According to The Wall Street Journal, "Schools are grappling with how to address the event with children as young as 5 years old and with finding ways for children who are too little to be told about school shootings to take part." Children in pre-K at Manhattan Country School will sing, "If I Had a Hammer" and "Paz y Libertad." Public schools like PS 321 in Brooklyn allowed children to do activities linked with the protests.
There is something deeply perverse about using children to promote a political agenda.
Children simply don't know anything about politics.
What makes children particularly valuable is their innocence, not their ignorance.
The fact that everything in the world is wondrous to children is charming, but it's not something we can truly protect; as children age, they learn more, and they become more jaded, as we all do.
Innocence is the moral quality of being sinless, and children are inherently innocent specifically because they have not yet developed the ability to distinguish right from wrong.
Children don't have such a compass - the most selfish, cruel and nasty human beings on Earth are small children.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/03/21/stop_making_children_into_moral_authorities_136584.html
There is something deeply perverse about using children to promote a political agenda.
Children simply don't know anything about politics.
What makes children particularly valuable is their innocence, not their ignorance.
The fact that everything in the world is wondrous to children is charming, but it's not something we can truly protect; as children age, they learn more, and they become more jaded, as we all do.
Innocence is the moral quality of being sinless, and children are inherently innocent specifically because they have not yet developed the ability to distinguish right from wrong.
Children don't have such a compass - the most selfish, cruel and nasty human beings on Earth are small children.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/03/21/stop_making_children_into_moral_authorities_136584.html
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