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

Why?[/quote]

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. [/quote]

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

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?[/quote]

Per (1), sure. But if the threat of a walkout prompts schools to create a space in which expression of views is encouraged, the walkout has already succeeded.

Per (2), I'm sure are reasonable person such as yourself can understand how the issue of mass shootings in schools is more urgently germane to the student population, including the idiotic policy changes by the POTUS than topics such as abortion. A reasonable person like myself might even call your red herring about abortion a form of "whataboutism."[/quote]

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