Civics Out Loud
Posted by The Philadelphia Citizen on November 11, 2025
Iconic Philadelphia author and youth voting activist Lorene Cary outlines a day in the life of politically engaged local students, lesson by lesson.
Lesson #1: Experiential learning: organize, lead, follow.
300 high school students, teachers, and chaperones from nine schools mill and talk and laugh under a dark sky-blue sky with clouds and bright yellow tulip poplars in LOVE Park. Other than the signs — ”VoteVoteVoteVote,” “Youth Voices Matter,” “Your Vote Matters” — this could be any field trip. Then a drumline strikes a beat. Positive Movement Entertainment, aka the Elmo drumline, with sure enough, a very tall man in a big red Elmo suit, turns toward 15th Street for their iconic march around City Hall.
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