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What issue do we want to tackle this year? There are so many options. Oil spill. Natural gas fracking. Clean coal. Eco-club. Those are kind of global. How could we tell if our work made a difference? It's obvious. If we list it on our college applications and then get accepted.
"This is the most important election of our lifetime."
"What I do is pick up the morning paper, go through it carefully, and then, depending on how I feel about things, I either say the Pledge of Allegiance, stand there and do nothing, or walk out of the classroom."
Who should be the next eco-club president? The most vegan? The most carbon neutral? The most into solar? Eco-club. But we need someone who will attract kids to the environmental cause. Then it's obvious. The most popular. Or most athletic!
Type A Freshman - changed courses four times, got a job, organized a protest, quit the job, plans to take second semester abroad.
"Could you please downgrade this to a C? High expectations bring out the worst in my parents."
"I wish he'd actually play with his toy hospital, rather than just making strike placards."
"What I miss during school holidays is not going out on strike every Friday."
'Oh,oh, Regina has her lawyer with her.'
'I don't want to be a shepherd. I want to be the policeman who interrupts the play to tell all the mummys and daddys who have parked irresponsibly and dangerously outside to move their cars...'
Secretary to boss: 'You fooled some of the people all of the time, Senator, but they were all too young to vote.'
Children hold hands around a map of the world with picnic food.
War on drugs... war on terror... war on lima beans.
University Challenge
'We lost your case, but the PR was a success. Three publishers are bidding on your story, and 30 PTAs are petitioning to have the book banned.'
When Democrats Win, Democrats Win
"We're students and we don't like this sculpture. Have it removed by tomorrow."
"With the Suzuki method, they start them campaigning as early as three or four."
"The good news is, the children in the district have strong writing skills. The bad news is, we have sustained a letter-writing campaign from the third grade."
"I hope that this is just a riot of passage."
Pre-graduate and post-graduate student.
"I'm afraid we don't offer student loans to elementary school pupils."
Taking out the garbage can, cleaning up my room... Why doesn't someone start a civil war to free us kids?!
"Five kids have signed my petition. We'd like to have vegetarian options on the cafeteria menu. To help, I've put together a few recipes of my own."
What?! No way are we pushing for a green prom. Eco-club. Do we have to take the fun out of everything? People will totally embrace it if we frame it in the right way. Like? Saving energy by turning the lights down really low! Or using fewer chaperones. I can deal!
Voting on their Seats
'I'm guessing it'll have to be by text.'
Banned Books
'I'd like to run for class president but I don't want to put my family through a background check.'
Greta Thunberg
Class of 2015
"I'm not going into college today, I don't feel enough sense of outrage."
'Never mind about Jamie Oliver - how does Delia Smith feel about it?'
'Were the lemons grown locally?'
Courting The Youth Vote
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