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Simple solution. Fail them. Don’t attend class, you don’t pass.
I would look you dead in the eye and pee on your leg as I left.
If the choice is between failing and being shot, your bombast and authoritarianism don't bother me a bit. Go stand in the corner and beat your chest or something, and get out of the way of people trying to improve things, for you as well as them. As a teacher, you are just as subject to be the one who catches a bullet.
A school around here had a walk out, but many of the parents got angry because they claimed their kids had no ideas on what they were actually trying to accomplish thru this. One friend of mine has 2 girls at the high school, and told her girls to stay in their classrooms unless they KNEW why they were participating in the walk out.
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Originally Posted by Ceece
The majority DON'T know why they are walking out and that's the thing....people see this as some sort of "sign" that these soon to be voters are going to turn things right around! But they won't. I mean, things will change like they always do with political parties going back and forth and always talking about how the other side will never get into power again (HAHAHAHAHA) but it's not going to be because teens have suddenly become politically savvy. There is definitely a push to get them to think/vote a certain way right now though since vote-getting is what it's all about by professional politicians.
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Originally Posted by xboxmas
LOL most of these kids only want to skip/miss class, I really doubt most of them care one way or the other.
I don't know where you live or where your kids go to school, but the Parkland kids and others I've seen interviewed, sound extremely knowledgeable and articulate about this issue--much more so than the president. Dismissing and disparaging them may make you feel better, but I think you are using the usual excuses to sweep away the reality of what is happening.
Adults said the exact same thing in the 60s, and those kids changed the politics of the country and the country itself. Politicians underestimate them at their own risk.
"...The question of whether students can protest during school hours was in fact addressed by the U.S. Supreme Court nearly half a century ago. And, in light of that case, legal experts tell TIME that, because it’s so broad, the Needville policy as expressed in the Facebook message is likely unconstitutional..."
"..In 1969, the court ruled that students do not “shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate,” as Justice Abe Fortas put it in the majority opinion for Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District..."
I would look you dead in the eye and pee on your leg as I left.
If the choice is between failing and being shot, your bombast and authoritarianism don't bother me a bit. Go stand in the corner and beat your chest or something, and get out of the way of people trying to improve things, for you as well as them. As a teacher, you are just as subject to be the one who catches a bullet.
I understand you don't trust anyone but yourself around a gun.
That is the same exact reason I pack heat. I don't trust other people either.
I don't know where you live or where your kids go to school, but the Parkland kids and others I've seen interviewed, sound extremely knowledgeable and articulate about this issue--
Would you not expect them to be? They are getting graded for the drama class they all attend. They have memorized their scripted lines well by now. The show has ran for a week now, with spectacular reviews...
We had a walk out when I was in high school. They took our smoking pit away from us.
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