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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is it a one day detention?  Just let the kid serve it proudly.  Get home work done.  Like you said, civil disobedience has consequences and that is okay.  Your kid did the right thing and he or she knows that.    [/quote]

Yeah, I'm torn between the lessons. On the one hand, yeah, civil disobedience has consequences. On the other hand, I genuinely don't recognize the authority of the school to detain my child for this. Maybe not a hill worth dying on.[/quote]

Why don't you recognize their authority? Because she walked out for a good reason that you agreed with? What if she had walked out for a reason you didn't agree with, or started protesting daily or something?

I would think she'd serve this detention as a badge of honor, and you ought to help her see it that way. If you ALSO want to send a strongly-worded statement to the administration expressing your disappointment and anget that they didn't accommodate the walkout or offer an alternative, that's a good plan, too.[/quote]

What's the point of an "accomodated" walkout? It makes as much sense as a sit-in when you're invited to the dinner. [/quote]

The point is facilitating the students' civic involvement, which some schools are doing. [b]The stated reason for the walkout is to commemorate the Parkland victims and other victims of school shootings.[/b] In that narrow reading of the point of the walkout, it would be fine for schools to accommodate it, or to say they won't punish kids for it.

Kids are being asked to do this regardless, but there's no rule that says some schools can't also buck the system as a whole.[/quote]

So it's not actually a protest? They just want to have a moment of silence? [/quote]

Maybe you tell your child how to protest, if they are even allowed to do so (doubt it) - but some of us do not live in a dictatorship household.  [/quote]

I'm not talking about individual households, I'm talking about what you said is the stated purpose of the walkout. It sounds like it's not actually a protest. Is that right?[/quote]

Believe it or not, there is more than one poster who disagrees with you.  But please, keep acting as if there is one.  It is entertaining. [/quote]

I'm also a different poster. I'm the one asking you about how a school should determine what protests it allows.[/quote]

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