[misja]

I'm sure that a lot is wrong with our current eduction system for teens and that giving some amount of responsibility to teens would be good. But the claim that adolescents are as good or even better than adults when it comes to decision making or responsibility is just plain wrong and there is plenty of physical evidence that disproves it.

When teens reach their adolescence, the functioning of the frontal lobe in the brain is tuned down. The frontal lobe is what gives people self control; tune it down and you become more impulsive, emotional and risk seeking. The frontal lobe only returns to its normal mode when people reach their early twenties.

Source: e.g https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/encyclopedia/content.aspx?Con...

[olau]

The source you cite does not seem credible to me. It starts out with this statement which is obviously false:

"Good judgment isn’t something they can excel in, at least not yet."

[chuckgreenman]

Would you care to provide any evidence that a publication from the University of Rochester medical center, reviewed by an MD and two RNs is not credible?