Kids walking out nationwide
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Why? What’s wrong with standing up for your beliefs?
by all means, they should, but it doesn't mean they're correct to want other rights curtailed.
Gonna be a national walking out of work day on Friday in WV, with the Herd and WVU playing on Friday afternoon.
Don’t disagree, but until both sides can learn to compromise and give up a little bit for the greater good this is going to continue to happen.
The vast majority of these kids walking out are just doing it to get out of class. Let them walkout but don't get pissed when there are consequences
This walk out is hypocrisy at its finest. If kids would be more inclusive, less clique-ish, eliminate bullying and focus on the good in people rather than their differences, maybe a few of these horrible tragedies could have been avoided. Instead, extreme peer pressure is being put on kids that don't necessarily believe that a walk out is a good idea or even makes sense. Children are being called gun nuts and worse for having a different opinion on how the situation should/could be handled. The whole thing is counterproductive at minimum and borders on a form of approved bullying.
An organized disruption of school should not be allowed. When a child enters the doorway of a school, they should be required to follow the rules set forth by the county and/or state. Think about it, a child can not go to the restroom without asking permission and being given a pass to be in the hallway, but it is acceptable for any number of them to get up and leave the school as a form of protest. In-school suspension should be handed out as they walk back in the door.
If you want to make a statement, organize and make it happen when it doesn't interfere with the educational process that schools are charged with providing. My guess is that is would never happen because it wouldn't be cool or fun to take up 17 minutes before or after school or on a Saturday/Sunday.
An organized disruption of school should not be allowed. When a child enters the doorway of a school, they should be required to follow the rules set forth by the county and/or state. Think about it, a child can not go to the restroom without asking permission and being given a pass to be in the hallway, but it is acceptable for any number of them to get up and leave the school as a form of protest. In-school suspension should be handed out as they walk back in the door.
If you want to make a statement, organize and make it happen when it doesn't interfere with the educational process that schools are charged with providing. My guess is that is would never happen because it wouldn't be cool or fun to take up 17 minutes before or after school or on a Saturday/Sunday.
just because they're wrong doesn't mean I want free speech rights compromised. who would advocate for compromising a right?
Seems everyone is advocating for compromising a right these days, problem is both sides stand on that right and neither will budge. Therefore nothing ever gets changed or accomplished because those rights are fully protected.
How long would the walk out last if they did a minute for each of the sixty million babies that have been murdered since 1973. Quick calculation says over forty one thousand days.
If it hadn't been for those republican appointed supreme court justices...
here is another one they could walk out on. More Americans died of drug overdoses in 2016 than died in the entirety of the Vietnam War — the result of the US's opioid epidemic.This is just another attempt by people in high places with an agenda using a group for their own purposes.
You mean the ones that actually respect the Constitution, most of the time anyway?
Down here in Florida the walk outs are being permitted and organized by the schools. The schools have brought in extra security to make sure everything is safe. They are scheduled by the schools for half an hour. So to assume they are disrupting anything is absurd especially in areas where the schools are equal organizers.
They already have been when the government regulated who can buys weapons (felons) and what kind.
I don't blame school kids for being concerned about school mass shootings..since they are in school, you know. I also do not expect them to have a well thought out, nuanced opinion. But there's nothing wrong with them expressing their opinion, and it should be encouraged...unless you support raising sheeple and automotons.
Maybe they can also take a minute for the 100 million killed by the US government since its inception, by genocide, slavery, war, and promoting and funding international conflict.
exactly what i told my kids. told them they needed to think about whatever it is that was being protested. hell, they really didn't know for sure what the protest was. my son indicated the protest was "for gun control". shit, RD, can you imagine any school in this part of the state protesting "for gun control"? big LOL! anyhoo, told them to not be sheeple, decide for themselves if they believed in whatever was being protested. if they did, join in. if they didn't, don't. i also let them know that nationwide it was about protesting gun violence in schools, not "for gun control".
our high school pulled one over on them to avoid the obvious coming conflict as a result of students not knowing what they were actually protesting and having some protest and some refusing to . . . they had a fire alarm. lulz.
I pray for peace and love for all men and women. I encourage you and others to join in, it’s the only way to surely change hearts and minds.
Perhaps these schools that are helping organize the walk outs (according to Buckeye) should actually, idk, educate the children about the influences that play a part in the mental breakdown of mass shooters. Encourage the process of actually forming a nuanced opinion instead of acting like the sheeple and automorons and just following along. If they want to be grown up enough to behave as adults and use their voice, perhaps they should actually understand what exactly can be done about the issue and enact some of the simple changes in their own hallways and lunchrooms.
Yes they already did. The schools were fully endorsing it. My neices and nephews back in Ohio had the exact same set up at their school. Students choosing not to participate were given a 30 minute study hall during that time.
Wow. I just see it as a disruption to what is supposed to be going while children are at school. Again, I have no issue with the idea of this. Just that it is taking away from instruction time when more than likely, those involved wouldn't be doing it on their own time.
Am I the only one that finds it amazing that Sistersville's threads always go viral? (not including the youtube ones dedicated to Rifle)
Update:
So my kid comes home from middle school today and tells me the following....
A majority of the kids did indeed walk out today. In her particular classroom, she and 3 others remained in class. After the disruption was over, and the kids came back in class, those that chose to "protest" start showing each other the videos and snaps they made of each other (playing on their damn phones during school hours) having a good time and acting like fools. Then the principal gets on the intercom and chokes up/borderline cries while telling them how proud she was....
Here's my question, will this idiot principal (and teachers) be proud of these little morons when/if they decide the school lunches suck and decide to disrupt the school day to walk out. What will happen if they do and nothing changes (because it won't) so they decide to do it once or twice a week. Where is the line drawn as to what is acceptable (and praised) vs. what is being disruptive and potentially worth handing out punishments?
So my kid comes home from middle school today and tells me the following....
A majority of the kids did indeed walk out today. In her particular classroom, she and 3 others remained in class. After the disruption was over, and the kids came back in class, those that chose to "protest" start showing each other the videos and snaps they made of each other (playing on their damn phones during school hours) having a good time and acting like fools. Then the principal gets on the intercom and chokes up/borderline cries while telling them how proud she was....
Here's my question, will this idiot principal (and teachers) be proud of these little morons when/if they decide the school lunches suck and decide to disrupt the school day to walk out. What will happen if they do and nothing changes (because it won't) so they decide to do it once or twice a week. Where is the line drawn as to what is acceptable (and praised) vs. what is being disruptive and potentially worth handing out punishments?
Enough whining about the kids. If these very same kids were protesting in the exact same way at the very same location and at the very same time to support the 2nd amendment, you'd be telling us how the kids were brought up right and are patriots.
You are wrong about this. You can not speak for me regarding this, or nearly anything else, based on my years of reading your nonsense on this board.
Unfortunately teachers (in WV) have shown they care little about walking off the job. Why stop kids from walking out??
No reason to believe they have the slightest understanding this is the type of act which creates/reinforces the “sheeple” phenomena.
No reason to believe they have the slightest understanding this is the type of act which creates/reinforces the “sheeple” phenomena.
The kids don’t have the “right” to do that either during school time.
Better yet, let someone start that movement and watch how fast it gets shut down.
No, I'm not wrong about this. I don't need to know you personally to recognize a whiny conservative complaining about kids who do things they disagree with. They are doing NOTHING to harm you or themselves.
Not really get your ass back in class and the school leader should not be condoning it let alone nearly becoming emotional over it.
that is what is wrong with these young brains of mush today. I bet 90% of them walked out just to walk out and don't even give a shit.
This is about doing things in their proper time and place. This is about following the rules. This is about understanding that in the real world, sometimes you can’t do what you want, when you want, how you want. Sometimes there are consequences for your actions in the real world, even if they aren’t harming me or themselves.
I understand that isn’t the fantasyland you reside in.
You cons really love the first amendment as long as you agree with the content of what's being said, otherwise you incessantly whine about it.
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