Schools should have mood detectors instead of metal detectors, George Carter once observed. The New Orleans student, who turned 15 this year, was a founding member of Kids Rethink New Orleans Schools.
Organized in 2006 in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, the organization seeks to help young people develop a voice in society and in their schools. In 2006, a debate about school reform was swirling in the city.
“Young people were not being consulted in this,” said Thena Robinson-Mock, former executive director of Rethink.
Rethink was formed as a response to encourage kids to think critically about their environment and to become engaged in shaping it.
[For more of this story, written by Stell Simonton, go to http://jjie.org/youngsters-pus...eans-schools/108037/]
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