Blog 9- Bullet Points

After reading "All: At Our Best Introduction" (Gretchen Brion-Meisels, Deepa Sriya Vasudevan, and Jessica Tseming Fei) and "Why Couldn't That Have Been Me? Reflections on Confronting Adultism in Education Organizing Spaces" (Luk, Schuettge, Catone, + Perez), the five bullet points that struck out to me was:

1."Authentic youth leadership- young people having power and agency to make
decisions affecting their lives and their communities." (Luk, Schuettge, Catone, + Perez).  I strongly agree with the idea that young people should have an opinion on decisions that affect their lives and their community. After all they are the ones who have to reap either the benefits or consequences of the decision that gets made! 

2."Just because adults step back does not mean that they do not have the responsibility to support young people's leadership. Authentic youth leadership is represented not by a space where youth are left to fight for their own liberation alone, but rather a space upheld by youth and adults between whom there is mutual trust." (Luk, Schuettge, Catone, + Perez). This quote is so important to me. Not only should our youth feel free to speak their minds and give their opinions on decisions that are impacting them, but they should also feel a sense of support from adults around them that are actually listening to them and taking their words into consideration.

3. "The power of out-of-school spaces  is in the experimentation and aspiration to model ways of being with young people that do not yet exists in other places, such as schools." (Luk, Schuettge, Catone, + Perez). This quote struck me partically because I personally work in an after school space and students have emphasized that they enjoy being able to "get away from school structure and having fun"

4. "Despite mainstream portrayals of recent political actions led by youth activists as unprecedented moments in time, youth-led movements for social change are not an invention of the modem era." (Gretchen Brion-Meisels, Deepa Sriya Vasudevan, and Jessica Tseming Fei). I feel as though a youth-led movement for social change is just as needed an necessary for modern times as well as events that have happened in the past! (especially with how events have been just this year in general)!!!!

5."In recent years, youth of color have continued to drive grassroots efforts toward justice in their schools, neighborhoods, and communities"(Gretchen Brion-Meisels, Deepa Sriya Vasudevan, and Jessica Tseming Fei). This quote struck only because we're in the year 2020 and nothing has really changed! Students of color are still fighting for justice throughout the communities that they live in and see everyday!!!!!! 

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