There are times you should let children vote. I do not know if you draw a line at 14 or 16 or if you let everyone of them vote, but I do wonder if there is a matter before us for which the children should be the decision-makers.
Metal detectors.
Even if we can see that metal detectors would make a difference -- even if it is evident that if most all schools had them, there would be fewer school shootings -- should we force them on the schools. After all, having metal detectors does seem the wise thing to do. Sometimes, though, what you do should not be so much a matter of what is wise, but of what is preferred.
A matter of choice, a matter of preference.
It is the students who are being affected. It is they who are at risk, and they who -- if we had more metal detectors -- must live with them. Every time they entered the building or school yard (depending on where the metal detector were placed) they would face the hassle of clearing through the metal detector.
Some students might think they'd become prisoners in their own schools.
So, let each school decide. Perhaps the school administrators make the decision, perhaps the parents do -- and perhaps some schools would let the students, themselves, cast the votes on whether to have the metal detectors.
Think of all the activism of students since the Parkland shooting. There is cause to suggest they, themselves, should make this decision.
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