This week, I sat and watched a podcast....where about 30 seconds into it....the comedian spoke to the idea that kids never change their minds. He tried to be cynical and suggest studies exist that say kids never (ever) change their minds.
I sat for a moment and felt amused.
You could evaluate a hundred kids on one-hundred subjects, and find over a one-year period....99-percent changed their position or mind on each and every subject.
Chief reason? I'd say it goes to limited information, accepting some facts at face value, and going with one conclusion only because Teacher X said it was the right conclusion.
Resolving or fixing this? Maybe if you sat down and discussed reasoning and logic with a 12-year old kid....it might create some filters where face-value situations are tossed to the side and questions filter out the crappy angles to problems. But we don't seem that interested in creating mini-Socrates/Plato folks.