Planning a Campaign. Our campaign is to upgrade Windows XP to Windows 7. We plan to launch questionnaires, online petitions and have meetings with governors. We chose questionnaires because we can back up what we think with evidence when confronting the

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Year 10 Citizenship draft

Once we were allocated into a group we deliberated in finding a campaign which was thought provoking and would make a positive change to the school. We chose to make a big impact on the school because we thought it would be most beneficial to us. Most people in our group felt strongly about the idea of upgrading the school computers to windows 7, so we decided to campaign on this issue. We scanned the internet long and hard until we found competitive prices the school could cope with and fund (Microsoft website and other retailers for the product). We had debated about other campaigns like ‘changing the school uniform’ (coming under the same theme as ‘promoting greater student engagement in school or college’) however we thought it would be a major blunder for us because people would oppose it as it would involve parents having to pay out large sums of money. The government would not offer grants for the children’s parents however ‘some local authorities provide discretionary grants to help with buying school uniforms’, never the less we thought that it would still be an exorbitant price for the parents to pay (as the grants would not be paid out to everyone) , therefore we chose the issue of upgrading the school computers to windows 7. We think our issue is a good campaign as students have contacted us and tell us it’s a ‘worthwhile campaign’.

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We have contacted the school technicians and they told us:  “We are thinking about upgrading the school computers/networks. However various software might not work on the upgrade and it could cost a lot of money, but we will definitely upgrade the computers within 3 years.”  This is optimistic feedback for us, as there will be a definite change within three years.

The school computers are now installed with Windows XP; currently there are no computers with the Windows 7 operating system. Most viewpoints from people we have come into contact with are very positive. Students tell us “It’s a ...

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