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 as serious problem-solvers capable of changing the world.

Like a pet fish unaware of the fishbowl it lives in, each of us inherently discriminates against young people without knowing it.

Any honest conversation about engaging young people must address discrimination against young people.

Dropping out of school is the ultimately caused by discrimination against young people in schools.

Young people and adults need equitable relationships-they do not need equal ones.

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 as serious problem-solvers capable of changing the world.

The pattern of discrimination that allows this discrimination was set in the founding of the United States.