Why is MCPS radicalizing our children?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:LOL. You are so lathered up you are attacking someone who agrees with you.
Well done. In the name of teaching history you declare only facts matter. Context, analysis, and theory must be cast aside.
Well done indeed, you have just armed (pun not intended) gunner side with all they need. Just the facts.
In 2013 the prestigious Institute of Medicine estimated between 108,00 and 3 million people per year protected themselves with guns. While approximately 34,000/year were killed by gun violence. https://www.nap.edu/catalog/18319/priorities-for-research-to-reduce-the-threat-of-firearm-related-violence
It’s a fact. By your own declarations nothing else matters. How can you possibly argue we need less guns? Gun ownership saves lives. If it saves one life…
You are your own worst enemy.

Making up quotes and claiming that "they likely accurately capture his sentiments" does not provide context, analysis, nor theory.

So then our students should not study Thucydides??

We are talking about modern history. Studying made up quotes to provide "another side of the story" is simply ridiculous. That whole "other side of the story" is made up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Oh geez. I live in Montgomery County to minimize exposure to closed-minded nut jobs like OP.

First, learn to spell principal (remember in 2nd-grade spelling when they said the principal is your pal).

As Trevor Noah brilliantly pointed out, if the kids are old enough to be shot, they are old enough to have an opinion about it.

I would be furious if my child didn't participate. He saw me go to the Women's March and sees my husband and I go door to door for candidates we believe in. We aren't pawns any more than those kids are. Standing up for what you believe in is something these kids should do proudly.

I would feel like a failure if my child was too lazy to stand up for what is right.

You comparisons to abortion and religion show how little you understand. These kids aren't having someone force their way into school to make them have an abortion. They are being shot and killed. Get it? They are victims and they want to be safe.

This is an issue that directly affects them. People like you aren't smart enough or compassionate enough to protect them so they must do it themselves.

We have a uniquely unqualified crotch-grabber running the country. These kids know he doesn't care about them and they need to fight to live in a democracy or it will be taken away from them.

Except tat nobody knows what the Women's March was about, whereas kids have much more defined goal for protesting and demanding a change. I have no clue what the Women's March was about, what the goal was. Other than screeching celebrities I have no idea what the point is. This is from their website. As a woman I find this embarrassing. Is this the best we can do? Should be ask HS kids to help us out?

The mission of Women’s March is to harness the political power of diverse women and their communities to create transformative social change. Women’s March is a women-led movement providing intersectional education on a diverse range of issues and creating entry points for new grassroots activists & organizers to engage in their local communities through trainings, outreach programs and events. Women’s March is committed to dismantling systems of oppression through nonviolent resistance and building inclusive structures guided by self-determination, dignity and respect.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oh geez. I live in Montgomery County to minimize exposure to closed-minded nut jobs like OP.

First, learn to spell principal (remember in 2nd-grade spelling when they said the principal is your pal).

As Trevor Noah brilliantly pointed out, if the kids are old enough to be shot, they are old enough to have an opinion about it.

I would be furious if my child didn't participate. He saw me go to the Women's March and sees my husband and I go door to door for candidates we believe in. We aren't pawns any more than those kids are. Standing up for what you believe in is something these kids should do proudly.

I would feel like a failure if my child was too lazy to stand up for what is right.

You comparisons to abortion and religion show how little you understand. These kids aren't having someone force their way into school to make them have an abortion. They are being shot and killed. Get it? They are victims and they want to be safe.

This is an issue that directly affects them. People like you aren't smart enough or compassionate enough to protect them so they must do it themselves.

We have a uniquely unqualified crotch-grabber running the country. These kids know he doesn't care about them and they need to fight to live in a democracy or it will be taken away from them.

Except tat nobody knows what the Women's March was about, whereas kids have much more defined goal for protesting and demanding a change. I have no clue what the Women's March was about, what the goal was. Other than screeching celebrities I have no idea what the point is. This is from their website. As a woman I find this embarrassing. Is this the best we can do? Should be ask HS kids to help us out?

The mission of Women’s March is to harness the political power of diverse women and their communities to create transformative social change. Women’s March is a women-led movement providing intersectional education on a diverse range of issues and creating entry points for new grassroots activists & organizers to engage in their local communities through trainings, outreach programs and events. Women’s March is committed to dismantling systems of oppression through nonviolent resistance and building inclusive structures guided by self-determination, dignity and respect.

Then either you weren't paying attention, or you chose not to know.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oh geez. I live in Montgomery County to minimize exposure to closed-minded nut jobs like OP.

First, learn to spell principal (remember in 2nd-grade spelling when they said the principal is your pal).

As Trevor Noah brilliantly pointed out, if the kids are old enough to be shot, they are old enough to have an opinion about it.

I would be furious if my child didn't participate. He saw me go to the Women's March and sees my husband and I go door to door for candidates we believe in. We aren't pawns any more than those kids are. Standing up for what you believe in is something these kids should do proudly.

I would feel like a failure if my child was too lazy to stand up for what is right.

You comparisons to abortion and religion show how little you understand. These kids aren't having someone force their way into school to make them have an abortion. They are being shot and killed. Get it? They are victims and they want to be safe.

This is an issue that directly affects them. People like you aren't smart enough or compassionate enough to protect them so they must do it themselves.

We have a uniquely unqualified crotch-grabber running the country. These kids know he doesn't care about them and they need to fight to live in a democracy or it will be taken away from them.

Except tat nobody knows what the Women's March was about, whereas kids have much more defined goal for protesting and demanding a change. I have no clue what the Women's March was about, what the goal was. Other than screeching celebrities I have no idea what the point is. This is from their website. As a woman I find this embarrassing. Is this the best we can do? Should be ask HS kids to help us out?

The mission of Women’s March is to harness the political power of diverse women and their communities to create transformative social change. Women’s March is a women-led movement providing intersectional education on a diverse range of issues and creating entry points for new grassroots activists & organizers to engage in their local communities through trainings, outreach programs and events. Women’s March is committed to dismantling systems of oppression through nonviolent resistance and building inclusive structures guided by self-determination, dignity and respect.

Then either you weren't paying attention, or you chose not to know.

Nope, I paid attention and tried to understand, but the first march after Trump was elected was a full on temper tantrum. Embarrassing to the extreme, at that. No clear set agenda, just raving about wanting rights without pointing out how to get these rights. I proudly support my teen protesting for strict gun control, I proudly support the need for women to be treated respectfully in every sphere of work and life. I tried my best to know what that first march was about, and it was so general and vague that the only thing I could summon is that women were mad that Trump was elected. That would have been a reason enough to protest, but rather than make it what it is, protest against misogynist, they choose to have no specific demands.

[Anonymous]

I think the main focus of the women's March was protesting against Trump, a man who brags about molesting awomen, being elected and I think it was tertiarily also about empowering women to become more politically active and engaged in our political process.

[Anonymous]

I also think that the trend in protest is less about focusing on a specific piece of legislation and more about expressing attitudes. We saw that with the tea party and then it became more of a political apparatus that try to encourage "tea party candidates" to run. So we shall see what happens in 2018 and 2020 if we have more women's March type candidates running.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Except tat nobody knows what the Women's March was about, whereas kids have much more defined goal for protesting and demanding a change. I have no clue what the Women's March was about, what the goal was. Other than screeching celebrities I have no idea what the point is. This is from their website. As a woman I find this embarrassing. Is this the best we can do? Should be ask HS kids to help us out?

The mission of Women’s March is to harness the political power of diverse women and their communities to create transformative social change. Women’s March is a women-led movement providing intersectional education on a diverse range of issues and creating entry points for new grassroots activists & organizers to engage in their local communities through trainings, outreach programs and events. Women’s March is committed to dismantling systems of oppression through nonviolent resistance and building inclusive structures guided by self-determination, dignity and respect.

Just because your reading comprehension is poor, it doesn't mean that nobody can understand what the Women's March was about. My feeling is that you are a Trumpster and you didn't like the women speaking out against the pig.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:^^It's not a democracy numbnuts.. It's a republic.

yeah

This is the issue. And this is why my 8th grader sat in the classroom after her principal said they could walk out. She said half the kids in her class have no clue what's going on. So the "protest" was just a fun time for them.

sad . . .

But if adults don't know how the U. S. operates, then perhaps we need to examine why we're pushing our kids to protest.

[Anonymous]

It's sad when Trumpkins are more outraged students protesting gun violence than students being shot

[jsteele]

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