But the paper fails to show that it has properly understood why young people's voices matter. "In almost all cases where it has been tried, pupil power proves remarkably strict," it declaims.
So what? The point is not whether the editorial writer approves of the strictness of young people's decisions. It is that young people are having their say about things that matter more to them than to anyone else. That's only right and proper, whatever they decide.
Germaine Greer rubbishes the latest guidance document on teenage pregnancy issued by children's minister Beverley Hughes. Writing in The Times, she points out that the health risk for young mothers is nowhere near as high as it is for women on IVF, "but we haven't decided to halve the number of them by 2010".
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