We need to awaken adults to the conditions they have created for their children. We can brainstorm, and come up with a handy guide. Children are in the best position to unlock the dilemma that faces them. Teachers ask the same questions related to not having an audience with people who can make a difference. They know that the children most often go unheard.
Children feel unempowered.
I believe these exercises can be beneficial to the towns, the leaders, and the children themselves. But we need some way to format and tap into these outcomes. Rarely are the parents who bring these children to these events interested enough in the children's role, ideas and the honor of presenting to the community to do anything more than bring them, dump them off, and come back 45-60 minutes later. The event appears to have no more meaning to most of these parents than a soccer game practice. The two parents that came to Brevard last night dropped the six kids off, went home and came back an hour later to pick them up.