JOANNE JACOBS: Too much ‘adult supremacy’ at school? Or not enough?

I am an adultist, and proud of it. Now that I know there is such a thing.

San Francisco teachers were urged to resist “adult supremacy” at a weekend workshop sponsored by Teachers4SocialJustice, reports Annie Gaus in the California Post. “Youth as Knowledge Producers: Challenging Adult Supremacy Through Ethnic Studies” was part of an “Ethnic Studies Everywhere” conference.

Teachers who chose to attend learned that “the relationship between students and educators is an oppressive one,” as a slide explained. Adult supremacy “constructs adults as developed, mature, intelligent, and experienced, based solely on their age and ensures that adults control the resources and make the decisions in society.”

Somebody has to be the grownup, as my wife likes to say.