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The gender madness gripping schools and other institutions across America has gotten so bad, even kids are sick of it. After Pennsylvania’s Perkiomen Valley School district failed to pass a common-sense policy requiring students to use the bathroom that corresponds to their biological sex, hundreds of kids stood up and cried out, No more. They staged a walkout and a protest in response to this abdication of adult responsibility by the very people charged with their care and education. “Kids were upset. Girls … we wanted to protect them. They were upset. They didn’t want men in their bathroom,” said...

And if the media could assign blame in those deaths to guns, SUVs or Conservatives, they would The deadly school shooting last month in Parkland, Florida sparked national outrage and more action on gun control… because “guns kill,” or so the left would like everyone to believe. Students across the country took to the streets with fists raised, in front of television cameras, egged on by leftist teachers and parents, to demand mass gun control. One month after the Parkland school shooting, on March 14, students and school teachers and administrators walked out of classrooms, supposedly calling for gun reform,...

As she addressed the crowd during the walkout at her Idaho high school, Kylee Denny faced heckles and name-calling from a group of students carrying American flags, she said. The counterprotesters included many familiar faces, including her boyfriend's stepbrother. To avoid making a difficult situation worse, Kylee's boyfriend stayed in class during the rally at Hillcrest High School in Idaho Falls, which was part of Wednesday's national school walkout. "I'm dating his stepbrother, which is really incredibly awkward and it's very tense because he was being so hostile about losing respect for me because I was walking out," said Kylee,...

On Wednesday, thousands of students across America participated in a national school walkout to agitate for gun control one month after the mass shooting at Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida. While many of the protestors from more than 3,000 separate events are staying on their school campuses to protest, some have marched on their local statehouses and even Capitol Hill itself to demand new gun control laws. Prominent Democratic politicians like Sen. Chris Murphy (CT), Sen. Richard Blumenthal (CT), Sen. Bernie Sanders (VT), Rep. Luis Gutierrez (IL), and others walked out of the Capitol building to personally speak to...

If students playing hooky solved gun violence, mass shootings would have ended decades ago — kids, just ask your parents if they ever cut class. That’s not going to stop today’s students from trying again. At 10 a.m. today, students from a dozen Las Vegas schools will walk out of their classes for 17 minutes as part of the National School Walkout. ... One proposal is to ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines. “It’s all in the title — assault weapons don’t protect, they harm and too easily these deadly weapons can be bought, sold and distributed within the borders...

Clare Schexnyder wants students and teachers across the country to leave their classrooms together, to protest every child and educator who has been killed in a school shooting and promote gun control.And the Georgia mother is getting much press about her National School Walkout as well as swelling support from all corners of the country. She is getting help from the organizers of the Women’s March too.Certainly a red flag. But curiously when reporters and Schexnyder discuss the activist’s plans and background they seem to always omit the fact she worked nearly two decades at CNN as a senior...