So great seeing our young people waking up and standing up

[Desdichado]

Oh yeah. I love Dem.

He's my last best hope for a global worker's revolution.

Can't decide if Dem is a really awesome troll or if he is totally incapable of critical and strategical thought. He can't seem to respond to any of my logical points in other threads....so....I'm just guessing....

P.S. Same with Laura.

 

[hornetguy]

Oh yeah. I love Dem.

He's my last best hope for a global worker's revolution.

Yeah.... that should start about, what, 9:45 this morning? Or maybe tomorrow....

 

[Dude653]

Do you speak out about the murdering of unborn babies,
as much as you do for taking guns from law abiding citizens?

Non sequitur

 

[tourist]

Energized high schoolers rally across US in school walkouts: 'You don't want your brother, sister ... to be the next victims' - ABC News

So great seeing our young people waking up and standing up

I'm not really impressed with kids skipping school. This accomplishes absolutely nothing in reducing violence in schools. The best way to address violence is to allow God back into the schools, allow the teacher's to discipline the unruly students, and for parents to properly raise their kids to not be bullies and to respect those in authority. I really don't see any great awakening from the student body at all, walking out is just an excuse for skipping school.

 

[Tommy379]

I've been reading about the schools being perfectly ok with students skipping to protest for gun control, while at the same schools, they have punished students who skipped to counter-protest.

 

[awolnation]

Wonder how many days of school Jewish kids skipped during the Holocaust to protest gun control.

I wonder how many days it's been since most N Korean kids have had a proper meal, with a relatively flourishing S Korea right across the border...but they will get shot by their own government for crossing that border.

Thank goodness for legislative advice from tide pod-swallowing highschoolers.

 

[PennEd]

The ignorance in this thread is a true testament to the great job of indoctrination in our schools and media.

Some points:

ALL Automatic weapons HAVE BEEN illegal since 1986, and most of them since 1935.

Many would like to raise the gun purchase age to 21. That is fine, BUT DO NOT EXPECT MY SONS, 19 and 20 to suddenly go fight on foreign soil WITH A GUN, if they can't even protect their own home.

If you've ever seen the gun making show on A&E you would know it isn't terribly difficult to make a gun. On top of that, there are 3-D printers that are capable in making guns. You would have to confiscate them as well.

Many here would never THINK of outlawing vehicles if this evil person had mowed down 17 kids playing outside, or forced a school bus off a cliff, or about a thousand other ways he could have murdered people. But seem hell bent on blaming an inanimate object, instead of evil.

The 2nd amendment is an integral part of our Constitution. Those that engaged in unlawful behavior in cutting class, and many of whom committed other crimes while out, would be castigated by ALL if they protested other parts of our Constitution like free speech, exercise of Religion, innocent til proven guilty etc.... COMPLETELY APPLES TO APPLES.

So what is the partial solution? Yes, we as Christians KNOW that Christ is the ultimate solution, and many are VERY uncomfortable talking about fatherless children, especially boys, but INTACT families will go a long way.

[video=youtube;d6phuIwHecQ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6phuIwHecQ[/video]

 

[tourist]

I've been reading about the schools being perfectly ok with students skipping to protest for gun control, while at the same schools, they have punished students who skipped to counter-protest.

Believe me, if these kids skipped school in protest of legal abortion at anytime of pregnancy up until the moment of birth they would be expelled.

 

[AdolfHipster]

They should protest something that goes against our constitutional rights instead. The Federal Reserve, the national debt (younger generation will pay for the sins of this generation and past generations' sins), etc... Protest anything but our rights for crying out loud.

Can you imagine if students skipped school until the Federal Reserve and the national debt get resolved? lol

 

[laura_charlotte]

Absolutely, but it is not enough, and truly, they should NOT have to do this. It is up to the adult in our society to see to it that our citizens are protected.

Mississippi boy, 9, fatally shoots teen sister in head over video game controller, police say | Fox News

Yes, learned adults need to take a stand and intervene. There should not be a need to lead any protests at all from students missing out on their education for such a basic necessity. There are many issues with this being ingrained in society and change will be a long time coming, but every step of the way counts and I'm so glad things are turning around for the much needed positive.

 

[Susanna]

Believe me, if these kids skipped school in protest of legal abortion at anytime of pregnancy up until the moment of birth they would be expelled.

Isn't it ironic that they most likely wouldn't be around to protest if previous generations were equally eager to establish legal abortion?

 

[tourist]

Isn't it ironic that they most likely wouldn't be around to protest if previous generations were equally eager to establish legal abortion?

Abortion is a form of genocide and is legal murder of the unborn.

 

[tourist]

They should protest something that goes against our constitutional rights instead. The Federal Reserve, the national debt (younger generation will pay for the sins of this generation and past generations' sins), etc... Protest anything but our rights for crying out loud.

Can you imagine if students skipped school until the Federal Reserve and the national debt get resolved? lol

I'm very much concerned with the Federal Reserve and the national dept. That debt cannot possibly be paid in the next 100 years. Eventually, the US will have to default on their debt obligation and the result will be the complete collapse of the economic system as it is now known. Kids today only protest Democratic causes. They have been brainwashed by the propaganda fed to them in the school system since kindergarten.

 

[AdolfHipster]

Mississippi boy, 9, fatally shoots teen sister in head over video game controller, police say | Fox News

Yes, learned adults need to take a stand and intervene. There should not be a need to lead any protests at all from students missing out on their education for such a basic necessity. There are many issues with this being ingrained in society and change will be a long time coming, but every step of the way counts and I'm so glad things are turning around for the much needed positive.

This sounds like a totalitarian's dream story if I've ever heard one. You get to attack guns and violent video games, both of which are not responsible for gun violence. Ignore the facts which show that as gaming has gone up, violent crimes have gone down. If this kind of story makes you want the government to remove your constitutional rights, then I'll post a story about an underage kid who takes his parents' car and kills someone. Maybe you'll cut up your driver's license then? (I don't mean 'you' personally as you're Australian, I meant an American.) The irony is, driving is a "privileged" and not a right like guns are.

 

[7777pinacled]

you mean " young people getting influenced by the liberal media to push a gun control agenda ". that is what the walkout is about.

And encouraging minors to be absent from school?
As if provoking children to wrath will sovle problems; No, this is evil.

 

[laura_charlotte]

And encouraging minors to be absent from school? As if provoking children to wrath will sovle problems; No, this is evil.

I made the essentially the same claim in my previous opening statement:

There should not be a need to lead any protests at all from students missing out on their education for such a basic necessity.

However the latter part of your message is incorrect. Educating children on social issues in society is part of the national curriculum. How to intervene and make a change in the world is not provoking or evil at all, it's totally necessary and a vital part of our philosophy within school. It prevents so many problems within the students themselves, their behaviour at school and their lives in the world as a direct result.

 

[Oncefallen]

Can you imagine if students skipped school until the Federal Reserve and the national debt get resolved? lol

Well, if that happened the debt might get paid off pretty quick since that would be hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of school district salaries not being paid.

 

[PennEd]

I made the essentially the same claim in my previous opening statement:



However the latter part of your message is incorrect. Educating children on social issues in society is part of the national curriculum. How to intervene and make a change in the world is not provoking or evil at all, it's totally necessary and a vital part of our philosophy within school. It prevents so many problems within the students themselves, their behaviour at school and their lives in the world as a direct result.

Please simply teach OUR children readin, ritin, and rithmatic!! That seems to MORE than most school districts can handle! Leave morality, and "social issues" to parents, as my issues almost certainly don't align with most teachers.

Why do you think the home schooling movement has exploded?

 

[oldethennew]

the problem is, what are they really 'waking-up & standing-up for!!!

some research and discernment needs to be done on this here 'topic'...

 

[laura_charlotte]

Please simply teach OUR children readin, ritin, and rithmatic!! That seems to MORE than most school districts can handle! Leave morality, and "social issues" to parents, as my issues almost certainly don't align with most teachers.

Why do you think the home schooling movement has exploded?

I believe you're referring to numeracy and literacy. In recent days at my school we've just had black history celebration. Here are two exerts from my own lesson plans when we explored social justice, racism and prejudice:

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Our curriculum aims to provide children with a global education, one which will empower them to, as global citizens, meet the challenges of their times. For us, global education includes, but is much more than learning about the world and its people. It naturally includes international and intercultural education, but global education extends to focus on issues and concerns that affect people and the planet as a whole.

It provides children with an appreciation of interdependence and includes development of ethical and moral thinking in relation to these complex issues. The goal is to promote a sense of social responsibility and positive actions that can help promote sustainable futures for all. None of this could be achieved and there would be severe gaps in the growing child's education and development if we, as teachers, were to "stick to readin, ritin, and rithmatic" when we manage their social and emotional behaviour daily.

There are multitudes of wrong with home schooling. It goes unmonitored, unchecked and the dismal failure of success rates and outcomes exist for it. Children are kept home to avoid bullying, violence and corresponding gun use in some American schools. It is not because parents object to numeracy and literacy not being the exclusive subjects taught.

If you're as passionate about 'OUR' children as you claim, I encourage you to attend university for 6 - 8 years, qualify as a masters graduate teacher, so you can take a stand in a school to teaching numeracy and literacy exclusively. Or take to the streets with signs, crowds and numbers in protest. Additionally, start with your own children and grandchildren to represent your beliefs and not put them through the government or private schooling system but be home schooled.

​At the heart of the school programme the philosophy is a commitment to developing inquiring, knowledgeable and caring young people who help to create a better and more peaceful world through intercultural understanding and respect. It has seen so much success and children are blessed that it's not only in place but I'm proud to be a part of it.