Good LUCK! My former high school hired me to give a presentation to seniors on parenting, at their parent ed module in health class! I felt much like YOU do. I turned it around, and said they knew more about good and bad parernting than I could, because they are still BEING parented and I'm not. We went around the circle, each one saying what they had seen of good and bad parenting models in their own lives and in their friends' lives. ("What has been good about parenting you are familiar with, and what would you like to see parents do differently?") Then they shared how THEY planned to parent, and it was pretty hot stuff.

I think what you have to do is lead with all the trouble their "protest ancestors" got into for protesting, and say how they used it politically, and how their views matured over time and how their music rallied people instead of merely arousing anger... how heroes always have something positive shining through even their anger.... maybe say how the Palestinian suicide bombers are good examples of negative approaches to handling protest.

I would have a little songwriting exercise where they are challenged to take some of their issues and write (or help you write) a song about it that rallies people to a positive cause instead of parading a negativity.

~Susan