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\"\"<\/a>The S2 class have been looking this term at how we make decisions in a democracy.\u00a0 We have focused on local democracy and discussed our representatives and what they do for us.\u00a0 We have also looked at the various things that are provided for us by our council and finished off with a role play task where we looked at the difficult decisions councils sometimes have to make, due to lack of funding. \u00a0The pupils took on the role of parents, staff members & local shopkeepers in \u2018Avridge Council\u2019 and prepared speeches, which they delivered to Avridge councils\u2019 \u2018Education Committee\u2019 (Mr Campbell & Cllr Fred Hall!). Their persuasive arguments & searching questions regarding the committee\u2019s decision, led to a reversal of the decision to close one of the schools in the council area!\u00a0 Pupils then had the opportunity to question Mr Hall about his work as a councillor and find out more about some of the day to day successes (and frustrations!) in this role.<\/p>\n

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The S2 class have been looking this term at how we make decisions in a democracy.\u00a0 We have focused on local democracy and discussed our representatives and what they do for us.\u00a0 We have also looked at the various things that are provided for us by our council and finished off with a role play … Continue reading Tiree High School Councillor Visit<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":207,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3906,3388],"tags":[4212],"class_list":["post-2213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-debate","category-secondary-schools","tag-tiree-high"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/SAL\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/SAL\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/SAL\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/SAL\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/207"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/SAL\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2213"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/SAL\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2217,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/SAL\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2213\/revisions\/2217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/SAL\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/SAL\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/SAL\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}