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

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.

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 who disengage from school. These are direct effects of internalized discrimination based on their age.

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.

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.