1.1 Million Students in N.Y.C. Can Skip School for Climate Protest

New York Times ^ | September 16, 2019 | Anne Barnard

[karpov]

For some reason I think a lot fewer high school students would attend a climate strike on a Saturday morning.

Pro-life and pro-gun rallies should also be held on Fridays during the school year. Public schools cannot constitutionally allow participation in some political rallies and not others.

[BenLurkin]

bttt!

[BenLurkin]

bttt!

[momincombatboots]

Can we withhold federal tax dollars for that day if so many kids are out? We don’t pay for days they are off in the summer.

[joma89]

I am kind of sick of seeing references on FreeRepublic to the crappy nyt newspaper. All the people who work there are all horrible people and it is really not even worth reading since it is always party line, leftist doublespeak.

JoMa

[butlerweave]

It’s a Scam you stupid kids

[PROCON]

Will Greta be there?

[Nateman]

Terrorizing all those young skulls full of mush. Another reason why I say give up on these State Indoctrination Camps euphemistically called public schools. Just cut the funding period, they are too far gone to the left side.

[Dilbert San Diego]

They are concerned some kids would take advantage of the opportunity to skip school for fun?? Really? When it’s so obvious at least to liberals, that they need to be protesting global warming???

[magna carta]

ABSOLUTELY!

[adorno]

This is liberals using the young, naive, ignorant, dumb, clueless...

to do their dirty work.

These students, at least most of them, have no idea about climate change, and why they’re being taken advantage of as useful tools.

[irv]

Prediction: A very large number of kids will skip school and then not go to any climate rally.

There will be an “unexpected” spike in petty crime.

[Bernard Marx]

Public schools cannot constitutionally allow participation in some political rallies and not others.

They don't need no steenkin" Constitution.

[lightman]

G-d help us when these brainwashed little zombies can vote.

[cgbg]

Most kids are way too smart to believe in the “climate change” cargo cult.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

The average NYC student isn't worth a bucket of warm spit. Every one with few exceptions will end up a parasite of the state in some capacity. The more successful ones will land a government job-for-life. The typical, less successful ones will go straight from school to food stamps, medicaid, and welfare. It's a "fambly" tradition.
 

[dsc]

New York City needs to jump up its own behind, then keep jumping until it disappears.

[tbw2]

Moral peacocking endorsed by those in power. The kids aren’t allowed out, they’re pressured to go, like the “climate protests” in Sweden Greta Thunberg led while kids who stayed inside were bullied by TEACHERS.

Swedish schoolgirl who refused to take part in one of campaigner Greta Thunberg’s ‘climate strikes’ is ‘bullied by her own teacher’ and labelled a ‘climate denier’
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7062517/Swedish-girl-bullied-not-participating-Greta-Thunberg-climate-strike.html

[tbw2]

“For the planet” has replaced “for the children” as liberals’ rallying cry. Children grow up. The planet never speaks except through self-appointed representatives.

[tbw2]

In her native EU, Greta Thunberg’s “student protests” were not only endorsed by liberals in power - they punished children who did NOT participate.

Swedish schoolgirl who refused to take part in one of campaigner Greta Thunberg’s ‘climate strikes’ is ‘bullied by her own teacher’ and labelled a ‘climate denier’
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7062517/Swedish-girl-bullied-not-participating-Greta-Thunberg-climate-strike.html