By Owen Barnes and Oliver Bates , Challenge Wednesday Writer
Today, older people are sharing discouraging opinions about teenagers and children they find in the news… is this fair?
We found that, older people, that do not come outside and only watch the news to find out what is happening outside or around the world today, are having bad opinions about teenagers and children in large groups. People seem to associate us with gangs, anti-social behaviour and general rudeness. Do you think children are treated fairly outside of the local area, either by themselves or in a group?
The average adult also is guilty of this stereotypical remark. Children are being victims of these remarks and we need to do something to help stop this. We have personally experienced such remarks during PE lessons when someone assumed we had skipped school. Is this another outrageous remark and stereotypical guess about us children and teenagers in the community? Yes.
So as you know, children love to be with their friends and go out without parents. Yet, there is a downside. Adults can be sceptical about groups of children in say, a shop or a park. We personally think that adults should have no rights on children that are not their own. If someone owns something and is concerned, that's fair, yet it is nobody else’s business to go as far as reporting the children to a manager or an owner of a shop. Unless a serious incident happens which disturbs them, then they have no power.
We thought that to backup our claim, we would get multiple Phoenix members to share a story about the previous entry.
“ Well, it started when I had a large bag of groceries and an adult told me off, and I didn't know them, yet they told me I stole them, but I was buying them for my family.” It seems as though many stereotypes are around children loitering around shops etc, but this is all not true. Many children look with respect to older people and show them care.
What do you think?
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