[Angelwood]

Kristinn called in this report. He'll probably have more comments later when he gets home.

The students seemed to spend their time bashing President Bush and whining about needing more money for their education.

[Nick Thimmesch]

Cool: although today I ain't the same, plenty of us DC kids in the late 60's/early 70's had loads of fun with the "anti-war" culture that thrived in the Nation's Capital. It's a click thing....

[jmc813]

Kristinn called in this report. He'll probably have more comments later when he gets home.

That's so funny. I had always assumed that Kristinn was a woman judging from his screen name. Sorry Kristinn!

[Dan from Michigan]

Most students there.

"Get out of class? Woo Hoo. I'll be there, where's the beer?"

[Keith]

They would all get zeros for the day in my class...

[PetroniDE]

OK -- Pop Quiz. Anybody missing gets a ZERO.

[jriemer]

The students seemed to spend their time bashing President Bush and whining about needing more money for their education.

Too bad these DC students' flirt with truancy shot their schools in the foot. Federal funding is based on daily average school attendance. This little stunt may have cost the DC school district thousands of Federal education dollars for today absentees. This policy has been in place since the Carter administration.

Ironically if they really wanted to do something about their schools education funding, they could have stayed in school and not blamed the President. But that doesn't send a political message.

[BurbankKarl]

no doubt they filed out after all their heads were counted in home room, assuring their daily student renumeration.

[mountaineer]

There's supposed to be a nationwide college student anti-war "strike" on March 5 (thread here), so expect more of this nonsense.

[bmwcyle]

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

[Loyalist]

One question for the protestors:

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

[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?

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.