My personal view - kids should have no role in activism on any issue. No adult I know asks teenagers for life advice, with good reason.

I can't imagine what life skills people think kids will develop by being encouraged to dig in their heels on complex and sensitive issues that they probably never even thought about before a year or two ago, and never having had any real responsibilities, never had to make hard decisions, no instinctive understanding of compromise or the limitations of their knowledge or worldviews - and on and on.

It does seem like a good way to produce more sanctimonious and narrow-minded adults though!

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Anonymous wrote:They can protest before, after school and weekends.

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Explain to me how kids skipping school to display their herd mentality on some issue they have no knowledge or experience of is supposed to make adults take them more seriously

You think DC area high school students have no knowledge or understanding of what our federal government is going right now regarding immigration enforcement? Mine sure do!

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Anonymous wrote:They can protest before, after school and weekends.

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Explain to me how kids skipping school to display their herd mentality on some issue they have no knowledge or experience of is supposed to make adults take them more seriously

You think DC area high school students have no knowledge or understanding of what our federal government is going right now regarding immigration enforcement? Mine sure do!

From what... reading the papers? Quoting what their parents tell them? Talking to other teens in a 95% blue city?

How do your kids think we should secure the border? How do they think asylum claims should work? Visas? What services should illegal immigrants have access to and why? How exactlty should the law be enforced? Should families be separated or kept together? What if one's illegal and the others aren't? If your kids have fully-developed views on all these things as part of a moral and rational framework that actually hangs together... then I don't know how they'd have a minute left for any of their classes.

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Anonymous wrote:What’s the actual goal of a walkout, on any topic? Have any walkouts ever resulted in real change? This is my issue with them. If you want to do something about something, do something that will actually make a difference.

Yes walkouts and protest do affect change.

Which school walkout (again, on any topic) led to change?

Protests aren’t about a singular event. They’re about building momentum, sustained efforts, raising awareness, public pressure, etc. Time to go back to studying up on the Civil Rights movement.

How naive of you. This is 2026 and not the 1950s. We have more effective tools now, even for K-12 kids.

Isn’t the whole point of a walk out to get punished?

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Anonymous wrote:They can protest before, after school and weekends.

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Explain to me how kids skipping school to display their herd mentality on some issue they have no knowledge or experience of is supposed to make adults take them more seriously

You think DC area high school students have no knowledge or understanding of what our federal government is going right now regarding immigration enforcement? Mine sure do!

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Anonymous wrote:What’s the actual goal of a walkout, on any topic? Have any walkouts ever resulted in real change? This is my issue with them. If you want to do something about something, do something that will actually make a difference.

Yes walkouts and protest do affect change.

Which school walkout (again, on any topic) led to change?

Protests aren’t about a singular event. They’re about building momentum, sustained efforts, raising awareness, public pressure, etc. Time to go back to studying up on the Civil Rights movement.

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Anonymous wrote:They can protest before, after school and weekends.

This.

Schools should enforce whatever that’s school rules happen to be — consistently — without regard to the claimed topic of any walkout.

And if a kid of mine ever leaves his/her class or school without permission, there will be adverse consequences for him/her at home. For now, school is their job and they need to focus on their academics and learning.

Exactly. My kids know not to leave with a walk out.

Anonymous wrote:They can protest before, after school and weekends.

This.

Schools should enforce whatever that’s school rules happen to be — consistently — without regard to the claimed topic of any walkout.

And if a kid of mine ever leaves his/her class or school without permission, there will be adverse consequences for him/her at home. For now, school is their job and they need to focus on their academics and learning.

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Explain to me how kids skipping school to display their herd mentality on some issue they have no knowledge or experience of is supposed to make adults take them more seriously

They can protest before, after school and weekends.

Bay Area CA, but my kid’s school had a sanctioned voluntary walkout. The same happened at multiple area schools, and attendance was very high with no punishment. We are deep blue country though, and I imagine it is different in DMV based on my time living there.

The 2018 March for Our Lives

My daughter participated in several of the walkouts and protests on Capitol Hill. She is still inspired by it today and encourages others to protest injustices that effect students.

And for reference, the Museum of Protest cites this about those walkouts on their website:

"The movement successfully shifted national discourse around gun violence, became a significant political force in the 2018 and 2020 elections, and contributed to passage of more than 250 gun control laws at the state level, including the first significant federal gun legislation in 30 years—the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act. Youth voter turnout reached record levels, with young people credited as “the difference-maker in key states.”"

Keep protesting, kids!!

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Anonymous wrote:What’s the actual goal of a walkout, on any topic? Have any walkouts ever resulted in real change? This is my issue with them. If you want to do something about something, do something that will actually make a difference.

Yes walkouts and protest do affect change.

On what planet? Not here on earth when it comes to K-12 students walking out of class.

First of all, parents are paying tuition so walking out of class seems dumb. Second, they should probably brainstorm a more effective means of enacting change than this. This would be a low IQ move.

Low IQ or the start of kids organizing and getting involved? Kids have been protesting for ages.

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Anonymous wrote:What’s the actual goal of a walkout, on any topic? Have any walkouts ever resulted in real change? This is my issue with them. If you want to do something about something, do something that will actually make a difference.

Yes walkouts and protest do affect change.

Which school walkout (again, on any topic) led to change?

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Anonymous wrote:What’s the actual goal of a walkout, on any topic? Have any walkouts ever resulted in real change? This is my issue with them. If you want to do something about something, do something that will actually make a difference.

Yes walkouts and protest do affect change.

On what planet? Not here on earth when it comes to K-12 students walking out of class.

First of all, parents are paying tuition so walking out of class seems dumb. Second, they should probably brainstorm a more effective means of enacting change than this. This would be a low IQ move.