Last week, I wrote a blog post about the Teen Task Force that Gov. Rell is appointing to address issues of teen driving. I commented about the task force being made up of the same old political figures and commented,

Perhaps if we adults spent a little more time listening to teenagers, they wouldn’t need to spend as much time doing stupid things like drinking and driving or driving to fast. I guess it seemed that way to me thirty years ago, and it still seems that way to me today.

I’m not the only person to make these sort of observations. In an email to one list, Patrick Rossiter observed,

I see the State of Connecticut has once again taken the bull by the horns. Of course the problem is they never seem to grab the right bull. Now maybe it’s just me and I’m not afraid of teen-agers, but if I wanted to develop more effective ways to convince teens to drive safer, I think I might talk to some teens

Patrick is much more qualified to make this observation than I am. Patrick is the Program Manager of The Connecticut Youth Forum. This is a gathering of youth that meets every month to discuss issues that matter to them. Their next meeting in Tuesday at 3:30 at Simsbury High School. At Patrick’s invitation, I plan on attending their forum tomorrow. Mostly, I’ll be there to listen, something too few of us do, and when we do, we do it too rarely.

Will I have a post about this tomorrow evening? Will I convince others to attend? Can we get CT Youth Forum to expand, do stuff around New Haven and other parts of the state? We’ll see.