I Heard That Some Schools Are Punishing Kids for Doing ICE Walk Outs - Is Your School Doing the Same?

[Anonymous]

Curious to see what other high schools are doing.

[Anonymous]

High school. A walkout is treated just like any other unexcused absence, per the student handbook. Students are left to decide on their own if it's important enough to them/worth it to them. No additional or different consequences related to the reason.

[Anonymous]

Which schools have you heard about, OP?

[Anonymous]

I'm all for pushing back against ICE, but private schools need to follow their own rules about walkouts, regardless of the topic at hand. It's a question of not being able to guarantee student safety when they're outside school property, and also about academic disruption.

[Anonymous]

Not an effective way to get the message across or enact change. You also have to teach common sense to kids.

[Anonymous]

What’s the actual goal of a walkout, on any topic? Have any walkouts ever resulted in real change? This is my issue with them. If you want to do something about something, do something that will actually make a difference.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Curious to see what other high schools are doing.

That's fine. Part of civil disobedience is accepting consequences.

[Anonymous]

My kids school had a rumor that there was a walk out planned. In the middle of the day, an announcement came debunking it and also saying it would count as truancy. This was a wcac catholic high school btw.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Which schools have you heard about, OP?

OP?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Which schools have you heard about, OP?

OP?

If the reply to the comment was the poster than “OP” stands for original poster.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Which schools have you heard about, OP?

OP?

If the reply to the comment was the poster than “OP” stands for original poster.

Post was asking if OP was going to tell which schools she “heard about.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Curious to see what other high schools are doing.

That's fine. Part of civil disobedience is accepting consequences.

+1 otherwise, it's just a school assembly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kids school had a rumor that there was a walk out planned. In the middle of the day, an announcement came debunking it and also saying it would count as truancy. This was a wcac catholic high school btw.

It is truancy; that's why it's called a walk out. That's literally the point.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What’s the actual goal of a walkout, on any topic? Have any walkouts ever resulted in real change? This is my issue with them. If you want to do something about something, do something that will actually make a difference.

Yes walkouts and protest do affect change.

[Anonymous]

Why wouldn’t the kids be punished for it? Taking the consequences of civil disobedience is part of the point. They are leaving class/campus unauthorized. Congratulations to them for standing up for what they think is important, but whether the walkout supports Israel, Palestine, anti-ICE, or anything else anywhere on the political spectrum, it’s going through get them same punishment as an unauthorized McDonald’s run, and it should.