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Our youth have made street, not State House, new place of honour

Demonstrators breach Parliament, June 24, 2024. [Elvis Ogina, Standard]

We call them "our children". But this description does not quite fit. When young athletes go out to compete, we do not call them children.

At the very least, we call them our ambassadors, and when they bag medals we own them as "our heroes". Saying that the Finance Bill was floored by "children" minimizes who the young people are and diminishes their accomplishments.

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