Yep in 2017 53 teenagers went to the hospital having eaten Tide Pods. 2018 is seeing an explosion in Tide Pod eating, the number may reach a couple hundred stupid teenagers by year end. (Most detergent pod eating is done by young children and the elderly)
Tens of thousands of students walked out yesterday.
But its the same people.
I support both. But I ONLY support walk up when you have firm control of your own boundaries and awareness of how you are being treated and when you are being manipulated. I really don’t want my kids walking up to a disturbed psychopath because “they just might be lonely and need a friend.”
Well, you are skipping school - they are unexcused absences - so sure, you can skip school, you can probably even get your dad to make it an excused absence since you went to lunch with him. It doesn’t take a protest to skip class - (April 20th is NOT a National Holiday, kid - although maybe all the kids who skipped that day were protesting the non-legalization of weed).
Our district marked them as unexcused. Students with an unexcused absence could not take part in extra-circulars that afternoon. They did permit students to make up work (which they don’t have to do with unexcused absences normally by district policy) since apparently it was a lot of the 4.0 students who were doing the walking out and because colleges had cut high school administrators off at the knees by telling prospective students “don’t worry about it.” So here, she could have walked out and made up any missed tests that day.
I don’t think that the schools should discipline the kids for walking out. I do see it as something that should actually be encouraged to be interested in political activities.
I am talking about the students you pointed out, and I am sure there are many others across the country, who took the opportunity to do some antisocial and even illegal activities.
You want to tear down a flag, I say go for it, as long as it is your flag and you are on your time. You want to jump on a police car, well, you can probably find an old one at a junkyard and go nuts.
I am sure that other students took the opportunity to sneak out for the rest of the day, to sneak off and smoke cigarettes or weed. I have no problem with disciplining any of them either.
Actually, I was just listening to the news in the car, and it does seem that at least some schools around here did issue detentions (they specifically mentioned 1000+ detentions at Downers Grove North and South high schools, with the note that something like almost 4K students remained in class.) And the students who got the detention considered the detentions a “badge of courage.” Like I said before, I’m fine with it, and I actually think the protest means more with the detention.
Part of the challenge is that when a lot of the student body walks out, disciplining them in a standard (everyone who missed class is going to get detention) puts a lot of pressure on the schools resources (how many teachers do you need to staff detention for 1000+ students - is that really a good use of teacher time and teacher morale?) Plus, with many colleges saying “yeah, we are going to look at walking out on this occasion positively” the punishment is less than the upside.
My daughter does online school, so she didn’t participate. I would’ve respected her decision either way. Our local high school is huge but they only had about 200 walk out. My daughter’s friend was one of them and she got served with a Saturday detention. I know some other local districts had kids walk out, I haven’t heard about any other detentions.
Choosing to engage in risky behavior while driving is extremely unrelated to being mowed down by a gun while in school. It’s disingenuous to equate the two whatsoever.
Like, if adults wanted to do something to fight poverty in America they should really speak out against the existence of alcohol.
It is true that texting while driving is a problem, and it is a problem for adults as well, but is completely unrelated to the problem of gun violence, and even less about the problem of mass shooters in schools.
Some students did in fact act out innaprptiley. But to try to smear the entire movement for the actions of a few is not really justftied, especially when most of the students were more like.
Sorry if that came out wrong. I’m glad to see the students organizing for an issue they feel strongly about.
Quite frankly I do feel this will be the start of some long lasting movement that might go so far as outright national gun bans in the US. This generation wasnt raised on John Wayne and playing with cap pistols like mine was.
You might read up on the effects of long-term bullying. That “disturbed psychopath” didn’t spring into being overnight; it took years of abuse from peers to create him.
Sounds like you might be in favor of research into the causes of gun violence. Too bad the Dickey Amendment, pushed by the NRA, discouraged the CDC from conducting such research.
While I absolutely agree that bullying is a problem, that needs much more attention than it gets, I will point out that most people who are bullied just punish themselves. They commit suicide, they get depressed and do poorly in school, stuff like that.
Maybe if you put the 2 together you might see a connection to a group of students destroying property for no good reason and someone killing people for no good reason.
We have a cultural problem with violence. Death by gun or any other method is still death. It’s the person doing the killing and removing tools from the scenario doesn’t address the violence or the outcome.