Stand up and be counted while young
Young people in Britain have been getting a pretty bad press in recent months. First of all, “youths” were blamed for the riots in city centres across the country and now a series of studies have shown that the current younger generation are lazier, achieve less and rely on their parents more than previous generations. Not the kind of headlines that are likely to motivate kids and teenagers in the UK, are they? However, for every rioting bad apple, there is always a bunch of good kids, doing amazing things that the media choose to ignore because positive stories don’t sell newspapers or make people watch TV. It’s no wonder that many people blame kids for everything when they only hear negative stories about them!
A group of young people in the north-east of England have been the source of some positive news stories in recent weeks, as they sought to bring attention to the lack of jobs and opportunities in their area through more peaceful means than a brick through the window of local shops. In some parts of this deprived region, kids don’t even have the option of a career asking “Do you want fries with that?” or working at the lower end of the public sector as a street sweeper or in a commercial window cleaning company.
So this group of kids, who clearly know their history, have followed in the footsteps of the Jarrow Marchers who walked from Newcastle to London 75 years ago to protest poverty and job losses in the north-east. OK, this junior modern equivalent only walked from Newcastle to Durham on this occasion, but the fact that they could muster enough interest for over 200 local young people to take part shows the level of political involvement and motivation amongst a group who are supposedly only interested in what they can get for themselves – if you believe the tabloid press!
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