And there was collective global outrage last January after Trump’s remark about immigrants from “s—thole countries.” How could kids, especially those of colour, deal with this obscene trashing of Black populations? As writer Tabatha Southey observed in Maclean’s, “Fords are like a language we studied in high school that we never imagined we’d need again.”It’s also a language that, unless he tempers it, we don’t want our kids in elementary or high school learning at all. Kids are porous, and they are also excellent mimics. American child psychiatrist Dr. Gene Beresin, a Harvard professor and executive director of Massachusetts General Hospital’s Clay Center for Young Healthy Minds, warned last year in the Huffington Post that parents “should be worried as their kids watch Trump day after day modelling quite the opposite behaviour they hope for in their kids.”He advised them to “try to turn off the TV and divert our kids from watching.”But the TV screen is the least of our worries as kids become cyber literate before they hit puberty. This should be a week of triumph for high school kids in particular, as multitudes of American teens, led by the survivors of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting last month in Florida, converge on the streets of Washington and elsewhere to demand gun control in this Saturday’s March For Our Lives.

Source: thestar March 22, 2018 21:00 UTC