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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]He’s in high school. Let him be.

An “approved” walkout is kind on an oxymoron though.[/quote]
Well, that’s the thing: It’s planned for a Friday when most kids have tests. If they go, they get 0s, and tests are 70% of their grade. If he gets a zero for this test, he will have a really hard time coming back, and have zero wiggle room. [/quote]

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Talk to his teachers. Explain that he faces peer pressure etc. They aren’t interested in failing your kid [/quote]

Nope. I’m a teacher. The kids are aware of what the walkout means. You don’t get to walkout and then your mommy emails me so I treat you special and let you make up the test nobody else can make up. I wouldn’t even respond. If he walks out, he walks out. If he stays he stays. I’m not chasing kids around about this stuff. [/quote]

Teachers are people too

All kinds,some like PP. Others, not. [/quote]

[b]In this instance, most are like me[/b]. I support the kids protesting if they want. But your mom is not going to email me and then say you don’t have the same outcome as everyone else who walked out and maybe missed something. Your choice always has a consequence and the kids do have to own that. [/quote]

That has not been our experience. [/quote]

It has been your experience that after students walk out of class you can email the teacher and they say “yeah just for you Jonathan can make up that assignment”? Because that is the exact experience we’re discussing here. Not “do teachers generally let kids make up work” which I do. But “do teachers violate the school policy that students who participate in a walk out miss work they cannot make up later and bend on that because the parent asked them to.” Which no, most would not. [/quote]

Teachers proactively discussed the walk out and what the child's choices were regarding work. No one needed to be contacted by me.

I can believe you are a teacher. We've met some who had been doing this too long. [/quote]

If you did not do this, why are you responding as if you did? The entire comment spawned from someone telling OP to email the teacher to ask could her son still do the work he would miss during the walkout because she doesn’t want him to fail. I said as a teacher I would not accede to that and treat that student as an exception to the policy. You said “that hasn’t been our experience” and then go on to admit this isn’t even something you’ve dealt with or that has applied to you at all. Huh???

If your kid walks out in protest, they are aware they might miss work. There isn’t an exception to that. If the teacher decides to halt all instruction so the kids miss nothing, that’s their choice. If they proceed with instruction and the kids miss something, the kids accept that as part of walking out. This isn’t hard. And despite your passive aggressive attempts at framing a teacher who follows this policy as a bad teacher, they aren’t. 
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Let's not forget it's the teacher's choice if something is going on in class that will impact a grade. They don't have to halt instruction, but there aren't graded assessments every day. If the teacher has a choice and decides that student's will lose grades because they are protesting ice no, they aren't a bad teacher, just a bad person. [/quote]

Incorrect again. my opinions about ICE are such that honestly most of you would consider it radical. But this isn’t about my politics. At my school, we already had the walkout. Some kids went. Some didn’t. I kept teaching, not because I love ICE and want to punish kids protesting ICE, but because some kids didn’t go and I can’t essentially force them into a protest by halting instruction when the protesting classmates aren’t there. Those kids didn’t walk out for whatever reason , that isn’t mine to judge, and I cannot say that basically, your learning is hostage to what kids whose politics I align with are out doing right now.

Nobody is going to experience a make or break F by doing this kind of thing. At most you miss a small assignment or some instruction. If you really can’t afford that you probably shouldn’t go, but I cannot justify pausing all instruction for all kids because SOME choose to protest, even if in actuality I am on their side of the protest and also hate ICE. [/quote]

Thank you, PP. I appreciate your response. You aren’t, as PP stated, a “bad person.” Thank you about caring about ALL CHILDREN. That’s lost in this debate, where people seem to only be worried about their own. [/quote]

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