If you put up posters around town for high-school kids, high-school kids will come. If you're casting politicians, you can't put up posters and have politicians come down.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I do think the public want to see politicians acting in a different way. What's brought young people into our campaign is that they were written off by political parties but they had never written off politics, and what we have is a huge number of young people, very enthusiastic and brimming with ideas. Those ideas have got to be heard.
Politicians are trying to attract people to issues.
It's always been the case that politicians want different things from children than good educators do. Good educators want imaginative, exploratory beings, but politicians just want economic units.
We should have high expectations of our children, but politicians should not tell teachers how to meet them.
School boards can be a steppingstone to higher forms of political leadership.
Young people have so much more power than they tend to think to be able to affect politics. And if people will organize and get involved and go out and knock on doors and hand out leaflets and make a change, then they can determine the future.
My parents are apolitical - no bumper stickers, no yard signs. They don't talk about politics.
We talk about politicians being in public life, but they seldom appear in the public space where everyone is free to appear as a citizen.
Taxpayers will not stand for - nor should they - the funding of poster sites, leaflets or advertising. What people will support is funding for political education, for training, for party organization.
Young people are being elected for School Boards all over the country.