My English class is doing a twofold project on this topic. The first part is a paper aiming to convince the entity with control over the policy that the policy needs to be changed or implemented. The second part is an advocacy project (I gather it’s usually a petition or something. Blah).
So of course I am trying to think of ideas–my favorite idea won’t work. But I think this would also be an interesting discussion! So what policy would you change or create? It can be as local as your community, or as global as, well, the world.
Possibly the banning of “rehoming” practices? There was that case recently where a family who had adopted two children rehomed them to another couple (usually done over the Internet, little to no legal oversight) and that couple sexually abused them.
Some big classical ones based in the US:
The Two Party System
Educational System Changes
Public v Private funding for item X
-Eliminating Standardized Testing
-Eliminate Grading
Changing Form Of Government
The Monroe Doctrine
States Rights
Others:
China’s One Child Policy
Allowing Aided Suicide (Kevorkian)
@PengsPhils The death with dignity / aided suicide thing I thought about using for my project, but it would kind of skeeve me out to actually advocate for such a thing–my general feelings on it are like, do what’s good for you but I don’t need to have anything to do with it.
Interesting choices though–you’d eliminate grading entirely? Do you think people would coast through school without really learning?
I don’t necessarily agree with all of these I just think they are interesting topics. I do think grading carries way too much importance but I haven’t gone into exact particulars of how to fix it. That would be the change you could try to create for your project if you chose that one.
Encouraging sustainable energy and electric vehicles, fixing infrastructure, automatically admit anyone with my name to any college they want with a free ride (but only in the year I graduate high school), encouraging development of lab-grown meat and alternative foods like soylent, more efficient water usage, replace all streetlights with blue ones to decrease crime (yes, that works), REFORM THE PRISON SYSTEM TO DECREASE PUNISHMENT FOR MINOR CRIMES AND TO FOCUS ON REHABILITATION, free ponies, better school lunches, more of a focus on online education, get rid of for-profit colleges, get rid of for-profit prisons, ban the death penalty, make the judicial system more efficient in order to allow for less biased trials, easier exonerations for wrongly convicted people, plain packaging laws for cigarettes and heavy taxes on tobacco farms, campaign reform, ban Chipotle from charging extra for guacamole, and incentives for cheaper and tastier pizza and icecream.
I think that’s pretty comprehensive for what I’d do.
But I think this would also be an interesting discussion! So what policy would you change or create? It can be as local as your community, or as global as, well, the world.