Remind your kids to go Protest

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Anonymous wrote:You know what my biggest take on all of this is? The sheer naïvety of grown adults who a) believe this is all real, b) who champion it without any critical thought and c) who promote it without any investigation or research. Literally blows my mind.

I'll admit I'm tempted to drive past the closest (to me) school on that list at the time they are protesting and see what's up...

Is creeping on teenagers something you do often?

How is it "creeping on teenagers" to see if a protest is occurring? By your standards, the news outlets reporting and anyone watching/reading the coverage is also "creeping."

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Anonymous wrote:I wonder why walking out in the middle of class to protest is ok (and will be excused by the school) but walking out in the middle of class to use the restroom is not (at least not at my kid's school?)

Where is the proof schools are excusing it? Has anyone gotten communication about it from their school and shared here? I have yet to see it.

DD's school is doing it during times when the kids don't have class, and the school is essentially supporting it.

My opinion is that I don't think it's necessarily good for the schools to excuse it. I think that if you are going to protest and resist, some sacrifice comes along with it and if that's an unexcused absence, so be it. On the other hand it would really suck if there were teachers who wouldn't let you take a test or something if that's when the protest was.

They aren't protesting the school. They are protesting the bigoted governor, Youngkin.

Why should the school punish them for supporting vulnerable people?

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Anonymous wrote:This link goes to the proposed policy:

https://doe.virginia.gov/support/gender-diversity/2022-model-policies-on-the-privacy-dignity-and-respect-for-all-students-town-hall.pdf

Have you read it? Has your child read and understood the whole thing?

The percentage of kids walking out of class today who have actually read this proposed policy, is probably close to zero.

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Anonymous wrote:I wonder why walking out in the middle of class to protest is ok (and will be excused by the school) but walking out in the middle of class to use the restroom is not (at least not at my kid's school?)

LOL! Yes, good question!
I guess they don't have a constitutional right to use the bathroom.

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Anonymous wrote:I wonder why walking out in the middle of class to protest is ok (and will be excused by the school) but walking out in the middle of class to use the restroom is not (at least not at my kid's school?)

Where is the proof schools are excusing it? Has anyone gotten communication about it from their school and shared here? I have yet to see it.

APS school policy allows students to attend 1 or 2 ( I don't recall which) of these student walk-outs/protests a year without any demerits on their attendance record.

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Anonymous wrote:I wonder why walking out in the middle of class to protest is ok (and will be excused by the school) but walking out in the middle of class to use the restroom is not (at least not at my kid's school?)

Where is the proof schools are excusing it? Has anyone gotten communication about it from their school and shared here? I have yet to see it.

DD's school is doing it during times when the kids don't have class, and the school is essentially supporting it.

My opinion is that I don't think it's necessarily good for the schools to excuse it. I think that if you are going to protest and resist, some sacrifice comes along with it and if that's an unexcused absence, so be it. On the other hand it would really suck if there were teachers who wouldn't let you take a test or something if that's when the protest was.

They aren't protesting the school. They are protesting the bigoted governor, Youngkin.

Why should the school punish them for supporting vulnerable people?

Then why do it at/during school? Do it on a Friday night or Saturday afternoon. Of course they won't, because the only thing that would disrupt is their social life.

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Anonymous wrote:I wonder why walking out in the middle of class to protest is ok (and will be excused by the school) but walking out in the middle of class to use the restroom is not (at least not at my kid's school?)

Where is the proof schools are excusing it? Has anyone gotten communication about it from their school and shared here? I have yet to see it.

DD's school is doing it during times when the kids don't have class, and the school is essentially supporting it.

My opinion is that I don't think it's necessarily good for the schools to excuse it. I think that if you are going to protest and resist, some sacrifice comes along with it and if that's an unexcused absence, so be it. On the other hand it would really suck if there were teachers who wouldn't let you take a test or something if that's when the protest was.

They aren't protesting the school. They are protesting the bigoted governor, Youngkin.

Why should the school punish them for supporting vulnerable people?

Then why do it at/during school? Do it on a Friday night or Saturday afternoon. Of course they won't, because the only thing that would disrupt is their social life.

They are doing it at school because Youngkin’s policy affects the school environment. It’s a state decision that impacts at the local level. Don’t be so dense.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This link goes to the proposed policy:

https://doe.virginia.gov/support/gender-diversity/2022-model-policies-on-the-privacy-dignity-and-respect-for-all-students-town-hall.pdf

Have you read it? Has your child read and understood the whole thing?

The percentage of kids walking out of class today who have actually read this proposed policy, is probably close to zero.

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The percentage of parents whose kids walk out of class today who have actually read this proposed policy and not just glanced at headlines and read a snippet of news story is probably close to zero.

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Proud of my kids for not protesting today

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Anonymous wrote:Proud of my kids for not protesting today

Do you know for sure they didn't? Maybe they just told you they didn't but actually did. 'cause maybe they think you'd be upset if they did something like that. Like some LGBQT+ kids think their parents would be upset if they knew the truth...

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t get it. They will be protesting during school hours? And the schools are encouraging it?

I'm sorry do you not know the constitution?

Peaceful protest is part of civics clearly MAGA IDIOTS can not read, have not taken civics in school or if they did too stupid to understand.

PEACEFUL PROTEST.

I think you view politics as black and white. Not everyone fits neatly in the boxes you have drawn. I did not vote for Donald Trump. I am Muslim. I am a democrat. I am anti-war. I believe in Medicare for All. I support unions. What I don’t support is teachers telling kids to go protest or hinting they should. If a student wants to attend a protest that’s fine. It’s that student’s constitutional right to do so. The problem is when a figure of authority like a teacher encourages her students to protest, there will be some students who will not want to. These students may not feel comfortable saying no because they know their teacher wants them to do so.

It's why Youngkin won. If you do anything to object to the far left of

the party (like object to kids being unnecessarily locked out of school in 20-21), you're a Trump supporter. People just vote for Youngkin to throw the far left of the party out of power.

Yes. My entire mosque has been up in arms about the situation. People are freaking out that democrats will take their kids away from them if they don’t agree with the new gender ideology. So they view their Youngkin vote as supporting the lesser of two evils. These are ppl who tend to vote Democrat and view Republicans as racists.

To be clear, I did not vote for Youngkin. I believe his policies will harm Virginians. But this is what I have observed.

Where on earth does anyone get the idea that any elected Democrat wants to take anyone’s kids away? Just no basis whatsoever. Wish I could say the same thing for Republicans, whose record includes not only the former president’s disastrous policy of separating children at the border, but also the Texas governor and AG doing their darndest to steal trans kids from their parents.

Muslims saw what happened with the Muslim family in WA state. The poor parents had to play along to get their kid out of the situation, then uprooted their lives and moved to Texas to protect their son

Texas is the last place you want to go to protect a transgender child.

More bigots there than VA.

The state was stripping the parents of their rights.

Texas? They don't believe in rights unless you're a white cisgender Christian male.

Can someone explain the context of this? What happened to the Muslim family in Washington state and why did they leave to Texas?

I think we need to leave race out of the issue. As I said previously, a lot of Muslims would agree with the “cis white male” perspective. This makes more sense if you don’t use race to analyze support/lack of support for gender affirming policies. In addition, many feminists agree with what is deemed the “cis white male” perspective.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm a travel coach in an extremely competitive sport in Alexandria. Any kid I hear attending any protest on this will be cut. I'll fudge the reason but make no mistake- your kid's athletic future is toast.

You’re either a soccer or lacrosse coach.

No one cares what a lax coach thinks. If you’re an ASA coach, you have zero authority to do this and will get sued. Now it’s online for everyone to see. Moron.

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The "coach" doesn't have any authority but likes to pretend like she does on DCUM. Kinda funny actually.

You have no idea what you are talking about. I cut a kid once because his dad was an obnoxious loudmouth who thought he knew more about baseball then we did.

I promise you, if the coach doesn't want your kid on the team, the 'reason' is irrelevent.

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Anonymous wrote:I wonder why walking out in the middle of class to protest is ok (and will be excused by the school) but walking out in the middle of class to use the restroom is not (at least not at my kid's school?)

Where is the proof schools are excusing it? Has anyone gotten communication about it from their school and shared here? I have yet to see it.

DD's school is doing it during times when the kids don't have class, and the school is essentially supporting it.

My opinion is that I don't think it's necessarily good for the schools to excuse it. I think that if you are going to protest and resist, some sacrifice comes along with it and if that's an unexcused absence, so be it. On the other hand it would really suck if there were teachers who wouldn't let you take a test or something if that's when the protest was.

They aren't protesting the school. They are protesting the bigoted governor, Youngkin.

Why should the school punish them for supporting vulnerable people?

Then why do it at/during school? Do it on a Friday night or Saturday afternoon. Of course they won't, because the only thing that would disrupt is their social life.

They are doing it at school because Youngkin’s policy affects the school environment. It’s a state decision that impacts at the local level. Don’t be so dense.

Exactly.

Youngkin is going to hurt kids at these schools.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wonder why walking out in the middle of class to protest is ok (and will be excused by the school) but walking out in the middle of class to use the restroom is not (at least not at my kid's school?)

Where is the proof schools are excusing it? Has anyone gotten communication about it from their school and shared here? I have yet to see it.

DD's school is doing it during times when the kids don't have class, and the school is essentially supporting it.

My opinion is that I don't think it's necessarily good for the schools to excuse it. I think that if you are going to protest and resist, some sacrifice comes along with it and if that's an unexcused absence, so be it. On the other hand it would really suck if there were teachers who wouldn't let you take a test or something if that's when the protest was.

They aren't protesting the school. They are protesting the bigoted governor, Youngkin.

Why should the school punish them for supporting vulnerable people?

Then why do it at/during school? Do it on a Friday night or Saturday afternoon. Of course they won't, because the only thing that would disrupt is their social life.

They are doing it at school because Youngkin’s policy affects the school environment. It’s a state decision that impacts at the local level. Don’t be so dense.

Exactly.

Youngkin is going to hurt kids at these schools.

Having parents excluded from such an important decisions in a minor's lives hurts minors even more.

As Thomas Harrell said: "There are no solutions, there are only trade-offs."

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Anonymous wrote:I wonder why walking out in the middle of class to protest is ok (and will be excused by the school) but walking out in the middle of class to use the restroom is not (at least not at my kid's school?)

Where is the proof schools are excusing it? Has anyone gotten communication about it from their school and shared here? I have yet to see it.

DD's school is doing it during times when the kids don't have class, and the school is essentially supporting it.

My opinion is that I don't think it's necessarily good for the schools to excuse it. I think that if you are going to protest and resist, some sacrifice comes along with it and if that's an unexcused absence, so be it. On the other hand it would really suck if there were teachers who wouldn't let you take a test or something if that's when the protest was.

They aren't protesting the school. They are protesting the bigoted governor, Youngkin.

Why should the school punish them for supporting vulnerable people?

Then why do it at/during school? Do it on a Friday night or Saturday afternoon. Of course they won't, because the only thing that would disrupt is their social life.

They are doing it at school because Youngkin’s policy affects the school environment. It’s a state decision that impacts at the local level. Don’t be so dense.

Exactly.

Youngkin is going to hurt kids at these schools.

Having parents excluded from such an important decisions in a minor's lives hurts minors even more.

As Thomas Harrell said: "There are no solutions, there are only trade-offs."

No, that just hurts parent’s feelings. The schools are there to teach and support the kids. Not their parents.