Climate walkout. Are you allowing your high school student to attend?

[Anonymous]

My kid is mad at me because I was appalled that he wasn't planning on walking out even if no one else did.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kid is mad at me because I was appalled that he wasn't planning on walking out even if no one else did.

Poor kid. He doesn't care about your cause, and you're giving him a hard time about it?

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Anonymous wrote:For children in school, it's not fake activism, it's activism-in-training. They learn from parents and teachers to be involved citizens.

I love the activism. I hate the parental involvement to make sure their kids get excused absences. Fully infantilizing.

Your hate is misplaced and your fantasy of activism is skewed to the dramatic. Teachers and parents encouraging students to learn to walk out, for a worthwhile cause, while sparing them the adverse consequences is exactly how civics education should go. You don't need to arrested or reprimanded to be heard.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kid is mad at me because I was appalled that he wasn't planning on walking out even if no one else did.

Poor kid. He doesn't care about your cause, and you're giving him a hard time about it?

He does care.

[Anonymous]

5 inconvenient truths about the 'climate strike'

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kid is mad at me because I was appalled that he wasn't planning on walking out even if no one else did.

Poor kid. He doesn't care about your cause, and you're giving him a hard time about it?

He does care.

Good for him and good for you, and glad the editor allows the thread. Last winter posts on this
subject were immediately deleted.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:5 inconvenient truths about the 'climate strike'

You don't even have to go to Fox -- which people will reject out of hand -- to get to the truth behind this "strike": the event's site, and the "climate justice" demands it links to, openly reveal the radical anti-capitalist, anti-US, international socialist agenda.

https://www.peoplesdemands.org/#read-the-demands-section

More on Climate Justice: https://climatejusticealliance.org/

[Anonymous]

My friend posted a video of his K and 2nd grader doing this, he was so proud. I thought it was so dumb. Why you'd take a kid to protest something they haven't even learned about, let alone get them tied up in political causes is such a ridiculous elitist DC thing to do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My friend posted a video of his K and 2nd grader doing this, he was so proud. I thought it was so dumb. Why you'd take a kid to protest something they haven't even learned about, let alone get them tied up in political causes is such a ridiculous elitist DC thing to do.

what about the hundreds of thousands of kids who participated around the world? are they ridiculous and elitist? I think it's awesome to start conversations with kids about tough issues that will require their voices to effect (and hopefully sustain) change. I think you're underestimating kids and the impact of events like this. I still remember seeing my older sister go to marches when she was in HS and I was in elementary. taught me the importance of voice in a democracy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My friend posted a video of his K and 2nd grader doing this, he was so proud. I thought it was so dumb. Why you'd take a kid to protest something they haven't even learned about, let alone get them tied up in political causes is such a ridiculous elitist DC thing to do.

what about the hundreds of thousands of kids who participated around the world? are they ridiculous and elitist? I think it's awesome to start conversations with kids about tough issues that will require their voices to effect (and hopefully sustain) change. I think you're underestimating kids and the impact of events like this. I still remember seeing my older sister go to marches when she was in HS and I was in elementary. taught me the importance of voice in a democracy.

What if you have no concept yet 1) what the climate is, 2) the science behind any of it changing, 3) what a democracy is?

I think for a high school kid it's great, maybe even middle. A second grader would be better served by just going to school and learning.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My friend posted a video of his K and 2nd grader doing this, he was so proud. I thought it was so dumb. Why you'd take a kid to protest something they haven't even learned about, let alone get them tied up in political causes is such a ridiculous elitist DC thing to do.

what about the hundreds of thousands of kids who participated around the world? are they ridiculous and elitist? I think it's awesome to start conversations with kids about tough issues that will require their voices to effect (and hopefully sustain) change. I think you're underestimating kids and the impact of events like this. I still remember seeing my older sister go to marches when she was in HS and I was in elementary. taught me the importance of voice in a democracy.

What if you have no concept yet 1) what the climate is, 2) the science behind any of it changing, 3) what a democracy is?

I think for a high school kid it's great, maybe even middle. A second grader would be better served by just going to school and learning.

I would hope that someone would explain what was going on and why they were there. Lots of chances to have age appropriate conversations about that. the reopened dinosaur exhibit at the natural history museum sparked that conversation with my kids. It's like any topic. they might not dive into all the ins and outs, but if you want to, you can introduce big ideas to them. If you don't, you don't, but you don't have to assume people are being ridiculous and elitist just because they are parenting in a different way than you.

[Anonymous]

Can you imagine the outrage is students were encouraged to attend the pro-life march that happens every year?
Imagine if public school superintendents allowed "excused absences" for this event.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can you imagine the outrage is students were encouraged to attend the pro-life march that happens every year?
Imagine if public school superintendents allowed "excused absences" for this event.

well, this is science-based, not faith-based.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can you imagine the outrage is students were encouraged to attend the pro-life march that happens every year?
Imagine if public school superintendents allowed "excused absences" for this event.

I work near Union Station and I see many students gather there, even from out of town, to attend the pro life march you mention. So it does happen. Nobody has been outraged. Live and let live. Get off your judgmental horse.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can you imagine the outrage is students were encouraged to attend the pro-life march that happens every year?
Imagine if public school superintendents allowed "excused absences" for this event.

I work near Union Station and I see many students gather there, even from out of town, to attend the pro life march you mention. So it does happen. Nobody has been outraged. Live and let live. Get off your judgmental horse.

Yeah, that was a very bad example. In my district, high school students called a general strike on the last inauguration day. About 20% walked out and held a rally at our statehouse. They had negotiated with the superintendent in advance of the strike and brought in the ACLU, so absences weren't excused but students couldn't be given an extra punishment for political speech that was beyond the regular punishment for skipping class. Whether people supported the students' action or not, it was definitely a powerful civic learning experience.