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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.