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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For those of you who are okay with their child participating in a protest during school hours, why don’t you try doing the same thing during your work hours?   Inform your boss you are heading down to the Washington Monument for X amt of time.  Maybe you have a big meeting, but too bad because “the cause” is more important.  Your boss would tell you to do it on your own time.[/quote]

This is a false narrative.  Schools let kids out of class for all sorts of non-academic reasons.  My boss wouldn't be happy if I left my office for a pep rally or a PBIS event either but kids are excused from classes to do that all the time.

A lot of people on here are seeing these protests through the lens of a UMC kid protesting outside one of the W schools.  If you see the kids from schools in PG at these rallies, it MEANS something to them.
 
If a white UMC kid goes to a protest on The Mall there is a reasonable certainty that they will come home that night.  I don't know that the immigrant community has that same privilege.  [/quote]

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