Category: law

• Part 1: New Juvenile Justice and Transformative Youth Engagement

  Part 1: New Juvenile Justice and Transformative Youth Engagement Theft, vandalism, violence and other crimes plague communities across the United States today. Low-income neighborhoods, communities of color, rural towns and other areas around the nation are disproportionately affected by these realities. The young people who are needed to restore, replenish, reinvigorate and reimagine these places […]

  Adam F.C. Fletcher

  January 29, 2018

  Adam Fletcher’s Topics, law, youth engagement

• Leelah’s Murder Is OUR Fault

  Leelah Alcorn’s death was practically a murder. It shows how America’s legal system, which enshrines parental rights above children’s rights, has killed another young person. More importantly though, we need to see that Leelah’s murder is our fault. We have not done enough, taught enough, said enough, or worked hard enough to stop this horror from happening. […]

  Adam F.C. Fletcher

  January 9, 2015

  Adam Fletcher, adult allies, adultism, advocacy, bullying, children’s rights, ephebiphobia, government, law, pedophobia, perceptions, policy, troubled youth, youth empowerment, youth policy, Youth Rights

  adultism, adults, children, social change, youth, youth discrimination

• Federal Law and Student Involvement

  Following are two juicy nuggets of law I’ve poached from this report regarding federal law and student involvement. 20 U.S.C. §6314(b)(2)(B)(ii) – Provides for appropriate student involvement in development of the Title I program plan in secondary schools, though with none of the specificity applicable to parents.  Provisions of the Perkins Act require local plan description […]

  Adam F.C. Fletcher

  January 13, 2010

  law, Meaningful Student Involvement, SoundOut, student engagement, student rights, student voice