"Adultism is not always harmful-but it is always…" — Adam Fletcher
"Adultism is not always harmful-but it is always real."
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14 Quotes by Adam Fletcher
Adam Fletcher has 14 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
- Any honest conversation about engaging young people must address discrimination against young people.
- Like a pet fish unaware of the fishbowl it lives in, each of us inherently discriminates against young people without…
- Adultism leads to a phenomenon of little adults, who are young people who are treated as adults-in-the-making. A non-discriminatory perspective…
- Most of society's decision making for young people happens without young people, and that could not happen without adultcentrism.
- Dropping out of school is the ultimately caused by discrimination against young people in schools.
- For every young person living on the streets tonight, there are many at home zoning out inside their homes through…
- The outcome of this culture of discrimination is that young people are routinely denied the roles in society they can,…
- Young people often serve as scapegoats for the challenges communities face. At the same time, they are routinely pushed away…
- The pattern of discrimination that allows this discrimination was set in the founding of the United States.
- Young people and adults need equitable relationships-they do not need equal ones.
- Meaningful student involvement is the process of engaging students as partners in every facet of school change for the purpose…
- It is not enough to simply listen to student voice. Educators have an ethical imperative to do something with students,…
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