A wave of student walkouts has washed over the country in the last month, with secondary school students leaving campus to protest ICE activity in Oklahoma, Illinois, Virginia, Texas, Washington state, Ohio, Florida, and more. In Texas, the state is
Free to organize a protest, waive signs, yell and stomp your feet on your own time. With social media it’s easy to set up. But the purpose here is to leverage the publicly funded school to broadcast their political message.
The author manages to spend paragraph after paragraph describing the legal implications of this and that issue in public schools, but never pulls back the curtain to make clear that these problems are all the result of having government-run schools in the first place. Everything that anyone deplores about government schools would be solved by closing them. The marketplace is adept in finding ways to please new customers and would flourish, and all the legal agonies the author deplores would vanish (each school would set its own rules about student protests), once the cold, dead bureaucracies of so-called "public" schools have been dissolved once and for all.
Schools present students the opportunity to learn. They cannot force students to learn. Continue to give homework, accept and grade homework, and give exams. Students can protest on their own time. If students want to protest during school time they need to make arrangements with the teachers to do and turn in their coursework and take their exams. If they want to do that without the advantage of in-class teaching and review, so be it.
Free to organize a protest, waive signs, yell and stomp your feet on your own time. With social media it’s easy to set up. But the purpose here is to leverage the publicly funded school to broadcast their political message.
Yes, but they should be punished for skipping class.
It’s truancy.
The author manages to spend paragraph after paragraph describing the legal implications of this and that issue in public schools, but never pulls back the curtain to make clear that these problems are all the result of having government-run schools in the first place. Everything that anyone deplores about government schools would be solved by closing them. The marketplace is adept in finding ways to please new customers and would flourish, and all the legal agonies the author deplores would vanish (each school would set its own rules about student protests), once the cold, dead bureaucracies of so-called "public" schools have been dissolved once and for all.
Some adults could use that refresher on how civil disobedience works.
Schools present students the opportunity to learn. They cannot force students to learn. Continue to give homework, accept and grade homework, and give exams. Students can protest on their own time. If students want to protest during school time they need to make arrangements with the teachers to do and turn in their coursework and take their exams. If they want to do that without the advantage of in-class teaching and review, so be it.
Yes they do IF AND ONLY IF THEY UNDERSTAND WHY THEY ARE