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Kid’s News Fall 2000
Hammond Elementary School
Hammond Elementary School
Kids’ Right to Vote
by Lindsey
The election is a very important
time of the year. Kids should be
able to vote. They should be driven
by their parents to the polling
location to vote and then taken
home by their parents. If kids voted
it would make a difference in
which president was elected.
Adults have no more rights than
kids, and everybody should have
their own right to vote for the
president. If kids could vote, the
law should be that they can’t talk
about their votes, and they should
have to know a lot about the
candidate to vote for him or her.
When the next election comes,
kids older than 10 should be able
to vote. There are some reasons
why kids can’t vote now. They
don’t have the education and
information on our political system
to be able to make a good deci-
sion. Kids don’t understand the
views of the candidates on issues
such as the country’s health sys-
tem, or welfare system, or taxes.
They will easily be persuaded by
other kids’ opinions about whom
they are voting for. Kids would be
voting without knowing what they
are really voting for. They might
copy someone else’s ballot.
The law should say that if kids
are ever allowed to vote, they
should be supervised. Kids aren’t
very educated in politics. If kids
knew more about the candidates, it
would be fine for them to vote.
Although all adults are allowed to
vote, some adults vote without
knowing how the candidates view
the important issues. These adults
are voting in the same way that
kids would. If these adults do this,
then why can’t children vote? The
While waiting in the parking lot for
the players to leave practice, I was
lucky enough to see Michael
Moore, all 6 foot 3 inches tall,
weighing 320 pounds. He ap-
proached his car and I went over
Alabama for three years and then
transferred to Troy State. In 2000,
“Mookie,” as he is known to his
fellow players, signed a contract
with the Washington Redskins.
He’s an offensive lineman and his
Redskin. What a thrill!
Harry Potter
by Bryan
Harry Potter is a good book for
advanced readers. It is a story
about a boy who lost his parents
and was delivered to his aunt and
uncle and his cousin. Since they
hate him so much, they make him
work hard. One day he gets a
letter saying he can go to a
wizarding school, but his uncle
won’t let him go. Then a wizard
comes and takes Harry school
shopping. Next, Harry is taken to
a magic train to a school of witch-
craft and wizardry and has a lot of
adventures there. One adventure
is that he finds out the story of
how his parents died.
After interviewing classmates, I
found some people like and don’t
like Harry Potter. Nick says he
likes Harry Potter because it’s
creative and funny. Damani likes
