Friday 60 La Conner High School students graduate, a great accomplishment and the real start, certainly not the end, of their education.

Four times editorials on this page have saluted and extolled La Conner’s graduates, lifting them up as the hope of the world, pointing out the monumental challenges all adults are facing and extolling them to be brave and sensitive and thoughtful and to peer into the future to find a sane, sustainable world that their elders have refused to grasp.

Not this year. This year, it is graduates, be aware. High schoolers already know too much of the present mom...