Every teenager thinks they Know It All. I bet you thought that when you were in high school and college. I bet I did too. And, we all did dumb stuff when we were young. And every adult generation made fun of the dumb stuff kids did. But, I don’t remember my generation doing things like eating Tide Pods to the point where the detergent had to be put in locked boxes. We also weren’t as touchy and Offended by everything. We lived by the rule “sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me.” So, yeah, let’s totally let people who earned the moniker “special snowflakes” lead
Editorial: America Has Failed Its Kids on Guns. It’s Time to Let Them Lead.
Adults are supposed to take care of children — not only keep them safe, but make them feel safe. Schools are essentially an extension of the home, in that sense, providing sanctuaries of learning, of nurturing and care. But after years of attacks by people with weapons of war, students cannot feel safe and are demanding that adults end years of complaisance and act. They are not asking for their schools to become armed garrisons. Rather, they want those weapons to be brought under control. And unlike too many adults, the young people leading Wednesday’s walkout at schools around the country — inspired by angry, motivated students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, in Parkland, Fla., where 17 people were killed by a former student with an assault weapon — have had the courage to take on the industry responsible for blocking every reasonable measure to limit access to guns, including those that make it all too easy to commit mass murder.
As Stoneman Douglas junior Florence Yared said in front of the Florida State Capitol late last month, “You adults have failed us by not creating a safer place for your children to go to school. So we, the next generation, will not fail our own kids. We will make this change happen. If not today, then tomorrow, and if not tomorrow, next year. Take it from us. You created a mess for us, but we will make this world safer for our children.â€
So, if memory serves, it was a complete and utter failure of the process, of people who work for government at the local, county, and federal levels not doing their jobs. Heck, even their radios failed. That’s what the kids should be upset about. Instead, it looks like they are in gun banning/grabbing mode, which is surely being pushed by adults.
With Wednesday’s demonstration, and their March for Our Lives movement on March 24 in Washington, young voices are being heard. How will the nation’s adults respond? Hopefully, by amplifying their demand: Never again.
Following that are all sorts of quotes from these worldly Tide Pods eaters (OK, they don’t all do that. Many just take a gazillion selfies and videos of themselves involved in inappropriate, risque, and stupid behavior), but, hey, if the NY Times Editorial Board is totally behind safety, why are they not concerned with children walking out of school? Shouldn’t adults be stopping them? Those adults are charged with safeguarding and watching these children during specific hours of the day.
“We may be young but our voices are louder than you can imagine.â€
Screaming babies are loud, too. Kids denied their cookie can get pretty loud. I don’t take advice from people who spend more time on social justice idiocy than STEM, history, and real world subjects, and think that there are more than two genders. But, what this all is is the NYTEB using kids as human shields to attempt to get their gun grabbing rules and laws passed.
