Student "Walk-Out" Peace Protest - DuPont Circle, Washington, DC - 2/21/03

On-Site Observation | February 21, 2003 | Kristinn (from the rally)

[doodad]

I was there then too, lived on Ft. McNair and went to St. John's up near Rock Creek Park.

[kristinn]

Thanks for posting this. It was kinda sad listening to the high school kids regurgitating the Marxist propaganda so well.

[montag813]

"Have Another Pretzel, President Bush,"

This is digusting. They are calling for the death of the President. If I ever saw anyone holding this sign I would have to be restrained from beating them unconscious.

[chemicalman]

Where are the trudent officers?

[dljordan]

Yeah, I'm sure these little mushheads thought this up on their own.

[YaYa123]

I'm firmly convinced now that these shallow, hate filled, unpatriotic, meanspirited malcontents, who hate President Bush more than they love America, will do more to win support for President Bush than anything imaginable.

America is watching and listening. These demonstrators can't be glorified by an approving media who loves reporting on the conflict more than they worry about the harm their reporting might do to our country.

[TightSqueeze]

Students are required to be in school. I don't know any clause they can skip for...

Oh feeble one, rules are not made to be obeyed but broken, or why do you think there would be a rule? Tune-in, turn-on, drop-out.

[TightSqueeze]

Why don't you ask fellow students at Baghdad High to walk out in protest against their president's warmongering?

As proof of your patriotism, why don't you soak yourself with gasoline and light a match to display your loyalty? same difference I guess.

[TightSqueeze]

Where are the trudent officers?

Last I heard they were getting wasted with the CIA agents, both inquired about your whereabouts though.

[INSENSITIVE GUY]

Why are the little basta*ds in school in the first place?If they can walk out like that,they obviously don't need an education.

[doug from upland]

re: daily average school attendance

I would suspect that they were marked present for the whole day so that the school would get the money. Someone needs to demand an audit to verify that the school officials were not committing fraud.

[Stultis]

It was kinda sad listening to the high school kids regurgitating the Marxist propaganda so well.

The little darlings have also voted this:

As the most popular t-shirt at t-shirtcountdown.com. The Che Gevara design is quite popular as well.

To all: You may want to freep this site if inclined (although I can't tell that it actually gets enough traffic to be worth the trouble) and/or upload patriotic t-shirt designs (although I have no idea how favorable their referral deal is, but posting your ware is supposedly free).

[gaspar]

The continuous anti-American protest being organized by students and Marxists in both the United States and Europe can be followed by accesssing indymedia.org for the USA and anything dealing with the European Social Forum in Europe. For example, it is possible to get local news from more than twenty European countries on last week's anti-American protests by accessing indymedia.org.

This is a well-financed campaign in Europe, but it is only getting started in America.

[tgslTakoma]

What years at St John's? I know folks who went there in the 60s, 70s, 80s...

[maica]

The hostage siege in Tehran was during the Carter administration. It ended the DAY that Ronald Reagan was elected - January 20, 1981! The 'eighties'were the 'Reagan years'

[jriemer]

I would suspect that they were marked present for the whole day so that the school would get the money. Someone needs to demand an audit to verify that the school officials were not committing fraud.

It's a nearly unverifiable crime.

A person or group would have to collect evidence (photos or video) supporting the assertion that school-age kids were in the rent-a-mob protesting around the White House on a school day. The students would have to be ID'd and matched to DC school attendance rosters for the affected schools. Without this type of evidence or a pile personal statement, there's no way to prove that the teachers and other education officials were commiting fraud.

In addition, there will be a contingent of useful idiots in the school system, the media and local politics that will hamper these effort and argue that the investigation will consume more money than what was lost by the student's truancy.

From the 60s to the present, civil disobediance by college students has evolved into the "perfect crime". I can say this because during a rally, student protestors are "stealing" countless credit hours of tuition that are paid for by their parents, Alumni-backed scholarships and Federal student loans. The protestors know we're the suckers. Now they're applying the same tactics on the High School and Middle School level.

Now keep this day in mind whenever student loan amnesty ever comes up in a conversation.

[staytrue]

an average cost of about $9,000 (per student)

For an average class size of 20 students per class room, this works out to be 180,000 per class room. If the teacher gets 70k and the rent on the room is 24k (2,000 per month which normally would be the rent on a small house.) that still leaves about 80k for "overhead". It's time to privatize I think.

[doodad]

Let's see...I was there in 1978 and 1979. Then transferred to Congressional in Falls Church.