[EBH]

Dear Parents,

Yes, I am placing this squarely in the laps of parents...

Do you know where your children are? It is time to discuss 'real life' with them and burst the socialist dream and brainwashing?

[Never on my watch]

Truancy is still a criminal offense isn't it?

[library user]

What type of walkout starts at 2pm? School is practically over for the week. LOL.

[FrankR]

The unions are so short of support they are "recruiting" school kids to get involved in that dangerous situation at the capital with those union thugs.

[DManA]

They didn’t end collective bargaining. The compromise measure allow them to bargain for wages.

[treetopsandroofs]

“as union members, now have no bargaining rights”

Isn’t this a lie????

I thought it left collective bargaining in place for salaries, no?

[cripplecreek]

Suspension.

[fwdude]

Plan a major test late in the afternoon. No makeups allowed.

[bkepley]

Making good little socialists out of them.

[albie]

Parents will turn a blind eye and attribute this as a “learning experience” in civics. They don’t want to be responsible for their kids from 8-5 because they work and have been trained to believe that the public school system takes over these hours.

[hinckley buzzard]

Gee, a bunch of high school kids are given an excuse to leave school a couple hours early on a Friday, and they all sign up. Whaddasupprise.

[Redleg Duke]

"...their teachers—who, as union members, now have no bargaining rights..."

Keep telling the lie until they belive it.

[Sacajaweau]

Within a month of my then 5 year old starting kindergarten in the Public School, she came home and told me her techer was poor....because they weren't paid a lot.

I put her in Catholic school and my next two kids went "Catholic", too. Never regretted it for a moment!!

[ReverendJames]

It’s the Unions through the teachers that are pushing the students to do this.

[Jim W N]

Who cares if the brainwashed students walk out. Let ‘em. Maybe its better - enroll them in an educational program that actually teaches them about the freedoms and values our country was founded on.

[AngelesCrestHighway]

Get your collective asses back in class!!!

[tacticalogic]

Banks acknowledged that some student participants "will be better informed than others, just as some adults are better informed than others." To make the walkout educational, the students are also holding a teach-in on the Library Mall in downtown Madison to discuss the "effects of collective bargaining elimination on public education, as well as the proposed education cuts in the Biennial Budget."

Maybe someone should discuss with them the corruption and "sweetheart deals" like the health insurance company owned by the union, how much it's costing the taxpayers, and what it's going to do to their state's budgets and future tax burden if it's allowed to continue.

[antiRepublicrat]

Thanks to a controversial legislative maneuver,

A controversial legislative maneuver would be leaving the state to avoid a quorum, or Pelosi's "deeming" or unaccountable voice votes. All that happened here is that the senators present in session passed a bill with a simple majority. How is that a "legislative maneuver"?

[Jean2]

I don’t understand why should the stupid students care? This collective bargaining doesn’t affect them! It affects the teachers.

[MsLady]

Tell the little brats that if they don’t end collective bargaining, they won’t be getting an allowance anymore. Or those cool shoes and clothes they love so well. Because it’ll all be going to pay for the teachers excessive benefits.

[Pearls Before Swine]

I have 3 kids at UW Madison. I guess I raised them right, or maybe they are sensitive to the fact that I pay out of state tuition. They think the students who cheer for this are, as Lenin used to say, “useful idiots.”