My child got detention for walking out

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Anonymous wrote:Yup, I would just tell the kid that the cause was worth the detention and let him/her serve. I do think the school is shitty for giving them detention though.

Why?

OP: I didn't write this, but schools exist to educate our children. This is an opportunity to encourage civic engagement. These kids are finally going to change our idiotic gun laws -- schools should be encouraging that, not suppressing it.

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PP who agrees with OP and hopes nothing more than karma on the PP who does not.

1) What civic engagement is going on here? An allowed walkout is an oxymoron.
2) How should schools decide which issues, and which sides, are allowed? Should students be allowed to engage in anti-abortion civic engagement?

You tell us, you are positively enthralled with this question. Oh, and name calling. Don't forget the name calling. It erases any sign of ignorance. Yup.

NP I have called nobody any names. I would say that schools have no right to decide which issues should be endorsed with allowed protests, and which issues students are not allowed to protest. I'd be interested to hear someone argue specifically against that point.

I agree with this. And that means that if you want to protest for stricter gun laws, you have to accept whatever standard consequence the school imposes for your actions. You can not expect accomodations because you happen to believe that your protest is the correct one.

No one here seems to disagree with that. No one was saying that students should be given anything. Why was that thought interjected into the premise?

pp. I read the OP, and presumably some others, as saying or implying that for this particular protest, the school should allow it. Again, the school is in no position to decide to endorse some protests but not others.

ITA here. There's a strong sense of entitlement that you see among DCUM parents regularly.

Kinda like the poster who thinks it is okay to have guns in schools (what he is implying by trying to derail the thread)?

I didn't see that one.

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Anonymous wrote:It's not a walkout if there are no repercussions. it is just an activity.

THIS!!

I don't think anyone cares much about repercussions, though there is a poster that claims otherwise, I suspect to detract from the issue at hand.

The OP is about detention. It's in the subject line/title. She doesn't think that her DD should get detention as a repercussion.

[Anonymous]

OP Update: They're going to need a bigger detention all. More than 100 kids walked out.

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Anonymous wrote:OP Update: They're going to need a bigger detention all. More than 100 kids walked out.

Good. They should understand that actions have consequences. What is wrong with detention if you are defending your principles. Seems like a good solution to me. Win/win.

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Anonymous wrote:OP Update: They're going to need a bigger detention all. More than 100 kids walked out.

Good. They should understand that actions have consequences. What is wrong with detention if you are defending your principles. Seems like a good solution to me. Win/win.

And the school will understand that their actions have consequences, too. Threatening detention won't stop these kids, and now LCPS has to house them all.

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Anonymous wrote:OP Update: They're going to need a bigger detention all. More than 100 kids walked out.

So they'll open a few more classrooms for detention or stagger when the kids serve their detention.

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Anonymous wrote:OP Update: They're going to need a bigger detention all. More than 100 kids walked out.

So they'll open a few more classrooms for detention or stagger when the kids serve their detention.

And make more staff stay late.

So, yeah, the kids have the last laugh. This isn't much of a consequence.

School should have empowered the kids, not tried to suppress them. It was a bad move. Everyone is on the same side with this -- restrict guns.

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Anonymous wrote:I told her part of civil disobedience is accepting consequences for actions. But part of me is curious whether I can override the school's discipline here? I'm kind of pissed off at the school for not giving an alternative outlet for kids to express themselves. So, I'm torn as I really want to make my displeasure to the school known and make it clear I don't recognize their authority to discipline my child in this matter. I consider the detention to be unlawful detainment. Any suggestions?

(Under normal circumstances I wouldn't do anything like this, but I take great offense at LCPS suppressing student walkouts).

Good I am happy she got detention for waking out of class/skipping class...

When I went to school and I skip class I got detention for it why will your snowflake be any different?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:OP Update: They're going to need a bigger detention all. More than 100 kids walked out.

Good. They should understand that actions have consequences. What is wrong with detention if you are defending your principles. Seems like a good solution to me. Win/win.

And the school will understand that their actions have consequences, too. Threatening detention won't stop these kids, and now LCPS has to house them all.

"House" them all? Good lord! Exactly how long is this detention?

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She broke the rules. Don't do the crime if you can't do the time.

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Future social justice warriors of America!

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Anonymous wrote:I told her part of civil disobedience is accepting consequences for actions. But part of me is curious whether I can override the school's discipline here? I'm kind of pissed off at the school for not giving an alternative outlet for kids to express themselves. So, I'm torn as I really want to make my displeasure to the school known and make it clear I don't recognize their authority to discipline my child in this matter. I consider the detention to be unlawful detainment. Any suggestions?

(Under normal circumstances I wouldn't do anything like this, but I take great offense at LCPS suppressing student walkouts).

Good I am happy she got detention for waking out of class/skipping class...

When I went to school and I skip class I got detention for it why will your snowflake be any different?

Why are you calling my child a snowflake?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Future social justice warriors of America!

Terrifies you, doesn't it? These kids are far more powerful than the NRA's money. No wonder the right is losing its collective shit.

We're coming for you in November. You're done.

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Anonymous wrote:I told her part of civil disobedience is accepting consequences for actions. But part of me is curious whether I can override the school's discipline here? I'm kind of pissed off at the school for not giving an alternative outlet for kids to express themselves. So, I'm torn as I really want to make my displeasure to the school known and make it clear I don't recognize their authority to discipline my child in this matter. I consider the detention to be unlawful detainment. Any suggestions?

(Under normal circumstances I wouldn't do anything like this, but I take great offense at LCPS suppressing student walkouts).

Good I am happy she got detention for waking out of class/skipping class...

When I went to school and I skip class I got detention for it why will your snowflake be any different?

NP. Because you have implied throughout this thread that she deserves to be treated like one.


Why are you calling my child a snowflake?

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Anonymous wrote:I told her part of civil disobedience is accepting consequences for actions. But part of me is curious whether I can override the school's discipline here? I'm kind of pissed off at the school for not giving an alternative outlet for kids to express themselves. So, I'm torn as I really want to make my displeasure to the school known and make it clear I don't recognize their authority to discipline my child in this matter. I consider the detention to be unlawful detainment. Any suggestions?

(Under normal circumstances I wouldn't do anything like this, but I take great offense at LCPS suppressing student walkouts).

Good I am happy she got detention for waking out of class/skipping class...

When I went to school and I skip class I got detention for it why will your snowflake be any different?

NP. Because you have implied throughout this thread that she deserves to be treated like one.


Why are you calling my child a snowflake?

I've done no such thing. Look, if you cannot demonstrate basic reading comprehension, perhaps internet forums are not a place for you?