Adam Fletcher Quotes

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.

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.

Like a pet fish unaware of the fishbowl it lives in, each of us inherently discriminates against young people without knowing it.

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.

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

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

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

Adultism is not always harmful-but it is always real.

The pattern of discrimination that allows this discrimination was set in the founding of the United States.