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One of the great unexamined assumptions in contemporary life is the view that children and youth, because of their “developmental stages,” are less worthy of being considered full members of the human community. We readily define young people only by their ages, as if being a fourteen year old, for instance, tells you everything that is important about a particular child. This is very much an example of the “danger of a single story” that novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie discusses in a 2009 TED Talk, in which she describes the stereotypes that take hold when complex human beings are reduced to a “single story” (for example, “She is an immigrant,” “He is from Africa,” etc.), as if that one narrative takes full account of what you need to know about another person.

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Children and teenagers are more than their ages. I have been inspired by the young people in Florida and around the country who have reacted to this latest school massacre with passion, courage, and determination. This is not to say that everything they assert should be accepted uncritically. Far from it. To take someone seriously means to engage in a genuine way with what they are claimng, not to accept it without analysis. But that is a very different approach than dismissing what the students are saying just because it is them who are saying it. (Jana Mohr Lone)

 

 

 

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