Posted by alexandra_k on August 17, 2018, at 22:09:46
In reply to Re: balance of power » alexandra_k, posted by beckett2 on August 17, 2018, at 19:39:32
> High school civics classes need revamping here.
we don't have those.
we did a unit on the new zealand legal system (the role of parliament etc) when i was at intermediate. age 10 or 11. we did the fall of the berlin wall and the holocaust and the irish potato famine.
at high school social studies we did the US fronter(sp). medieval england.
history (optional) was either nz history land wars or england (kings and queens).
we had legal studies which I actually took. I don't remember learning anything at all of use in that class, though. it was largely... 'free learning' sort of a class. easy option for the kids whose parents would let them / didn't realise it was a way of offering them no education.
at university i did a couple law papers and learned some... not a lot... but some... i learned that politicians were supposed to pass laws and that our laws are seriously underdeveloped and there is next to no accountability in this country for politicians and the judicary doesn't have teh power that it has in the US, for example.
i went to a conference on rights... human rights...
and i've sought legal aid / advice. from the citizens advice place and from the free law advice place that is suppposed to have something ot do with the law school...
and they really didn't know anything at all. i mean, really, didn't know even the stuff that was available online.
and where are you supposed to find the laws that are actually supposed to be upheld in the courts so you know what you and others are and are not allowed to do? like physically where do you find such documents so you can look things up instead of needing to rely on 'word of mouth' of these supposed legal advisor people who don't know?
they didnt' even know that.
so...
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