There's no hand-wringing or brow-furrowing when they trash the Fourth Amendment via random locker searches. "The Constitution doesn't apply in schools", or "We are functioning as parents", or somesuch hogwash is supposed to be some kind of magic spell that makes it all ok.
Detention for everybody. If there was a test that day or that period, it's a zero.
THis is such total b.s. Schools are off for WEEKENDS, students can exercise their (wrongly labeled) “1st Amendment rights” without any effect on school attendance. Oh, but they WANT an excuse to skip school, duh.
Responsible administrators and teachers should have said from the start, “plan this on YOUR own time, not on school time.”
NO STUDENT SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO WALK OUT!!! ANARCHY!!!!
now we can see how the system has created followers and not leaders. Believers in what they are told rather than finding the truth themselves
They didn’t walk out over guns, they walked out just to skip school.
Teachers who objected to participating in this charade were told that there would be a Fire Drill, ensuring 100% participation.
WAR ON PUBLIC SCHOOL
Teacher Walkout who hurt Students
“let us rebuild the world that you f-—ed up.”
The simple fact is that young people are not, as a group, better informed, wiser, smarter or even more enlightened than older people. This is a fact of science and social science alike. We are born ignorant of the world we live in and only lose that ignorance over time.
Think about what you knew and understood at half your current age. Were you smarter then? Wiser? Why assume it works differently for anyone else?
“To all the generations before us,” Cameron Kasky, one of the Parkland survivors recently said on HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, “we sincerely accept your apology. And we appreciate that you are willing to let us rebuild the world that you f-—ed up.”
I get the passion. I get the rage and trauma behind it. But this nonsense is as pernicious as it is obnoxious (I’ve apologized for nothing, by the way, have you?). It’s also not true.
Young people today, and particularly young Americans, should be brimming with gratitude for the world they are inheriting. Lest you think this a cranky right-wing sentiment, let me align myself with Barack Obama: “If you had to choose a moment in time to be born, any time in human history, and you didn’t know ahead of time what nationality you were or what gender or what your economic status might be, you’d choose today.”
Kasky is standing on a soapbox built with the toil of previous generations and he’s taking a sledgehammer to it — because he doesn’t know better.
My hunch is that a great many people who take offense at my criticism do so either because of Kasky’s traumatic experience or because they agree with him — if not about the bankruptcy of the past then about his anti-gun agenda.
And that brings me to the second problem with the glorification of youth: It invariably involves powerful adults finding kids who agree with them on some issue and then claiming that all young people think this way (and then hiding behind the myth that we must listen to “the children”). If these Parkland kids came out for concealed-carry or arming teachers, you can be sure MSNBC would not be touting them in commercials.
But the most galling thing about adult partisans hiding behind kids is that it amounts to a kind of power-worship. “I know that whenever you disapprove of young people, you’re in the wrong,” the author Tim Kreider wrote in The New York Times, “because you’re going to die and they’ll get to write history.” Never mind that factually, this is balderdash.
Young people change their minds about lots of things as they get older, and historians rarely lock in the views of young people a few decades later. This is also ethically bankrupt because it assumes that whatever kids today believe will be right because the victors write the history, so we should just surrender to the youngest mob.
Democracy depends on arguments that are not contingent on your age. Lots of kids don’t understand that, but grown-ups are supposed to.
Jonah Goldberg, an American Enterprise Institute fellow and National
EVERY student that walks out should be expelled. The usage of public schools to advance the unconstitutional Demonrat agenda must be opposed with all appropriate force.
We have full-on propagandizing of our children. Expect a rough decade, coming, for gun control.
Flunk em. Next problem?