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It’s really seeing student involvement … as a variety of opportunities that are appropriate for each given student and responsive to their individual needs and their desires for their educational experience.

Adam Fletcher

Most of society’s decision making for young people happens without young people, and that could not happen without adultcentrism.
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Adultcentrism Decision Discrimination Happen Most People Society Young
These are direct effects of internalized discrimination based on their age.
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Age Based Direct Discrimination Effect Internalized
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.
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Direct Effect Home Inside Person School Tonight Zoning
At the same time, they are routinely pushed away from connecting to their communities as serious problem-solvers capable of changing the world.
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Away Capable Changing Connecting Problem Pushed Routinely Same Serious Student Time World
It is not enough to simply listen to student voice. Educators have an ethical imperative to do something with students, and that is why meaningful student involvement is vital to school improvement.
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Educator Imperative Listen Meaningful School Simply Student Voice
Adultism leads to a phenomenon of little adults, who are young people who are treated as adults-in-the-making.
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Adult Children People Perspective Phenomenon Treated Young
Dropping out of school is the ultimately caused by discrimination against young people in schools.
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Discrimination Dropping Life Out People School Ultimately Young
A non-discriminatory perspective would be to treat children and youth as whole and complete people right now.
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Children Complete Discriminatory Non People Perspective Treat Whole
Meaningful student involvement is the process of engaging students as partners in every facet of school change for the purpose strengthening their commitment to education, community & democracy.
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Commitment Discriminate Engaging Fishbowl Like Meaningful School Student Unaware
The pattern of discrimination that allows this discrimination was set in the founding of the United States.
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Country Discrimination Examination Foundation Pattern Set Student
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.
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Culture Discrimination Need Outcome People Role Routine Society
Young people and adults need equitable relationships-they do not need equal ones.
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Adult Equal Equitable Need One People Relationship Young
It’s really seeing student involvement … as a variety of opportunities that are appropriate for each given student and responsive to their individual needs and their desires for their educational experience.
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Appropriate Candidate Desirable Desire Each Educational Experience Involvement Opportunity Responsive Student Variety
Like a pet fish unaware of the fishbowl it lives in, each of us inherently discriminates against young people without knowing it.
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Against Discriminate Fishbowl Inherently Knowing People Pet Process Student
Adultism is not always harmful-but it is always real.
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Adultism Discrimination Harmful People Real Student Young
Young people often serve as scapegoats for the challenges communities face.
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Challenge Community Face People Scapegoat Serve

It’s really seeing student involvement … as a variety of opportunities that are appropriate for each given student and responsive to their individual needs and their desires for their educational experience.

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