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So many adults think that it is so cute, even enlightening, when a student such as Emma Gonzalez at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School calls out adult for speaking \u201cB.S.\u201d<\/p>\n

<\/iframe><\/p>\n\u201cIsn\u2019t she wise for her years? She speaks truth to power. We need more people like her.\u201d<\/p>\nThere is an underlying premise that as we get older, we get wiser. \u00a0Here\u2019s the problem. That just may not be true. It\u2019s essentially impossible to measure, because who knows what \u201cwise\u201d is. Also, is it possible to have more than one version of wisdom? Maybe that which bright high school students regard as insight is more accurate than what the wizened professor thinks. Or, maybe they both have views that are equally valid, but substantially different.<\/p>\nAdults have the upper hand by virtue of their power. There are no high school students who own television stations or cable outlets. Few have more than an individual presence in social media. For these reasons and many more, it is easy for adults to stand in judgment of high school students.<\/p>\nAdults hold the power over students as to what options they have for their future. Grades, letters of recommendation, determining who makes the sports team, who gets the lead role in the play, who qualifies to be hired for a job; it\u2019s the adults who have control over the students.<\/p>\nThere is good reason for this when kids are young. But as children get older and move more into their adolescent years, the imbalance of power becomes more questionable. The fact that adults still hold the purse strings over adolescents does not mean that the adults\u2019 judgment is better.<\/p>\nThis takes us back to Emma\u2019s words about B.S. One might posit that those who have the most wisdom are those who are the best B.S. detectors. Listen to the students from Stoneman Douglas. Few dance around the gun issue. They know that putting more guns in schools, even if in the hands of security guards, only puts everyone in the building further at risk. They know that the balance of power between \u201cgood guys\u201d and \u201cbad guys\u201d is less important than the number of weapons that they collectively have at their disposal.\u00a0 They know that if anyone is going to have a gun, there needs to be a thorough background check in advance. They know that in a civil and civilian society, there is no need for any high-powered gun. Some even know that there are countries such as the United Kingdom and Australia where it is virtually impossible to get any kind of gun, and the rates of gun violence are virtually nil.<\/p>\nSo, adults, let\u2019s not patronize these students and praise them for what they understand. Instead, let\u2019s think about where we as adults have gone wrong; where we became a society in which guns are okay, B.S. has become the currency of much of the land, and dysfunctional is the best way to describe our political system.<\/p>\nIt\u2019s probably too late for those of us who are adults. It seems that the older we get the more difficult it is for us to change (except for the inexorable movement towards conservatism that seems to occur with each generation).<\/p>\nWhat is needed is to find ways for today\u2019s adolescents to not commit adultery \u2013 to not become like the adults of our generation and most past generations. Let them keep their B.S. detectors and their insight into absurd adult behavior.<\/p>\nThis is not impossible. A few suggestions might be diminishing the role of college, placing less emphasis on credentials, and having people hold one another accountable for losing the B.S. detection skills they once had. This is all difficult, but if we are a society that almost gave Donald Trump a majority of the popular vote and which allows guns to run rampant, we need considerable fundamental change. 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