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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]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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It has not been our experience that there have been major repercussions from attending the protests.

Teachers like you act like it will be a big deal. "Oh well your kid might miss something"  that very rarely was the case

Most teachers did not plow through with the curriculum if a majority of the class was going to be absent. This happens whether its a walk out, or a bad weather incident or illness sweeping through the school. It's a waste of their time to do so. And yes they have options. The same ones they employ when they are unexpectedly absent and have a sub.

Of course I said "majority of students." Who knows what your schools are like.
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