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I found this video on YOUTUBE, where a young guy named Will Albino walks through the Padua Academy in the USA asking the female students there to sign a petition to end women’s suffrage. As you might guess from the title of my post, scores of young women not only sign the petition, but show they have absolutely no idea what it is, with one student saying “women’s suffrage is really bad”.Now, we must allow for selective editing here. Maybe just as many women didn’t sign, but were not included because let’s face it, a 50/50 split wouldn’t make a point would it? However, it does make me question what basics our kids are not taught in school today. Have English and History gone out of fashion? And in a country like the USA, where voting is voluntary and only 54% of eligible voters cast their ballots in any particular election, I have to wonder if these women would still sign the petition even knowing what it was. Maybe Paris Hilton should do an advertisement encouraging people to vote, then young women might actually know what suffrage is. In Australia, I can’t say the situation is much better. While we have compulsory voting for all eligible citizens, nothing can make apathetic people (anyone under 30?) care enough to give their vote the consideration and thought it deserves. As for our education system, again I would say our young people are faring badly. If any of the Big Brother contestants this year are representative of their Generation Y peers, teenagers can’t spell and reading went out of fashion with the yo-yo. Then again, when you’re 18 years old and wear t-shirts with Porn Star emblazoned across your tits, while singing “Don’t you wish your girlfriend was hot like me”, maybe you never see a reason why you would need an education, or even that pesky right to vote.