Anonymous wrote:

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.

+1

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Anonymous wrote:

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.

High school kids have been staging walkouts since forever. At least these kids have a cause better than the bad cafeteria food walkouts we did in the 80s.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nothing more pathetic than K-12 students doing a walk out / protest in modern times. Especially at a private school.

Yawn

That reply was actually more pathetic.

Anonymous wrote:All you have heard is just rumor!

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Anonymous wrote:Nothing more pathetic than K-12 students doing a walk out / protest in modern times. Especially at a private school.

Yawn

All you have heard is just rumor!

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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!!

“Shifted the discourse” is the vaguest participation trophy phrase in modern politics. School shootings shifted the discourse … full stop. Protests and walkouts can amplify attention, absolutely, but for incredibly brief and fleeting moments. Remember, correlation isn’t causation. Just because laws passed after rallies doesn’t mean they passed because of them.

Parkland was the straw that broke the camel’s back for high schoolers. Most couldn’t vote and were fed up with the Trump administration so they did what they could: they protested. And it started with a walkout. Many of them! And those students created March For Our Lives, which absolutely has had an impact on gun safety in America. It also has had an impact on those students who became voters.

https://marchforourlives.org/about-us/

Yet sadly, they didn’t create enough awareness or outrage then to move the needle in the election.

Honestly this is a perfect example of confusing momentum with causation.

Yes, students protested after Parkland. That absolutely mattered emotionally and culturally. Nobody disputes that.

But the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act didn’t materialize because teenagers walked out of algebra in 2018. It passed four years later after entirely different shootings, bipartisan Senate negotiations, and heavy lobbying by multiple long-standing advocacy groups. Even supporters acknowledge protests alone don’t move Congress without institutional deal-making behind the scenes.

And the “250 laws passed” statistic? That’s pulled from the organization’s own promotional material. Laws passed since something happened are not laws passed because of it.

Correlation is not causation.

If marches automatically produced policy outcomes, every cause with a big rally would be rewriting federal law every spring.

What March for Our Lives undeniably did was energize young activists and create media attention. That’s influence.

But claiming it directly delivered federal legislation or made kids safer is a much bigger leap, especially when (incredibly tragically) school shootings and youth gun deaths remain ongoing national problems years later.

Nothing more pathetic than K-12 students doing a walk out / protest in modern times. Especially at a private school.