She expressed ambivalence about the current testing craze. Everyone is so strong into testing every year, testing students all the time. She said one of her teachers voiced reservations about the value of standardized testing, telling them, 'It makes me teach to the test. She said the country could use a dose of youthful idealism and frankness. What I've noticed anyway, young people, they're more straightforward in what they say.
Adults try to go around it.
The gun situation. Right now my view is we have all these guns. Besides hunting, their purpose is shooting people. It's the direct route young people take as opposed to adults, Grover said. She said young people see through insincere attempts at soliciting input and value opportunities to make a real contribution.