Shout-out to the BCC kids!
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Anonymous
Show me articles about students in MoCo walking out of school when Obama was droning American citizens, imprisoning journalists, forcing whistleblowers like Snowden to flee to another country, and deporting 3 million people. They never did because they’re…wait for it…brainwashed and only care about civil rights abuses or migrant rights when the other team is in power. They think they’re fighting the power but only “fight the power” when it doesn’t offend their rich white liberal parents’ sensibilities. That’s not brave at all. Leading a walk out in deep red Mississippi over ICE violations would be brave. Leading a walk out in a far left school district a vast majority of parents and teachers support you is not brave. Sorry. |
Anonymous
| For all of you “schools are indoctrinating our kids” folks, if your kids are so apt and so quick to adopt the qualities and opinions of their teachers, what does that say about you as a parent? I don’t know about you but if a stranger had a bigger influence on shaping my child than I did I would have to do a lot of thinking about why my kids clearly don’t respect me. |
Anonymous
I mean I go to Church every Sunday and consider myself to be a fairly strong and well meaning Christian. Because of my fundamental beliefs in Christianity, I believe and understand that all of my neighbors and community deserves my love and support regardless of their race, gender, sexual orientation, and immigration status. Basic human decency should not be a political talking point and frankly as a Christian I am disgusted that it has become one. |
Anonymous
In my household I try not to *indoctrinate* my children. I always say get as many viewpoints as you can and decide what is better for you. |
Anonymous
here is a small sample of things MoCo HS students protested during the Biden years: Hundreds of MCPS students walk out in protest of district’s handling of COVID-19 https://bethesdamagazine.com/2022/01/24/hundreds-of-mcps-students-walk-out-in-protest-of-districts-handling-of-covid-19/ Northwood Students Walk Out to Protest Delayed Facilities https://www.mymcmedia.org/northwood-students-walk-out-to-protest-delayed-facilities/ MSP, BSU rally, raise awareness of racism in MCPS https://www.thesentinel.com/communities/msp-bsu-rally-raise-awareness-of-racism-in-mcps/article_8a1547a4-8e5e-11ef-808b-1f3d044dcfe8.html Walt Whitman High School students walk out in protest of antisemitic graffiti https://www.fox5dc.com/video/1157895 Students Pen Letters Calling for Ceasefire in Palestine https://www.mymcmedia.org/students-pen-letters-calling-for-ceasefire-in-palestine/ RM students hold walkout to advocate for gun control https://thermtide.com/16719/popular/rm-students-hold-walkout-to-advocate-for-gun-control/ It’s Really Disheartening’: Walter Johnson Students Stage Walk-Out In Response to Racist, Homophobic Graffiti https://www.mymcmedia.org/its-really-disheartening-walter-johnson-students-stage-walk-out-in-response-to-racist-homophobic-graffiti/ As a BCC neighbor, I have frequently seen protests - peace rallies on the corner lead by teacher Coleman McCarthy ( long before Trump), Black Lives Matter protests, gun control protests (many MoCo students went to March for Our Lives and some even helped organize it), and, of course, DMV students collectively (organized by Wilson HS but with contingents from HS in MD and DC both public and private, were the first US citizens to protest Trump immediately after his first election and before the Women’s March…. https://wtop.com/dc/2016/11/protests-continue-hundreds-dc-students-walk-class-rally-trump/ The comparison you give to prove that the MoCo students are driven by liberal prejudice against Trump is a bit inapposite - Obama drone policy, journalist arrests and Snowden, while arguably civil rights or law of war violations, are violations against a small number of people often far away about issues that are executive-driven making it hard to get mass support and hard to target mass support in a way that would matter electorally. While I think drone policy (which started under Bush and was maintained and expanded in someways under Obama) is a civil rights and law of war violation, it is an expansion that has happened under Democratic and Republican administrations and was wildly expanded under Trump in the form of drone strikes on non-combatant alleged drug running boats in international waters. No one - adults nor students - has protested any of that. As is common with foreign policy issues short of outright war, citizen engagement is low and most of the “protest” against these policies happen in policy, advocacy, legislative and diaspora communities. Students did not protest Obama deportation policy like they are protesting Trump deportation policy, because OFC, deportation in the Obama administration was largely done within the confines of the rule of law while giving people notice and opportunity to contest. What students (and adults) are protesting today is not the deportation itself but rather the manner in which it is being done - in contravention of the Constitution, without judicial warrants, without notice, with no opportunity to contest, without an opportunity to consult an attorney, and in a way that is disappearing deportees and forcing them to live in inhumane conditions without adequate access to food, medical care and basic heat and sleep, and when deportees are able to get into court USDOJ attorneys are lying or misrepresenting facts and flouting judicial orders (in many dozens of cases). Additionally, people are protesting the scope of Trump’s deportation. Trump ran on deporting “criminal” immigrants, but when he got into office, it became apparent that he wanted to deport all immigrants - many of whom turned out to be longstanding pillars of communities, little innocent children or spouses or parents of US citizens. The fact that Republicans don’t see this difference is going to be their downfall. I have no doubt if the Trump Administration had stuck to deporting convicted criminals, they would have succeeded. But instead they let their inner racism flag fly by characterizing all immigrants as criminal merely by nature of their immigration, whether done in accordance with legal process or not, and then empowering ICE to use force and violence to detain anyone with brown skin or a foreign accent without other probable cause or reasonable suspicion of a crime - a tactic we should not forget was blessed by Justice Kavanaugh himself (may he go down ignominiously in history as both a sexual assault accused and a racist). The Trump Administrations own actions have created a tremendous backlash. Blaming the backlash on snowflake liberals is just abusive DARVO tactics - Deny, Attack, Reverse, Victim and Offender. |
Anonymous
LMAO hilarious |
Anonymous
| Dropping by to clown on the fash trash scared of high schoolers speaking up, and on OP who thinks it's cool to play coy about a public event and subtexting to teenagers on a mom board. |
Anonymous
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Seneca Valley is having a school supported/authorized demonstration event today. Students were allowed to leave and walk out the front door and stay on school property and come back in the back door to the cafeteria for a 20 minute student led discussion.
They will get unexcused absences for missing 3rd period but are allowed to make up all missed assignments and lessons. |
Anonymous
That's not exactly school supportive. Our school did that and a bunch of kids didn't come back and there were all kinds of issues. I'd be pissed if my kids skipped class. They can protest on their own time. |