Adam Fletcher Quotes

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• 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 knowing it.
• Adultism is not always harmful-but it is always real.
• Adultism leads to a phenomenon of little adults, who are young people who are treated as adults-in-the-making. A non-discriminatory perspective would be to treat children…
• 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 video games, and even more…
• The outcome of this culture of discrimination is that young people are routinely denied the roles in society they can, should, and need to be…
• Young people often serve as scapegoats for the challenges communities face. At the same time, they are routinely pushed away from connecting to their communities…
• 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 strengthening their commitment to education,…
• It is not enough to simply listen to student voice. Educators have an ethical imperative to do something with students, and that is why meaningful…
• It's really seeing student involvement … as a variety of opportunities that are appropriate for each given student and responsive to their individual needs and…

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