If the average kid was hit on the head with the knowledge of how adults handle today's world, it would probably look like the guy in the avatar.
Truth is, students are as sensible, as capable and should have as much right if not more to say how tomorrow's world will look like. International organizations are increasingly supporting this notion, but it is nothing more than a notion. Youth even from the most developed and democratically active countries are literally sleeping. And almost nobody takes the exceptions seriously. Should they?