Planned walkout? Thoughts?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our school is majority Latino with a high proportion of students coming from immigrant families. I see the walk out as a protest and probably more importantly, a show of solidarity with each other.
A lot of these kids see ICE in their neighborhoods, know people have been detained or deported.
There is something special about peers getting together and publicly saying what is happening to you is wrong and we are here to support you.

There are also a lot of youth from immigrant families who DO NOT participate in these walk-outs. We support detaining and deporting illegal immigrants. The fact that the US has not forced its laws for decades doesn't mean that it's free for all. We all went through years of waiting, separation, spent a lot of money, had medical tests etc. etc. and never got public assistance. Do not for a second start imagining to yourself that all immigrants support these walk-outs. These are organized by liberals. It's the biggest mistake that you made. You cannot brainwash us with your sob stories. It's over for illegals. I enjoy confronting all the white liberal women living in a cuckoo-land who think they're on some kind of crusade.

I agree. Special interest groups are exploiting children for their own political gain.

I cannot support these so-called "walk outs."

[Anonymous]

I have strong opinions on walkouts and have posted a few times about my experiences as a teacher. Most students do not take them seriously and use them to skip class.

We had a discussion with our teens tonight and they know our feelings. We can’t control what they do at school and they are old enough to decide but we hope they do not participate in any walk outs or protests during school hours.

I didn’t mention in my posts that my all of my grandparents were immigrants. They would not want any of their great grandchildren leaving school like that for any cause. They valued work and responsibility more than anything else.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our school is majority Latino with a high proportion of students coming from immigrant families. I see the walk out as a protest and probably more importantly, a show of solidarity with each other.
A lot of these kids see ICE in their neighborhoods, know people have been detained or deported.
There is something special about peers getting together and publicly saying what is happening to you is wrong and we are here to support you.

There are also a lot of youth from immigrant families who DO NOT participate in these walk-outs. We support detaining and deporting illegal immigrants. The fact that the US has not forced its laws for decades doesn't mean that it's free for all. We all went through years of waiting, separation, spent a lot of money, had medical tests etc. etc. and never got public assistance. Do not for a second start imagining to yourself that all immigrants support these walk-outs. These are organized by liberals. It's the biggest mistake that you made. You cannot brainwash us with your sob stories. It's over for illegals. I enjoy confronting all the white liberal women living in a cuckoo-land who think they're on some kind of crusade.

I agree. Special interest groups are exploiting children for their own political gain.

I cannot support these so-called "walk outs."

GenZ and maybe old alpha can see the world they will inherit. They really are getting the shaft from Trump.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our school is majority Latino with a high proportion of students coming from immigrant families. I see the walk out as a protest and probably more importantly, a show of solidarity with each other.
A lot of these kids see ICE in their neighborhoods, know people have been detained or deported.
There is something special about peers getting together and publicly saying what is happening to you is wrong and we are here to support you.

There are also a lot of youth from immigrant families who DO NOT participate in these walk-outs. We support detaining and deporting illegal immigrants. The fact that the US has not forced its laws for decades doesn't mean that it's free for all. We all went through years of waiting, separation, spent a lot of money, had medical tests etc. etc. and never got public assistance. Do not for a second start imagining to yourself that all immigrants support these walk-outs. These are organized by liberals. It's the biggest mistake that you made. You cannot brainwash us with your sob stories. It's over for illegals. I enjoy confronting all the white liberal women living in a cuckoo-land who think they're on some kind of crusade.

I agree. Special interest groups are exploiting children for their own political gain.

I cannot support these so-called "walk outs."

GenZ and maybe old alpha can see the world they will inherit. They really are getting the shaft from Trump.

I am sorry, but they are the most privileged, indulged, pampered generation in history.

They have so much friggin stuff, expensive stuff, cars, thousand dollar smart phones, huge houses where everyone has their own room and no one shares anything, $200.00 sneakers...

They are glued to their thousand dollar smart phones all day long getting fed propaganda and stupidity from chinese bots designed to sow discord and make them hate everyone around them. They have zero historical perspective and only know what big brother and the chinese propaganda bots feed them. They think that they are going to become instafamous and monetize their online fake lives so they don't need to actually work.

They are not getting shafted by anyone but their stupid smart phones that are making them stupid, addicted and lazy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our school is majority Latino with a high proportion of students coming from immigrant families. I see the walk out as a protest and probably more importantly, a show of solidarity with each other.
A lot of these kids see ICE in their neighborhoods, know people have been detained or deported.
There is something special about peers getting together and publicly saying what is happening to you is wrong and we are here to support you.

There are also a lot of youth from immigrant families who DO NOT participate in these walk-outs. We support detaining and deporting illegal immigrants. The fact that the US has not forced its laws for decades doesn't mean that it's free for all. We all went through years of waiting, separation, spent a lot of money, had medical tests etc. etc. and never got public assistance. Do not for a second start imagining to yourself that all immigrants support these walk-outs. These are organized by liberals. It's the biggest mistake that you made. You cannot brainwash us with your sob stories. It's over for illegals. I enjoy confronting all the white liberal women living in a cuckoo-land who think they're on some kind of crusade.

You know you are a loser right

The bolded is not what ICE is doing

I wouldn't waste any sob story on you, MAGA

I can tell an uneducated immigrant when I hear one, no matter what degree brought you here

- an anti ICE legal immigrant

At least I don't have to lower myself to your level of calling names. Put your money where your mouth is. Move back South of border and upkeep those immigrants from cradle to grave. Use your own money for that. I don't want my tax money (and I'm among the 1/2 of population who pays) to go to upkeep you and the likes of you. Offer to deport yourself instead of some of those. Let them move into your house and provide for them. I come from a poor country and if handouts are free for all, I'd rather see my countrymen get some. Perhaps I should ask my 100s of relatives to move here if your house and wallet are open. Let me know. Otherwise keep your mouth shut.

You have written absolutely nothing that’s true. Nothing. Soon people like you from poor countries won’t be allowed in at all. Trump wants only people who can pay a whole lot of money for a visa.

[Anonymous]

For those of you who are okay with their child participating in a protest during school hours, why don’t you try doing the same thing during your work hours? Inform your boss you are heading down to the Washington Monument for X amt of time. Maybe you have a big meeting, but too bad because “the cause” is more important. Your boss would tell you to do it on your own time.

[Anonymous]

Protests are supposed to cost you something. There is no stand to take if there isn’t something to be lost. So it makes sense to say you won’t be punished with discipline for exercising your right to walk out, but if it costs you a test grade or an assignment, that was what you sacrificed to make the point. And then let the kids decide how they choose to voice their opinion. But it costing something IS the point of a protest, or did you think it was convenient for everyone to walk to work during the Montgomery Bus Boycott?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our school is majority Latino with a high proportion of students coming from immigrant families. I see the walk out as a protest and probably more importantly, a show of solidarity with each other.
A lot of these kids see ICE in their neighborhoods, know people have been detained or deported.
There is something special about peers getting together and publicly saying what is happening to you is wrong and we are here to support you.

There are also a lot of youth from immigrant families who DO NOT participate in these walk-outs. We support detaining and deporting illegal immigrants. The fact that the US has not forced its laws for decades doesn't mean that it's free for all. We all went through years of waiting, separation, spent a lot of money, had medical tests etc. etc. and never got public assistance. Do not for a second start imagining to yourself that all immigrants support these walk-outs. These are organized by liberals. It's the biggest mistake that you made. You cannot brainwash us with your sob stories. It's over for illegals. I enjoy confronting all the white liberal women living in a cuckoo-land who think they're on some kind of crusade.

I agree. Special interest groups are exploiting children for their own political gain.

I cannot support these so-called "walk outs."

GenZ and maybe old alpha can see the world they will inherit. They really are getting the shaft from Trump.

I am sorry, but they are the most privileged, indulged, pampered generation in history.

They have so much friggin stuff, expensive stuff, cars, thousand dollar smart phones, huge houses where everyone has their own room and no one shares anything, $200.00 sneakers...

They are glued to their thousand dollar smart phones all day long getting fed propaganda and stupidity from chinese bots designed to sow discord and make them hate everyone around them. They have zero historical perspective and only know what big brother and the chinese propaganda bots feed them. They think that they are going to become instafamous and monetize their online fake lives so they don't need to actually work.

They are not getting shafted by anyone but their stupid smart phones that are making them stupid, addicted and lazy.

Yes, yes. I know poor immigrants are fixated on stuff, look at the goods they own

No generation is a monolith.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For those of you who are okay with their child participating in a protest during school hours, why don’t you try doing the same thing during your work hours? Inform your boss you are heading down to the Washington Monument for X amt of time. Maybe you have a big meeting, but too bad because “the cause” is more important. Your boss would tell you to do it on your own time.

My boss pays me to come to work

You really should stop. You are just blathering right now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For those of you who are okay with their child participating in a protest during school hours, why don’t you try doing the same thing during your work hours? Inform your boss you are heading down to the Washington Monument for X amt of time. Maybe you have a big meeting, but too bad because “the cause” is more important. Your boss would tell you to do it on your own time.

This is a false narrative. Schools let kids out of class for all sorts of non-academic reasons. My boss wouldn't be happy if I left my office for a pep rally or a PBIS event either but kids are excused from classes to do that all the time.

A lot of people on here are seeing these protests through the lens of a UMC kid protesting outside one of the W schools. If you see the kids from schools in PG at these rallies, it MEANS something to them.

If a white UMC kid goes to a protest on The Mall there is a reasonable certainty that they will come home that night. I don't know that the immigrant community has that same privilege.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For those of you who are okay with their child participating in a protest during school hours, why don’t you try doing the same thing during your work hours? Inform your boss you are heading down to the Washington Monument for X amt of time. Maybe you have a big meeting, but too bad because “the cause” is more important. Your boss would tell you to do it on your own time.

My DS participated in a walkout recently. It took about an hour and had no impact on his assignments. He’s a good student and it was something he wanted to participate in. I did not think too much about it.

But, it was a lesson on its own that I ultimately thought was valuable. First, there was press. He realized that he didn’t like that at all. None of the published pictures included him but now he knows that this is a possibility and he can choose to avoid it. Second, he thought the walkout was about a narrowly focused topic. That was the messaging. It turned out to be more than he had expected and probably lead by one of those special interest groups that a PP posted up thread. He thought it was a bait and switch.

So sure, that hour didn’t teach him anything academic but it taught him other valuable lessons. I’m fine with the trade off.

[Anonymous]

As an immigrant they are ignorant we don't want undocumented

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our school is majority Latino with a high proportion of students coming from immigrant families. I see the walk out as a protest and probably more importantly, a show of solidarity with each other.
A lot of these kids see ICE in their neighborhoods, know people have been detained or deported.
There is something special about peers getting together and publicly saying what is happening to you is wrong and we are here to support you.

There are also a lot of youth from immigrant families who DO NOT participate in these walk-outs. We support detaining and deporting illegal immigrants. The fact that the US has not forced its laws for decades doesn't mean that it's free for all. We all went through years of waiting, separation, spent a lot of money, had medical tests etc. etc. and never got public assistance. Do not for a second start imagining to yourself that all immigrants support these walk-outs. These are organized by liberals. It's the biggest mistake that you made. You cannot brainwash us with your sob stories. It's over for illegals. I enjoy confronting all the white liberal women living in a cuckoo-land who think they're on some kind of crusade.

You won’t support it when you see the one being detained; when you protest that you are here lawfully and you are ignored, your passport is left behind in the car you were ripped out of and you were shipped off to a warehouse in Texas and eventually dumped into the streets of El Paso with no phone and no money. Ooops, sorry you were missing for 20 days and you had to sleep on a bathroom floor with 10 other people and you lost your job and your family was traumatized because we had to meet our quota to arrest so many people per day and we don’t GAF if you claim you are here legally.

This is what is happening in Minnesota. Deny it all you want, it’s the truth. I have close family in the Twin Cities and they see it with their own eyes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For those of you who are okay with their child participating in a protest during school hours, why don’t you try doing the same thing during your work hours? Inform your boss you are heading down to the Washington Monument for X amt of time. Maybe you have a big meeting, but too bad because “the cause” is more important. Your boss would tell you to do it on your own time.

No, my boss goes with me. I work in a law firm and we care about the rule of law and defending the Constitution. We go to protests together and then come back to the office and get our work done like the capable adults we are.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As an immigrant they are ignorant we don't want undocumented

I mean, you sound a little ignorant right now

I guess we don't want you...