This week the University of South Carolina’s Admissions Office Twitter issued a statement claiming their applicants would not be affected if they chose to practice their civil right to protest.
Yale, Brown, MIT, and Dartmouth to welcome students who participate in the #Neveragain movement with open arms.
As the pressure continues to rise on lawmakers to change gun control laws for a better future, it must be said how giant the movement has become on the backs of mere teenagers.
For years, the world has dismissed Millennials and Generation X kids, claiming they were lazy, entitled, and powerless. They constantly claim they’ve attached their minds to screens and use social media as a lifeline. They view them as naïve and scared to branch out, but this movement proves them wrong.
The students of Parkland are confronting every legislator that allowed this terrible event to happen to them. The students of Parkland are not accepting what happened to them and are taking a stand against it ever happening again. Students all around America are taking control of their lives and how they live them by questioning the government that does not seem to listen to its people.
Millennials and Gen. X kids are creating an entire movement on their own, without the help or guidance of adults and it’s powerful.
Millennials have created a tough decision for the world around them; they’ve decided that they are a force to be reckoned with. They’ve created opportunities for themselves that the world constantly refuses to give to them and are no longer allowing the world to stop them.
Millennials have made the world decide whether they want to start to support the youth or get left behind.
As Millennials continue to apply pressure on the world around them, forcing change into their lives, it seems not many will choose to be left behind.