Adventures in Learning

Education in America has always been an adult’s conversation; it’s been the conversation that was almost always discussed behind our backs by our teachers, politicians, union leaders, and principals. We were only ever included in the conversation when we were needed to drive the point home, encourage our parents to be on their sides, or be programmed with everyone else’s ideologies. We weren’t allowed to have opinions and ideologies on it, our ages often used as the basis for discrediting and our inability to vote often used as the ammunition for insults while the adults flexed their superiority of “knowledge” and “experience” over our youthful heads. Those select few who dared tried to join the conversation where often told to sit down, shut up and get out of a conversation they are too young and naive to understand. Those select few who dared rebel against those warnings didn’t get too far either, often being drowned out or discredited by those who feared our youthful, contemporary like ideologies and prospective because at times they went against what they wanted us to believe. It’s a shame that we are treated as if our naïve minds and inability didn’t matter when it’s convenient for them to use us in the propaganda arsenal against those who don’t share their values but when we start smelling our butts and forming our own thoughts about the situations at hand we were treated as if we know nothing.