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Posted on 03/13/2018 5:46:56 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
Parents across the country are being urged to let their children participate in the National School Walkout on March 14. Yet, few parents (and kids!) understand the walkout’s true mission. At my children’s elementary school in Northern Virginia, school officials are telling parents the walkout is meant to memorialize the 17 victims of the school shooting in Parkland, Florida.
Yet, according to the National School Walkout website, the real mission of the walkout is to demand Congress pass more restrictive gun laws. The website specifically states: “Students and allies are organizing the national school walkout to demand Congress pass legislation … Congress must take meaningful action … and pass federal gun reform legislation.”
So, the children walking out of the classroom on March 14th won’t be spending the time in quiet prayer or reflection. Instead, school kids (even those in elementary school) are going to be used as props by professional anti-gun activists to push for specific legislation.
Some schools are even aiding in the effort by coordinating with the walkout organizers, providing “safe spaces” for kids who participate in the walkout, promoting the event on school Facebook and Twitter accounts, and allowing school buses to transport kids to and from gun control rallies.
Considering that many public schools are helping to rally more kids to the cause and are even supplying school resources and personnel time to the effort, tax payers should ask: Is this an acceptable use of school funds? More importantly, why is a publicly funded school supporting one side of a very contentious and complex constitutional matter?
Some might even wonder: What other political causes can I expect my public school to promote? Should conservatives in politically red areas of the country expect schools to help transport kids to next year’s March for Life? Or how about for the inauguration on the Mall when Trump is reelected in 2020?
Educators should also be concerned that the politicization of this issue avoids the nuance of what went wrong in Parkland that allowed the terrible shooting to occur, and what policies might actually help prevent the next one.
For instance, we now know that between 2008 and 2017, the Broward County sheriff’s office received 45 calls from concerned citizens related to the Parkland shooter and his brother. Social workers visited the his house multiple times. Yet, none of these reports (which included threats of violence and warnings that these troubled boys had access to weapons) were entered into the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS). If these many incidents had been logged into NICS, the shooter wouldn’t have passed a background check, and he wouldn’t have been able to purchase a firearm.
This isn’t just a problem in Broward County. According to a 2016 audit by the Justice Department, all 50 states are guilty of not properly submitting records to the database. Even mental health information largely goes unreported. Considering this, parents might want to ask if their own police departments and social service networks are consistently reporting incidents to the NICS.
They also might want to consider that at Parkland, three Broward County Sherriff’s deputies stood down outside the school, which allowed Cruz to continue his killing spree. Pushing for better police training and more effective communication with local schools is another area where parents should focus.
And there are more important areas to explore, such as the actions of the armed school resource officer employed by Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Instead of trying to keep students safe (as he was trained to do), he huddled in a stairwell with his gun holstered. In light of this, parents might want to ask questions about the level of training their school’s resource officers are receiving.
Americans ought to vigorously debate these issues, but we should also recognize that new laws won’t make a difference if they go unenforced. Moreover, there are already 300-plus million guns in the United States. That means regardless of how we restrict gun ownership, we need to be prepared to respond to acts of violence in the future.
Sadly, many parents have decided to pass on these hard questions and instead join a movement that is using children as props in a complex policy issue. We can all agree that children deserve safety and security at school. There are ways to help move toward that goal, but taking advantage of our kids for political ends isn’t one of them.
MAGA!
Ping-Worthy?
Not one word from any of these kids on the right to bear arms. Their ignorance is overwhelming.
Is this an acceptable use of school funds?
NO, this is called Theft of Taxpayer Funds and the US Attorney’s office should be Criminally Charging Every last educator and administrator if they apply for funds for the day or turn in a fraudulent Attendance Record
And students are being told that they have to participate.
Some schools are permitting students to “opt out” of the walk out but they must still walk out of their classes and “wait” in the gym or auditorium until the activist protest is over.
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WHAT?! No way. I really don’t like these people.
“Some schools are permitting students to “opt out” of the walk out but they must still walk out of their classes and “wait” in the gym or auditorium until the activist protest is over.”
Great optics for the Evening Enemy Media News, Eh? Makes it look like EVERYONE agrees with this useless stupidity.
*SPIT*
I’m still contending that after all of this foolishness is over, not a single thing is going to change.
The Crazies are STILL going to be shootin’ up Dodge City on a regular basis.
Mental health. Mental health. Mental HEALTH...is the issue!
I’m SHOCKED! SHOCKED!! (No, I’m not)
Mental health IS the issue. Lock up the crazies.
They kill with guns.
They kill with cars.
They kill with poisons.
They kill with knives.
They kill with pillows.
They kill with fists.
The pills help them “pass” for normal but they are not. Eventually they have an episode, a major malfunction. Sometimes because they’ve stopped taking their meds, or augment their meds with recreational drugs or alcohol.
How many of these drugs list aggression and suicidal thoughts as possible side effects?
If they are not to be held accountable for their actions by reason of insanity then they shouldn’t be roaming anywhere without a legal guardian by them at all times.
Mrs. l’s school district’s staff has been instructed to be completely neutral; no speaking for or against the walkout itself or about the issues it attempts to address. Students cannot be academically penalized for participating (no tests or quizzes) and attendance is to be taken again at 10:18.
There is a long list of anti-American organizations for “Our Partners” on their web site:
https://www.womensmarch.com/enough/
ActLocal
Action Together Network (ATN)
Amplifier
The Article 20 Network
Blue Future
Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence
The California Association of Student Leaders
The Campaign to Keep Guns off Campus
Center for American Progress Action Fund
Center for Popular Democracy
Coalition to Stop Gun Violence
Community Justice Reform Coalition
Corazón Latino
CREDO
Day One
Doctors for America
Earth Guardians, Inc
Faith Community of St. Sabina
Fun Lovers Unite
The Gathering for Justice / Justice League NYC
Gays Against Guns
Generation Progress
The Giffords: Courage to Fight Gun Violence
Granite State Progress
The Harry Potter Alliance
Herd on the Hill
High School Democrats of America
Mi Familia Vota
MomsRising
National Council of Jewish Women
National LGBTQ Task Force
National School Walkout
New Voters
Newtown Action Alliance
No Notoriety
North Carolinians Against Gun Violence
Northern Virginia Chapter, Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence
NYC Asian-American Democratic Club
NYU Medical School
OFA Nevada
Ohio Student Association
One Pulse for America
Organizing for Action
Peace First
Peace Over Violence
People Demanding Action
Planned Parenthood Federation of America
Indivisible
Indivisible Chicago
Indivisible Illinois
Junior Newtown Action Alliance
Maine Gun Safety Coalition
Marylanders Against Gun Violence
Platform
Postcards for America
Progress South Carolina
Progressive Change Campaign Committee
Progressive Turnout Project
Rabbis Against Gun Violence
Rising Organizers
Rock the Vote
Safe Haven School
Safe Tennessee Project
Stop Handgun Violence
Stop School Shootings Now
Storefront Academy Harlem
Sunrise Movement
Survivors Empowered
Town Hall Project
University of Pennsylvania Law School American Constitution Society
Walkout PA 2018
WAVE Educational Fund
We of Action (WofA)
Wilson Human Rights Club
Women’s March Global
Youth Global Advocacy PAC
Youth in Front
Used t be people marched for civil rights.
Now they march against them.
Commie public school teachers are the new rulers, and very few political/regulator class socialists in either party care enough about consequences to do anything about it. I’m not surprised, especially with the day’s cheering for political correctness in other ways.
This is the public school system, the cradle and cauldron of the initiation into progressive thought.
Lots of schools cancelled a/c snow here in MA.
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Teacher Union’s Hitler Youth March
National Teacher Union abuses children.
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IOW, all these kids are nothing more than puppets for the NWO, useful idiots who will someday outlive their usefulness and then be disposed of, callously and ruthlessly.
Ping-Worthy? No It’s not serious enough
There’s not enough in there for me to list it in my site of postings in FR’s regarding Parkland. While Federalist’s Julie Gunlock (ahem very interesting forename ???) goes into some of what went on at Parkland. She also cites 2016 stats coming from the Fed when Holder was still there and with it those disastrous failed policies the Obama administration created through the DOJ.
http://www.theusmat.com/index.htm
I’m just hoping that these school walkouts, that are announced in advance to the whole world, don’t end up being killing fields as the schools are providing some sniper the perfect kill opportunity.
After the Las Vegas stuff and the FL school shooting, I wouldn’t put ANYTHING past the gun control advocates to push their agenda, even sacrificing more students.
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