The wisdom of children isn’t all it’s cracked up to be

Here’s an uplifting story from the vanguard of the culture war. As the New York Times reports:

‘At the Advent School in Boston, Erina Spiegelman, who is an instructional coordinator, recalled that a teacher last year asked a group of students the big question: ‘What is gender?’. The first answer came from a second-grader: ‘It’s a thing people invented to put you in a category.”

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I have a daughter that age (second grade is the equivalent of Year 3) and I love her as much as any human has loved another, but she’s not an evolutionary biologist, and for me to present her very vague understanding of such a fraught, difficult and controversial subject as some sort of font of wisdom would be sheer self-indulgence. Other people’s children are like other’s people drug stories: they really mean a lot more to you than anyone else.

Yet there seems to be this strange fixation with repeating what children say on the issue of politics as if somehow their opinions were not just as interesting as a grown adult’s, but actually more so.