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

The outcome of this culture of discrimination is that young people are routinely denied the roles in society they can, should, and need to be occupying.

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

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.

Most of society's decision making for young people happens without young people, and that could not happen without adultcentrism.

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.