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

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

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

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.

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.

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