The Parkland Generation

Cassandra Ridder was broken-hearted when her 12-year-old son Brody came home from school last week with only a few signatures in his yearbook — including his own.

“Hope you make some more friends. — Brody Ridder,” the rising seventh-grader wrote in his own yearbook, which was signed by only two classmates, two teachers and himself.

So mom, of Colorado, posted the self-signature on Facebook. And, as it is capable of occasionally being, social media became real media.

Another parent saw the post, and sent it to her daughter, without a word. And this thoughtful generation took it from there.

Popular juniors got together and surprised Brody in his homeroom class to fill his yearbook to the margins. Then others signed. And others photographed.



Which got me thinking: What would students draft as gun legislation? Because, one day, the Parkland Generation be presiding over it.