Why is MCPS radicalizing our children?

[Anonymous]

OP. Relax. Not everything is worthy of outrage. No one is indoctrinating your precious little one. When we aren't in DC, we live in a fairly rural Mississippi county. Our high school here is allowing protest. And this is FAR from a liberal area. It's ok.

Are you the same person outraged over transgender people?

[Anonymous]

Are you scared of the next generation, op? Afraid that maybe as they come of age under the fear of mass shootings, that maybe they will be the voting block that is needed to get real reform on gun control done?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:High school kids are protesting getting shot while at school. No one is radicalizing them. They are afraid for their lives.

Well that's a problem isn't it because children are far more likely to be killed in a motor vehicle than they are in a school. In fact there are many things much more likely to kill them than 'gun violence in a school'.

However I agree there are many things that can be done to make children even safer than they are in school... but leaving school to go protest something is not one of them.

Didn't some child get assaulted last year going to one of these activist school condoned protests??

So, you're only allowed to address the single cause most likely to kill you?

Since heart disease is more common than cancer, does that mean I should stop encouraging my kid to wear sunscreen or donating to cancer research?

Since more people die of stroke than of childhood diseases, should I stop immunizing?

I can care about multiple issues. I can support things like seatbelts and DUI enforcement and graduated licensing, and childhood immunizations, and gun control.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:High school kids are protesting getting shot while at school. No one is radicalizing them. They are afraid for their lives.

Well that's a problem isn't it because children are far more likely to be killed in a motor vehicle than they are in a school. In fact there are many things much more likely to kill them than 'gun violence in a school'.

However I agree there are many things that can be done to make children even safer than they are in school... but leaving school to go protest something is not one of them.

Didn't some child get assaulted last year going to one of these activist school condoned protests??

Yea, kids used to routinely die in car accidents, so we developed car seats and created laws about using them. Now, these kids rightfully want lawmakers to create laws limiting the sale of high-capacity, fast-firing weapons that are used to kill dozens of people in minutes. No one is radicalizing them. They are demanding protections from the adults around them.

+1

[Anonymous]

I don't have a problem with it.

Sorry, OP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DD informed me that her HS is having a walk out to protest 'gun violence'?

She says all the high schools are doing it and now its her school's turn.

So we pay taxes so MCPS can advance political agendas and allow our children to be used as Post-Modernist Marxist Leftwing propaganda pieces?

Call MCPS and let them know they best not condone this activist nonsense and ensure they hold each child accountable. Someone walks out, its an unexcused absence bar none.

I know most of MoCo is anti-2nd Amendment, but that matters not. Would we allow our children to walk out to protest abortion? No. Protest the Pro-Life movement?? No. Protest Islam? No. Protest Christianity? No. Protest atheism? No.

Right or left no one supports 'gun violence'. Still how many murders are committed in DC, Baltimore, etc etc year after year and nary a peep. Why, because there is no political traction to be gained from protesting those murders. But a school shooter... Ka-ching, time to cash in.

Teaching kids its OK to go protest whatever their heart desires (or worse, whatever pet issue school administrators support) irrespective of their responsibilities just infantilizes our children.
Dont like something, have a temper tantrum. You feel wronged... have a hissy fit. A teacher tells you its cool, go beak the law.

Look, most kids can't even clean their bedroom, yet schools teach them they can go out protest to solve all the worlds complex problems? Nonsense. Children need to learn they have duties and responsibilities and are held accountable to them. They need to go school, study hard, work hard, be something no just become the unthinking passive street rabble tool of agitators.

Then when they make something of their life, they can dedicate it to making the world a better place but they'll only be successful if they can take care of themselves first. That our schools have lost track of this is so very disappointing.

I've already called our principle to voice my concern, please if you agree with me do so as well. Our children need to grow into responsible adults to allow their full individuality to bloom , let's not allow them to be used as pawns.

I bet you are so much fun at a party!

[Anonymous]

Get a life cupcake.

[Anonymous]

It teaches something far more important (more important than this issue, or any particular issue), it teaches students that they are empowered, that their voice and actions matter. It teaches them to be civic minded - whether supporting this issue or protesting against it. That is the lesson, Op.

[Anonymous]

Did you miss the news story about the high school getting shot up last month, op? Why do you think these kids are pawns? They go through active shooter drills every year. They literally fear for their lives in school. Why do you think this is coming from an outside influence? This is of their own doing.

[Anonymous]

It's because they are standing up for their RIGHTs as high school students to go to school without being Shot to Death. That is why.

[Anonymous]

I think it's awesome these kids are expressing their views, and don't believe MCPS has anything to do with it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Oh, I miss Montgomery County - signed, couldn't afford and moved to NoVa

Nova is more expensive. If you want to call OP a troll you have to come up with something better than this.

[Anonymous]

Hi OP! I disagree with you, but I'd love to change the tone on this board. So I'm just going to send good wishes your way and say that we come at this one from different perspectives.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

I've already called our principle to voice my concern, please if you agree with me do so as well. Our children need to grow into responsible adults to allow their full individuality to bloom , let's not allow them to be used as pawns.

I agree with you, OP. Which is why I agree with the student protests. The way you become a responsible, involved member of society is to start being a responsible, involved member of society.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:High school kids are protesting getting shot while at school. No one is radicalizing them. They are afraid for their lives.

Well that's a problem isn't it because children are far more likely to be killed in a motor vehicle than they are in a school. In fact there are many things much more likely to kill them than 'gun violence in a school'.

However I agree there are many things that can be done to make children even safer than they are in school... but leaving school to go protest something is not one of them.

Didn't some child get assaulted last year going to one of these activist school condoned protests??

Actually that’s not true anymore. As of 2015, gun violence is killing as many people as car accidents. My McPS kindergarten student came home today to tell me about the lockdown drill he will be having on Friday. He is 5 years old. I am proud of students who choose to protest the status quo.