"National Walk-Out Day"

[Dill]

(03-15-2018, 12:34 AM)bfine32 Wrote: I do not know whether you are right or not, but if any adult manipulated a child to do their bidding then I have a special place of loathe for them. 

I have read comments all day (not here, on objective forums) about the pros and cons on this movement. Whatever happened, it was influenced by an adult. 

I agree. I am guessing that there are teachers at these schools who are teaching students how our government works and what their rights are, and the responsibilities of elected officials.  That is certainly "influence" and may give students ideas about exercising political power if they start wondering why their legislators are so responsive to the gun lobby. If schools would remove education for citizenship from their curricula and focus on job training, there would be so much less resistance to the status quo.

There is also some possibility that students Parkland were motivated by the trauma of fleeing a shooter and losing some of their friends.  So the shooter is an "influence" as well, though if adults had not been filling students' heads with ideas of democracy and political accountability I'm pretty sure we would not see all this marching and protesting. It is a nation wide problem, not just at Parkland.