Adultism is not always harmful-but it is always real.

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.

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

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

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

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 and youth as whole and complete people right now.