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Parents want their teenagers engaged in positive extracurricular activities. If your kids are playing sports, acting in the school play, writing for a newspaper, or participating in student government, they are less likely to be drinking, smoking, and otherwise getting in trouble. Good parents cultivate their children's interests.
Most parents whose child has signed up for Al Gore's new initiative, Inconvenient Youth, are likely pleased that junior has taken an interest in an important policy issue. Far better to ruminate about ways to improve the environment than to waste time playing video games or watching Jersey Shore reruns on...
Inconvenient Facts About Inconvenient Youth
Teaching kids to spout out these "facts" is
going to put them in dangerous situations where
they will do the 'performance' well and they are
in a set-up to have the 'facts' picked apart by
people who know both sides.
Kids can't handle that.
When they won't know the answers to reply they
will be shamed ... and no GOOD parent would put
their kid in a position like that.