National School Walkout (demand, activity, valid, graders)
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And if everyone walked out, and were home-schooled and autodidactic, there would be no need for a walkout .... or an "educational" bureaucracy .... or teachers' unions .... or high taxes ..... or school violence .... or ....
Last edited by 2nd trick op; 02-18-2018 at 10:18 AM..
Mod note - Let's keep this thread on the discussion of the potential walk out itself and not get into politics. I've deleted one comment that would have hi-jacked the thread. As a side note- I think that an actual date has not been set, in fact I just heard a date of March 24 for a Washington March instead.
Mod note - Let's keep this thread on the discussion of the potential walk out itself and not get into politics. I've deleted one comment that would have hi-jacked the thread. As a side note- I think that an actual date has not been set, in fact I just heard a date of March 24 for a Washington March instead.
I don't think I linked to it before, but this is the event I'm referencing:
What do you think of the proposed National School Walkout on March 14? Women’s March Youth EMPOWER is calling for students, teachers and administrators to walk out of school at 10 am on that day for 17 minutes to protest Congress’ inaction in the wake of school shootings.
My initial thought is I’m leary of participating in such an action (it’s a declared “protest”) with my elementary students. We are always told to keep our political views out of our teaching. We are not supposed to push a political agenda. Colleagues seem to be biting at the bit to participate, but wouldn’t we be using the school day and our students as political pawns?
I have heard several different dates for walkouts. My understanding was that they were supposed to be student led, and I thought were only for HS students. I don't think they really apply to elementary school. I can't imagine any elementary teacher taking their class for a walkout. I support the cause, but would never even dream of doing that. I could understand a HS teacher allowing students to choose to participate on their own, but definitely not walking an entire class out either.
Thank you for your thoughtful post. Your points support my thinking.
To me a protest should have a specific, targeted result beyond “some action needs to be taken”. What do we want? A ban of all gun sales? A ban of only certain guns? No ban of any kind? Trained teachers with guns? More $ for mental health? Stricter background checks? Longer waiting periods? Who’s to say?
Who’s to say? All of us. And instead politicians have been trying to trot out the old “now is not the time” nonsense.
It bizarre to expect people who are protesting to also have written policy. That is literally what Congress is for, to determine what policy beat fits their constituents wants.
I teach at a public magnet school that is typically considered fairly conservative, has a mandatory JROTC program and send more than 10% of its students to the military academies and even more to college on ROTC scholarships. Even those kids have already approached me about the walkout when it was just chatter on social media and no date picked. You are underestimating who is interested in this walkout because if even the JROTC kids want to walkout it is a widespread message.
A 17-minute walk-out won't really do much. Perhaps students around the country should not go back to school until something is done at the federal level. May take a few months, but something with get done when parents have their kids at home all day for a prolonged time.
That's a good idea. It would throw the ball into the Congress's court. But honestly I don't think Congress would respond, even if every single school in the country was shut down indefinitely. They would just go on with business as usual. If kids dying doesn't move them to action, why would the schools being shut down cause them to act?
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