I believe the children are the future

Well said Whitney and don’t we all agree?

Perhaps not. I heard this on the radio this morning about an am-dram club in Derby that will probably end up not using kids in their shows because they have to jump  through too many beauraucratic hoops to do so.

Then I heard this report about how kids mug for kicks where we heard how some muggings are not out of need but just for the buzz of the violence. Someone in the article suggested that these children ahd been let down by the adults around them so they took matters into their own hands.

I can’t help thinking that one of these stories is somehow symptomatic of the other. I am not suggesting that instead of puss in boots the am-dram kids will be doing gbh in boots but the more adults withdraw from working with children the more likely they are to do their own thing and we’ve all read Lord of the Flies….