Planned walkout? Thoughts?

[Anonymous]

I wouldn’t be ok with this. The school day shouldn’t be used for protests. He can spend his weekend on a sidewalk corner protesting

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The walkouts are pointless and silly therapy / virtue signaling/ peer pressure performative actions.

I do not let kids miss school unless they are sick. If they want to protest, there are venues outside school hours where they can protest.

+1,000

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:He’s in high school. Let him be.

An “approved” walkout is kind on an oxymoron though.

Like none of you advise your high school kids. Don’t be a hypocrite.

[Anonymous]

Perhaps put pressure on the Principal to remove the caveat.
Either it is approved or not.

[Anonymous]

I am glad my children want to do the walkout. If virtue signaling means showing that they don’t approve of how this country is being run, then I’m okay with that. Do I know this one walkout won’t make an impact, YES. But I want them to know they have a voice and don’t need to blindly follow the leader when the leader is a criminal and a bully and their peers of color are at risk right now. If we all just sit back and say “well this one thing won’t make an impact” then the maga’s keep winning because they think everyone approves of them. We don’t!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The walkouts are pointless and silly therapy / virtue signaling/ peer pressure performative actions.

I do not let kids miss school unless they are sick. If they want to protest, there are venues outside school hours where they can protest.

I also have a policy that if my child feels passionately enough about something to protest on the weekend or evenings, then I'm ok with a daytime school walk out. But they need to demonstrate commitment first by protesting on non-school time, or volunteering, or similar.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand why they can’t schedule this walkout for after school ?

then its not a walkout..

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am glad my children want to do the walkout. If virtue signaling means showing that they don’t approve of how this country is being run, then I’m okay with that. Do I know this one walkout won’t make an impact, YES. But I want them to know they have a voice and don’t need to blindly follow the leader when the leader is a criminal and a bully and their peers of color are at risk right now. If we all just sit back and say “well this one thing won’t make an impact” then the maga’s keep winning because they think everyone approves of them. We don’t!

You’re kidding yourself if you think it’s anything other than an excuse to skip class and follow their peers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am glad my children want to do the walkout. If virtue signaling means showing that they don’t approve of how this country is being run, then I’m okay with that. Do I know this one walkout won’t make an impact, YES. But I want them to know they have a voice and don’t need to blindly follow the leader when the leader is a criminal and a bully and their peers of color are at risk right now. If we all just sit back and say “well this one thing won’t make an impact” then the maga’s keep winning because they think everyone approves of them. We don’t!

Wasn't it "people of color" who gunned down the two white activists in Minnesota? Pretty sure Pretti was shot by two agents of Latino heritage. Not sure about Good. And both were aggressive activists proactively interfering with Federal agents.

Anyway, even if I'm bothered with many of the ICE tactics, we have talked about all of this as a family and I'm glad to see that the kids are wise enough not to reduce it to simple ideological memes more about preferred narratives and wishcasting than a very complicated situation. I do see why kids are appealed to the simplicity of the protest messages, but ultimately it's emotional passions, not logic or truth that is at the core of the protests. So I would not be encouraging kids to skip school without a serious understanding on what they're protesting and the causes and consequences of everything surrounding it. Most of the kids are not able to do that. They're just following a TikTok meme so they can pat themselves and feel good about it.

[Anonymous]

proud of them

[Anonymous]

Did we forget the damage from “learning loss” so quickly after the end of Covid?

[Anonymous]

I posted on the other thread and am a HS teacher. I’ve never heard of a school not allowing students to come back to class when it’s over.

What I posted before, few students take walk outs seriously. Most go to miss class. Some always stay in class. I keep teaching for those who say.

A lot of students take advantage of it to skip class for longer than the intended walk out. Your kid is in HS so old enough to make this decision himself.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’d let him decide but only if he can decide between it’s really important for me to do this versus my grade instead of I’m doing this so people won’t make fun of me.

1. Is his test the very last period or earlier? If it’s earlier he could do the walk out after the test.
2. Can he ask the teacher whether he could take it earlier in the day? Maybe he skips another class. My son, in college, had a conflict between a Calc 2 test and a walk out. He asked his professor and TA if he could take the test during the 8 am period rather than his afternoon period. They said yes.

No, as a teacher I would not allow a test to be made up at a different time because of a walk out. We are specifically told not to allow this. I am extremely flexible in other situations but not making exceptions in this because it could be perceived as me participating, which is not allowed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wouldn’t be ok with this. The school day shouldn’t be used for protests. He can spend his weekend on a sidewalk corner protesting

Found the MAGA!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The walkouts are pointless and silly therapy / virtue signaling/ peer pressure performative actions.

I do not let kids miss school unless they are sick. If they want to protest, there are venues outside school hours where they can protest.

Pray tell, how are these “therapy?”

Did you mean to say cathartic? Because while they are a lot of things, therapeutic isn’t one of them.