Why is MCPS radicalizing our children?

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

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.

I'm pretty sure this isn't an officially sanctioned MCPS protest. She means the students are doing it. If the authorities are doing it, it isn't a protest.

And yes, I would 100% allow my kid to walk out to protest abortion, the pro-life movement, or any particular religion, if that's how she truly felt. I'd have a serious talk with her about her underlying beliefs, especially if she's protesting a particular religion, but I'm not going to punish her for speaking out in good faith. I will punish her for walking out to protest being in school, though

[Anonymous]

Kids have the right to protest. They are not required to protest.

Mcps is not anti second amendment.

[Anonymous]

Schools/children are being targeted by shooters and our lawmakers do nothing. It is the students’ right to protest this horrifying trend.

[Anonymous]

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

[Anonymous]

I wonder where your kid goes... Must be a liberal school like BCC or RM because my kids really want to do a walkout but their principal won't let them and when they tried to security wouldn't even let them leave.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wonder where your kid goes... Must be a liberal school like BCC or RM because my kids really want to do a walkout but their principal won't let them and when they tried to security wouldn't even let them leave.

Which school won’t allow this?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wonder where your kid goes... Must be a liberal school like BCC or RM because my kids really want to do a walkout but their principal won't let them and when they tried to security wouldn't even let them leave.

Which school won’t allow this?

I was wondering the same thing. Which high school?

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

Oh, I miss Montgomery County - signed, couldn't afford and moved to NoVa

[Anonymous]

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'.

[Anonymous]

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

Well that's a problem isn't it because children are far more likely to be killed in a motor vehicle than they are in a school. In fact there are many things much more likely to kill them than 'gun violence in a school'.

However I agree there are many things that can be done to make children even safer than they are in school... but leaving school to go protest something is not one of them.

Didn't some child get assaulted last year going to one of these activist school condoned protests??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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

Well that's a problem isn't it because children are far more likely to be killed in a motor vehicle than they are in a school. In fact there are many things much more likely to kill them than 'gun violence in a school'.

However I agree there are many things that can be done to make children even safer than they are in school... but leaving school to go protest something is not one of them.

Didn't some child get assaulted last year going to one of these activist school condoned protests??

Yea, kids used to routinely die in car accidents, so we developed car seats and created laws about using them. Now, these kids rightfully want lawmakers to create laws limiting the sale of high-capacity, fast-firing weapons that are used to kill dozens of people in minutes. No one is radicalizing them. They are demanding protections from the adults around them.

[Anonymous]

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

Mcps is not anti second amendment.

Sure, doesn't disrupt instruction at all.