If teachers strike nationally, could they bring the NRA to its knees?

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Oh good. Let’s fire the teachers. I’d support that. Most of them are worthless anyway.

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Teachers can be reprimanded for even using work email to lobby the school board. My entire career I've known we shouldn't present our own political views in class. That's one of the biggest things people complain about,teachers politicizing their classroom, yet you think it's ok now to pull a group of second graders out of class in protest?

The teachers aren't pulling the second-graders out of class. The teachers are pulling themselves out of class. Who will supervise the second-graders? Well, if I were a school administrator, I'd start making plans.

Even in that case, using the school day in protest, won't go over well.

Of course it won't go over well. Since when are protests about keeping people happy and making life easier for those with whom you disagree?

No one is suggesting pulling second graders out of class. If you're a teacher and you are in favor of the NRA an unfettered access to guns, then don't walk out on that day. Easy peasy.

Nice spin.
I'm a teacher. I don't favor unfettered access to guns. I also don't favor walking out of class.

+1 PP trying to twist your comments,

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You don’t want to strike or walk out? You must be an NRA supporter and guns for all! (???)

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Anonymous wrote:Explain the logic? How or why would the NRA care? Maybe politicians would care? I really want to support this but it needs to be effective. Help me!

The NRA will never care. But congress might.

I'm not OP, but my idea would be that the teachers would continue to do childcare in the classrooms but refuse to actually teach. Since an uneducated population affects everyone (not just parents and students), theoretically the government should care about it. Was that what you had in mind, OP?

Congress and Paul Ryan are 100% to blame.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't want my kid's teachers to strike. He's a senior and has five AP exams to prepare for.

And I don't think it will make one bit of difference if they strike. It's not going to make our so-called representatives care.

Or maybe it will push parents like you, who care about AP classes for your kid, to take some ACTION. YOU should be striking. YOU should be doing something.

NP here - I am going to March, because I am happy to fight against the current gun crazy culture, but I can’t teach my DC AP Chem. Would rather we all do what we can do best. Teachers not teaching students isn’t going to help. We need parents to step up.

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Anonymous wrote:I’d support that and be willing to take my vacation to watch other people’s kids who didn’t have coverage

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I proudly live in a neighborhood that would coordinate childcare

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+2 as do I, for out elementary school kids.

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Anonymous wrote:I’d support that and be willing to take my vacation to watch other people’s kids who didn’t have coverage

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I proudly live in a neighborhood that would coordinate childcare

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+2 as do I, for out elementary school kids.

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[Anonymous]

You do realize that the NRA has a HUGE membership?

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So let's all give up? No thanks. The NEA has a huge membership too.

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For all the supporters of this common sense move, Happy February 19th! You're clearly feeling inspired by FDR's legacy!

Seventy-four years ago today Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, leading to the imprisonment of over 100,000 persons of Japanese ancestry (as well as thousands of German and Italian ancestry) for the duration of World War II.

It was for "the children".

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Anonymous wrote:I don't want my kid's teachers to strike. He's a senior and has five AP exams to prepare for.

And I don't think it will make one bit of difference if they strike. It's not going to make our so-called representatives care.

Or maybe it will push parents like you, who care about AP classes for your kid, to take some ACTION. YOU should be striking. YOU should be doing something.

NP here - I am going to March, because I am happy to fight against the current gun crazy culture, but I can’t teach my DC AP Chem. Would rather we all do what we can do best. Teachers not teaching students isn’t going to help. We need parents to step up.

Oh, I'm sure all the attorneys will leave their billable hours on the table and join the strike.

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Anonymous wrote:Explain the logic? How or why would the NRA care? Maybe politicians would care? I really want to support this but it needs to be effective. Help me!

The NRA will never care. But congress might.

I'm not OP, but my idea would be that the teachers would continue to do childcare in the classrooms but refuse to actually teach. Since an uneducated population affects everyone (not just parents and students), theoretically the government should care about it. Was that what you had in mind, OP?

What the hell? This wouldn't make any difference at all. That wouldn't even raise a blip among the decision makers, and the kids would still be warehoused in the holding pen for 11 years a day just like most parents want. And it would make teachers feel utterly shitty. Can you imagine keeping kids in the holding pen all day just watching movies or coloring? And teachers just trying to hold it together?

My god. What a stupid idea.

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*hours, not years. But it may as well be years.

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As a teacher, I think this would be a moment that would live in the lives of my students forever. I think they'd be profoundly changed.

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https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/florida-gun-control-march_us_5a8988b3e4b00bc49f451f44?utm_campaign=hp_fb_pages&utm_source=main_fb&utm_medium=facebook&ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000063

The survivors of the Florida shooting are organizing this march on Washington for March 24-hopefully a combination of student and teacher action can bring about change.

A group of students who survived the Wednesday mass shooting at a Florida high school is organizing a nationwide march to demand lawmakers make ending gun violence a priority.

The “March For Our Lives” is planned for March 24 in Washington, D.C., with sister marches expected to break out in other major cities across the country, five students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School announced on Sunday during several TV appearances.

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Anonymous wrote:For all the supporters of this common sense move, Happy February 19th! You're clearly feeling inspired by FDR's legacy!

Seventy-four years ago today Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, leading to the imprisonment of over 100,000 persons of Japanese ancestry (as well as thousands of German and Italian ancestry) for the duration of World War II.

It was for "the children".

You aren't that bright are you? WTF does the Japanese internment have to do with protesting? Absolutely nothing. No one is talking about rounding up an ethnic group and imprisoning them. You're nuts. Just like nutty trumpsy!