Why is MCPS radicalizing our children?

[Anonymous]

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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.

If your daughter agreeswith the cause, let her join up with the kids after school.

I have no problem with her participating after school.

[Anonymous]

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

+ 1.

I will support my child walking out from the classroom.

Well done parent, turn your child into a political tool. Why? does it makes you. Does it make you feel like you did something?

This protest of course will accomplish nothing. Sure it will make people like you feel good but it wont reduce violence. It wont take weapons away from criminals, it wont make our children safer. What it will do however is discourage your child from learning how to critical analyze complex issues, think for themselves, and function the real world where a myriad of people hold a a plethora of opinions. that takes hard work to do all that, why work hard when instead you can drop everything and join a protest movement where you can shout at all the injustices of the world whether grand, petty or merely just perceived. I children go to school and MCPS should be helping them become part of civil society, not protesters shouting bumpersticker platitudes.

But you the parent and you have the right to raise your child as fit, as a tax preyer though its my right to ensure my tax dollars go to education, not indoctrination so I'll still request the principal mark your absent on protest day.

What the hell are you trying to say? Your rant is completely unintelligible so you may want to worry about your own education before you worry about my child’s education.

Well since many other posters offered reasonable criticism to my post, I didn't appear unintelligible. Why is everyone else allowed to post their comments on a wide swath of topics on this forum regarding educational changes for our children but I am not? Merely because you disagree with me?? Sorry... it doesn't work that way.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't think this was just a MoCo thing - heard them talking about it at Sidwell, too.

Actually, I have no problem if Sidwell or any private school does this. Why, because each parent is individually paying for their child's education experience. If they don't like what Sidwell is doing, they can leave. If they don't mind, its their money. This doesn't hold trump for public school. We have an expectation that our children will be educated in accordance with the curriculum, our tax dollars will be dedicated solely to that curriculum, and the school will do everything possible to mitigate disruptions to that curriculum.

[Anonymous]

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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.

Walking out of school is not responsible IMHO, and not a real way to solve problems.

Tell that to all the students who have been walking out for weeks in Florida. The state legislature just passed its first gun control laws in 22 years.
https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/2018/03/07/florida-house-passes-first-gun-controls-20-years-gov-scott-wont-say-if-hell-sign/405048002/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Folks: Do not feed the trolls.
OP: It's spelled principal. -pal.

Sorry but voicing concern that you may disagree does not render one a troll. Why do you try to shut down debate by denigrating those whom you disagree with? That makes you worse than a troll.

This is not printed text. electronic social mass media will have typos and misspellings, especially when a smart phone is being used. Most people don't go into grammar nazi mode because of it as it would suppress the medium. People use the medium as it facilitates quick exchange of ideas and accept that errors come with that quickness as the efficiency of the exchange far outweighs the grammatical imperfections. In other words... lighten up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Folks: Do not feed the trolls.
OP: It's spelled principal. -pal.

Sorry but voicing concern that you may disagree does not render one a troll. Why do you try to shut down debate by denigrating those whom you disagree with? That makes you worse than a troll.

This is not printed text. electronic social mass media will have typos and misspellings, especially when a smart phone is being used. Most people don't go into grammar nazi mode because of it as it would suppress the medium. People use the medium as it facilitates quick exchange of ideas and accept that errors come with that quickness as the efficiency of the exchange far outweighs the grammatical imperfections. In other words... lighten up.

Forgot to add... good night all.

[Anonymous]

If kids
- don't know their local representatives,
- can't tell you about the functions of government,
- can't hold a civil discussion using credible statistics around this issue, and
- are failing some of their classes and/or are truants,

then they shouldn't walk out.

And many fall in one or MORE of the above categories.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote: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?

No I'm worried the next generation will deny themselves their inalienable rights and become victims to those who will not obey the law.

Your inalienable rights are for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Not for an AR-15.

[Anonymous]

OP - Could tell us the name of the school that is "sponsoring" the protest you are referring to?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Kids have the right to protest. They are not required to protest.

Mcps is not anti second amendment.

Children have rights but not the same liberties adults do. I'm not a lawyer but likley Truancy laws would dictate they do not have the right to leave school to 'protest'.

Baloney. Children are allowed a certain number of absences from school. When parents decide to take a long weekend to Paris, no one pees themselves.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If kids
- don't know their local representatives,
- can't tell you about the functions of government,
- can't hold a civil discussion using credible statistics around this issue, and
- are failing some of their classes and/or are truants,

then they shouldn't walk out.

And many fall in one or MORE of the above categories.

They'll be eligible to vote in a few years. There's no such test for voting. Maybe you think there should be, but there isn't. And if there's no such test for voting, there certainly is no such test for participating in a protest.

[Anonymous]

My kid walked of a Montgomery County high school for the protest a week or two ago. It was marked as an unexcused absence. The event was student-organized and not sponsored by or promoted by the school admin.

[Anonymous]

I want to briefly respond to OP's misinformation regarding "gun free zones."

First of all, Stoneman HS was not a gun free zone. There were armed SROs on campus, but their failure to act is a pretty good indicator that arming teachers and random civilians will not stop an active shooter, particularly not one who can do so much damage in a matter of seconds.

Second, mass shootings have NOT only happened in gun free zones. They have happened on military bases, in police stations, in movie theatres in open carry states, and on the campuses of open carry colleges and universities.

The truth is that, in the past two decades of ever-increasing gun violence, the number of times a "good guy with a gun" stopped anyone was...maybe one?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If kids
- don't know their local representatives,
- can't tell you about the functions of government,
- can't hold a civil discussion using credible statistics around this issue, and
- are failing some of their classes and/or are truants,

then they shouldn't walk out.

And many fall in one or MORE of the above categories.

They might know after the walkout or at least start taking interest.

[Anonymous]

Is OP off her meds?