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Need for Political Awareness in school students

Generation Z is growing up with iphone's and imac's, everything they want to know is just a finger touch away, classrooms and playgrounds are being replaced with mobile devices, and social media gives enormous amounts of information all time, every time. Gen Z is maturing fast and so are their habits, they are more and more socially aware than any previous generations, and one aspect of life that influences the most amount of understanding and behaviour is politics, and we don't know how much politically aware our school going child should be! We think of politics as dirty and corrupt but political scenario and the policies effect every aspect of our lives every day, today's students are tomorrow's leaders, so for students to be politically informed is absolutely vital, but how much is too much needs to be evaluated by parents and teachers periodically. Problem with most of the social media platforms today are that they are flooded with hate messages and extremis