This is the question Gwen needs to answer.Why is political activism against a constitutionally protected right going on in a tax payer funded public school?
Why is political activism against a constitutionally protected right going on in a tax payer funded public school?
Because political activism is also a constitutionally-protected right. That said, because it's a public school, I think they should give equal air time for counterarguments.
This all day longI don't think they should give time to EITHER side. Politics has no place in K-12 schools.
I don't think they should give time to EITHER side. Politics has no place in K-12 schools.
Sure it does. It absolutely does. As long as it's with counterarguments, it helps with critical thinking. Do you also advocate taking out history? Civics? Field trips to the legislature?
We are always posting about indoctrination in schools, and a healthy debate presenting all sides helps protect it. One side, forget it.
I don't equate "civics" with "politics".
If ALL of the board members are okay with this I'd take names and make it public before the next elections....
Sure it does. It absolutely does. As long as it's with counterarguments, it helps with critical thinking. Do you also advocate taking out history? Civics? Field trips to the legislature?
We are always posting about indoctrination in schools, and a healthy debate presenting all sides helps protect it. One side, forget it.
Send them over here to Afghanistan with me. I'm sure they'll be a hit out in the hinterland.
CD
Like it or lump it, they are inseparable. If we teach the kids the theoreticals about how society is supposed to work, they should see how it really works. Expose them to the good, the bad, and the ugly, see all sides of the issue. Get them asking you questions and be a good parent and why what's right is right, and what's wrong is wrong.
At the end of the day, though, I shrug it off. I homeschool. But as a taxpayer, if they allow dissenting arguments, I am OK with it. A single point of view is no bueno.
Thomas Sowell didna great article on this theory. That somehow having kids discuss these lofty issues helps them with critical thinking. Sowell's view, and I agree after watching this in my daughter's school, is that it is hog wash. First, the kids do not have knowledge or facts in their mushy little brains when they have these discussions. They have now intellectual foundation to support their arguments. So the teacher and his/her views typically drive the argument. Secondly, since they don't have enough wisdom or experience to discuss these things the debates turn into arguments about how they feel. And emotion rules the day instead of facts or logic.
Aren't they supposed to be in school learning?!?
Not read all the comments, so I might be echoing someone else, and might ruffle some feathers for this, but that's nothing new...
Why, just because youre in the general vicinity, is everyone now a 'survivor' of the shooting?
I mean, the Hogg kid - apparently in a different building or wing from the gunman, never got close to him? If bullets never even got close to you then I wouldnt consider yourself a 'survivor.'
Survivors are war vets. Holocaust vets. Those whose lives were in direct danger from an enemy.
These kids are just milking this nonsense.
And for them to be traveling around giving speeches?
F THAT NOISE.
GO TO SCHOOL!
LEARN!
We/NO ONE needs your opinion on gun control because of that. There were over a dozen football games at my high school this past year, I was witness to some - when do I get to go around, getting paid, to talk to colleges and NFL about football? Oh, I dont because I dont know squat about it? Dang. I was hoping for a quick buck.
These kids dont know squat about what they are talking about.
I truly do feel for them for losing friends in this tragic event, Im not that heartless, but this is out of control.
If they were at my school I would NOT attend this crap.
Damn this pisses me off so much. Apologies yall.
Not read all the comments, so I might be echoing someone else, and might ruffle some feathers for this, but that's nothing new...
Why, just because youre in the general vicinity, is everyone now a 'survivor' of the shooting?
I mean, the Hogg kid - apparently in a different building or wing from the gunman, never got close to him? If bullets never even got close to you then I wouldnt consider yourself a 'survivor.'
I call bullshit on her waiting for confirmation- she waited until the last minute so she could say she informed everyone. I'd be very careful that they didn't force all the students to attend-because no-one objected.So I got this email last night. I sent an email to the principal this morning but she has not responded. I asked my 12 year old daughter if she was attending and she said no. She has heard enough about it already.
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