The Bronze Medal

But the longer I work with teenagers, the more I realize that these kids are really thinking. Perhaps it’s the adults who need to convince ourselves that the adolescent world begins and ends with Twilight and Gossip Girl, or that a high school-aged reader is not sophisticated enough to contemplate the issues that make his parents socially uncomfortable … Of course, that’s not the outlook I choose to subscribe to. While I’m positive that many New York teenagers will spend tomorrow’s snow day at home playing video games, I’m equally as positive that someone will be reading Howard Zinn or listening to Dead Prez or googling feminism. The old guard would rather you not know this, but it’s true.

— Via the always fantastic Nervous Acid.

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