Posted on 11/29/2014 9:10:38 AM PST by Olog-hai
Rashana Jackman isn’t old enough to vote in an election, but she could soon have a vote on a city-appointed board that takes influential stands on neighborhood issues.
At 17, the Brooklyn high school junior is considering applying to serve on her community board, under a new state law that lets 16- and 17-year-olds join the panels that function as front lines of local government in the nation’s biggest city. The advisory but oft-heeded groups opine on zoning changes and liquor license applications, consult on city budgeting for local projects and serve as conduits for community concerns.
“It’s a great opportunity for me to make a change in my community,” said Jackman, who’s interested in education, health and social services in the diverse Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood.
In allowing 16- and 17-year-olds to hold up to two of each board’s 50 seats, New York is among communities nationwide giving school-age people more of an adult-sized say in government. The idea has sparked some debate over whether teens are prepared to weigh issues and regulations that can elude adults. …
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And I will make mere lads their princes, And capricious children will rule over them.Also another way to attack the family, by giving such youths undue and inordinate power.
— Isaiah 3:4, NASB
Business owners are going to have to cough up more money to get their approvals now.
Indeed progressive liberals on the march most are clueless until the 20’s.
Allowing gang bangers in is a breath of fresh air, the politicans, washington, the racebaiters and the media are promoting encouraging and protecting them in ferguson why not? I can hear the u haul lots running out of trucks as we speak
That is just great. 17 year olds who know nothing about the world and having been schooled by mostly left wing teachers. This will not turn out well.
Lets go back to the old days, you could drink at 18, Vote at 21 providing you could prove you at least completed 3rd grade........this was the early ‘50s.......in NYC.
Sadly an uninformed voter can do more damage to the COUNTRY than an 18 YO drinker.
I think the quack in Argentina did the same thing...gave voting rights to young teens, IIRC....
Yep. We all know that teenagers love to lecture all of us as to what is wrong with the world. What could go wrong with teenagers holding power in government???
Won’t be too long now.
Oh goody let’s let teens (who always show signs of great wisdom and life experience in their choices and decisions) have a ‘place at the table’.
This is as stupid as letting students decide what the curriculum should be
They will be too busy playing video games on their cell phones at the meetings to listen to what is going on.
Ridiculous crap
NYC a Great place to film those Zombie movies
Only in NYC, land of the lunatic Dumbocrats (and a few Conservatives).
They are killing a town some logic let’s burn the place down that will teach them to listen to us idiots on the march.
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