"National Walk-Out Day"

[BmorePat87]

(03-15-2018, 12:27 PM)Dill Wrote: 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.

I'm guilty. As an American Government teacher, I have influenced hundreds of children over the past 7 years by teaching them ways in which they're legally allowed to protest, both in and out of school, and ways administration can and cannot punishment for doing that. 

I have empowered them to discover their personal political leanings and to express themselves on a multitude of issues visually, verbally, and written. 

So when our 600 or so students walked out, hundreds of them were made aware of their political rights and given an oppurtunity to voice themselves in the past as part of my curriculum. 


I am that awful activist teacher manipulating children into knowing what their rights as Americans are. God damn common core.