Hundreds of BPS students walk out to protest school budget cuts (Boston)

Universal Hub ^ | March 7, 2016 | Adam G

[ConservativeStatement]

At 11:30 a.m., hundreds of high-school and middle-school students walked out of their classes at Boston schools and streamed onto buses and subways for the ride downtown to let the mayor and the governor know they don't want their programs cut.

They swarmed out of Downtown Crossing for a rally at the Parkman Bandstand on the Common, followed by a march up to the State House and then to Faneuil Hall. Mayor Walsh, who was attending a press conference at Faneuil Hall to announce that Boston would host a conference for millennials who want to get rich, got into his car and left without talking to the students outside. Perhaps he heard them booing his name and vowing to make him a one-term mayor.

[ConservativeStatement]

But the Sotomayor quote is amusing in itself. Some day, we will be equal to the Clintons and Kennedys. Some day. Keep the faith.

[jessduntno]

They don’t need no stinkin’ education...

[stocksthatgoup]

Didn’t you just love those class outings?

[Donglalinger]

If they send home the illegals that should solve the problem

[Blue Jays]

Had I ever "walked out of class in protest" in middle school or high school...my parents would have grounded me until I was 25 years old.

[PGR88]

Isn’t it nice that kids have become props and propaganda for the teachers’ unions?

[manc]

We could not even stand up when I was in school even if the bell went , unless the teacher said so.

Now these all about me fools just walk out as if they know anything about anything.

[jessduntno]

“Didn’t you just love those class outings?”

Ha! Any teacher of mine woulda been run out of town on a rail if they tried that crap.

[grania]

If the issue is cutting programs that are important to them, it's the same issue public schools all over the US face. That would be programs which communities actually want have to be cut to pay for the garbage the feds demand be taught.

FWIW, MA has a history of standing up for local initiative in determining what is taught.

[ConservativeStatement]

The “parents” of many of these students are Big Daddy Guvmint, I would venture to guess.

[Hot Tabasco]

my parents would have grounded me until I was 25 years old.

Mine too........

[CaptainK]

Most of them probably don’t attend half of their current classes so the cuts won’t be an actual loss.

[Vigilanteman]

There are states, counties and school districts where far left Democrat liberals control everything. I challenge them to name one such place which "fully funds" education in their opinion. Just one.

They never can. Nor can they define what full funding means. Just more.

The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania spends an average of $15,000 per year on every public school student. I can show you colleges with tuition much less than that which give high quality education. Yet, it is never enough.

[Blue Jays]

Completely concur these so-called parents likely transitioned all responsibility to Big Government ^TM long ago.

[NEMDF]

I suppose it is common in some parts of the country, but it does not seem to me that the schools should be run by the city government. Anywhere I have lived, there has been a separate school board, which has no direct relationship to the mayor, city manager, or city council members.

[Dacula]

my parents would have grounded me until I was 25 years old.

Mine too........

I’m STILL grounded. :(

[Texas Eagle]

Where’s the Oregon State Police when you need them?

[Texas Eagle]

Yo, stupid idiot punks, who do you think is going to be paying for your teachers' retirements for the rest of their lives?

A) You

B) Your children

C) Your grandchildren

D) Your great-grandchildren

E) All of the above

[blam]

I’m 72 years old...when I was in school, education was viewed as an opportunity...an opportunity to better yourself and the teachers were all known by the parents and they were a part of the community.

[Texas Eagle]

Yo, stupid idiot punks, how much of your teachers' retirements will come out of your paychecks?

A) All of it

B) All of the above

How much of your teachers' salaries will go to paying for your retirement?

A) None of it

B) All of the above