Planned walkout? Thoughts?
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Anonymous
That has not been our experience. |
Anonymous
It has been your experience that after students walk out of class you can email the teacher and they say “yeah just for you Jonathan can make up that assignment”? Because that is the exact experience we’re discussing here. Not “do teachers generally let kids make up work” which I do. But “do teachers violate the school policy that students who participate in a walk out miss work they cannot make up later and bend on that because the parent asked them to.” Which no, most would not. |
Anonymous
Teachers proactively discussed the walk out and what the child's choices were regarding work. No one needed to be contacted by me. I can believe you are a teacher. We've met some who had been doing this too long. |
Anonymous
Another teacher here. I’m not breaking school policy. If you email me, I’m going to hold firm. It seems every teacher responding has said a variation of this. (And I’m not sure I understand your last paragraph. Did you try to insult the previous teacher? Kind of fell flat.) |
Anonymous
If you did not do this, why are you responding as if you did? The entire comment spawned from someone telling OP to email the teacher to ask could her son still do the work he would miss during the walkout because she doesn’t want him to fail. I said as a teacher I would not accede to that and treat that student as an exception to the policy. You said “that hasn’t been our experience” and then go on to admit this isn’t even something you’ve dealt with or that has applied to you at all. Huh??? If your kid walks out in protest, they are aware they might miss work. There isn’t an exception to that. If the teacher decides to halt all instruction so the kids miss nothing, that’s their choice. If they proceed with instruction and the kids miss something, the kids accept that as part of walking out. This isn’t hard. And despite your passive aggressive attempts at framing a teacher who follows this policy as a bad teacher, they aren’t. |
Anonymous
| Please name the woke schools that are doing this so everyone knows not to send their kids there to play out teachers' social justice fantasies. |
Anonymous
Every single high school in PGCPS had or are having walk outs that are organized by student government. They are well organized and the level of support from parents and the community in Facebook groups is starkly different than some of the opinions expressed here. I'm so proud that our kids are standing up for their community and expressing their first amendment rights. You might think it is a social justice fantasy but you can see that these protests are extremely meaningful to kids whose families are being targeted and detained. It may not enact change but it sends a strong signal to the student body that they are supported. |
Anonymous
Let's not forget it's the teacher's choice if something is going on in class that will impact a grade. They don't have to halt instruction, but there aren't graded assessments every day. If the teacher has a choice and decides that student's will lose grades because they are protesting ice no, they aren't a bad teacher, just a bad person. |
Anonymous
| Why aren’t the kids protesting on Saturday morning at 8 AM? Your kids are playing you. |
Anonymous
Incorrect again. my opinions about ICE are such that honestly most of you would consider it radical. But this isn’t about my politics. At my school, we already had the walkout. Some kids went. Some didn’t. I kept teaching, not because I love ICE and want to punish kids protesting ICE, but because some kids didn’t go and I can’t essentially force them into a protest by halting instruction when the protesting classmates aren’t there. Those kids didn’t walk out for whatever reason , that isn’t mine to judge, and I cannot say that basically, your learning is hostage to what kids whose politics I align with are out doing right now. Nobody is going to experience a make or break F by doing this kind of thing. At most you miss a small assignment or some instruction. If you really can’t afford that you probably shouldn’t go, but I cannot justify pausing all instruction for all kids because SOME choose to protest, even if in actuality I am on their side of the protest and also hate ICE. |
Anonymous
+1 |
Anonymous
| Chantilly announced there was a walkout today. |
Anonymous
Thank you, PP. I appreciate your response. You aren’t, as PP stated, a “bad person.” Thank you about caring about ALL CHILDREN. That’s lost in this debate, where people seem to only be worried about their own. |
Anonymous
It has not been our experience that there have been major repercussions from attending the protests. Teachers like you act like it will be a big deal. "Oh well your kid might miss something" that very rarely was the case Most teachers did not plow through with the curriculum if a majority of the class was going to be absent. This happens whether its a walk out, or a bad weather incident or illness sweeping through the school. It's a waste of their time to do so. And yes they have options. The same ones they employ when they are unexpectedly absent and have a sub. Of course I said "majority of students." Who knows what your schools are like. |
Anonymous
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I am not changing my instructional plan because some kids choose to walk out. For whatever reason. I’ve had kids protest for 2A rights and I kept teaching, and I’ve had kids protest ICE and I kept teaching. Their political action is theirs and since I’m not supposed to engage in politics at school, I am just continuing with my plans regardless.
If they miss something, I actually do want them to take that in and think about it, because if you had nothing at all to lose, you didn’t take a stand against anything, you just took a break. |