care about their futures, and about the way that elections are going to affect it.”

The series of stories produced by Stagg includes an explanation of how teenagers form political ideologies, an article about Bernie Sanders’ impact on youth and a first-person account of how a Hispanic migrant has become politically active.

Click on the image below to zoom in and read the stories, and check out The Stagg Online.

—Kellen Browning, U.S. editor