FAIRFAX HIGH (L.A.) STUDENTS WALK OUT OF CLASS AND BLOCK STREET IN ANTI-WAR DEMONSTRATION

KABC RADIO in Los Angeles | 1-27-02 | dfu

[doug from upland]

I need some help with this story if others heard it. Larry Elder gave info today about the principal of Fairfax High in Los Angeles allowing 600 students to walk out of class and demonstrate against a war with Iraq.

The little fools actually blocked a public street. They was no advance notice given to the police. I also think I heard that debris was thrown by the peace demonstrators.

Who has more details? I cannot believe that a principal would allow this. They are under his care when they are at school, yet he let them go out into a street blocking traffic. If someone got hurt, how quickly would Johnny Cockroach been there to file a $20 million lawsuit.

The school board needs to put heat on this clown for allowing it. Would he have allowed a pro-war demonstration? An anti-abortion demonstration? A prayer in school demonstration? A pro-voucher demonstration? I think not.

[Partisan Hack]

Raging for peace alert.

[TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig]

Let's get a pool going to pay for shipping them to Iraq as human shields.

[wizzler]

I wouldn't worry too much about it, frankly. The more this kind of thing happens -- goofy high-school protests and such -- the more the populace at large will realize that most "anti-war" sentiment is an emotional, knee-jerk product of underdeveloped minds.

[Henchster]

"...the principal of Fairfax High in Los Angeles allowing 600 students to walk out of class and demonstrate against a war with Iraq. "

Doug, I don't know the whole story, but I can guess that we need the old Hench De-Spin-erator:

"...the principal of Fairfax High in Los Angeles BEGGING 600 students to walk out of class and demonstrate against a war with Iraq."

[PRND21]

The little fools...

You'd rather kids paid no attention to politics? Only if they agree with you, right.
Cut the kids some slack, they are within their rights and practicing what the country was founded upon.

Put your claws back in and let them participate.

[ffusco]

I bet 600 kid spent the day on Melrose Avenue at the used record stores, Jamba Juice and Urban Outfitters and a hot pastrami at Cantor's Deli

[doug from upland]

You'd rather kids paid no attention to politics? Only if they agree with you, right.
Cut the kids some slack, they are within their rights and practicing what the country was founded upon.

Put your claws back in and let them participate.

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My claws? Put on your thinking cap. This post was mainly directed at a principal who should have had his kids in school. That is what the taxpayers footing the bill expect. Hey, how about this. They could do it after school. The principal is in charge of the kids while they are at his school. He is their surrogate parent at that time. What in the hell was he thinking? What if someone got run over when they ran out onto Melrose? This was outrageous by this principal.

[Dan from Michigan]

The little fools

Nah, they aren't fools. They got to walk out of "prison", I mean class and they jumped all over it. If I was there, I'd walk out too.

Flame away......

[ffusco]

High school isn't Berkeley pal. Activism is great after school. Those kids were just skipping class!

[doug from upland]

Principal Heather Daims. Their congressman is . . . . . . . . . . Henry Waxman.

[PRND21]

This post was mainly directed at a principal

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the little fools

The kids exercized their right. Does the Principal have the right to grant that right? Perhaps we'll find out.
Sorry about the claw thing. ;)

[doug from upland]

Claw remark forgiven. Yes, I called them little fools. But the main culprit is a principal who took on liability. She had no right to do that. Her job is to make sure they attend class, have a safe learning evironment, and stay out of trouble. Can you imagine if someone were hurt? How much would it cost the taxpayers?

[PRND21]

High school isn't Berkeley pal.

College isn't quite Berkeley, bud.

[ffusco]

LOL Pratt Institute grad since 91.

[PRND21]

Architecture/Int. Design?

[Mr. Mojo]

When we finally take care of business in Iraq, liberating the populace (who will be seen celebrating in the streets of Baghdad on everyone's TV) and discovering tons of WMD (that the liberals claimed Saddam didn't possess), there will be more eggs on more leftist faces than at any time in recent memory. But when these so-called "peace" activists can finally see that the Iraqi populace was living under one of the most cruel dictatorships on the face of the earth and that they were supporting this dictatorship with their demonstrations, will they admit their folly? Not a freakin' chance.

[Rain-maker]

How lovely for our education tax dollars to be used to promote insurrection and anti-social behavoir.

Just another reason to support private and home schooling.

[ffusco]

Industrial Design, you?

[happygrl]

No they won't admit their folly.

There will just be a big space in their brain cavity where deductive reasoning should have taken place.

They will pretend that the media "covered up" the war dead, that the expressions of gratitude by Iraqis were "staged", that the government that comes afterward is "just as bad," ad nauseum.

These people can't be reasoned with, because their postions aren't based on reason, but on self delusions and emotional flights of fantasy.