Methinks these schools may rue the day they encouraged this event.
What kind of letters will these administrators be sending to their teachers next January, for example, if millions of students across the nation stage a National School Walkout for the murdered unborn, or a National School Walkout for gun rights?
“It’s a teachable moment,” say the wise and judicious administrators. “We want to support what they want to do. It’s not ours to plan, it’s not ours to encourage, it‘s not ours to discourage.”
A teachable moment? Well, then. Let the teaching begin…with them. Because now that the floodgates have been opened (and they have), the real lesson will come when these administrators are confronted with a flurry of causes that students insist on demonstrating for during school hours, causes that may (or may not) represent these administrators’ views.
I taught today (community college) but not until late afternoon. Part of me was glad I didn’t have to even deal with this (we got our letters). The other part of me, the part that has me pacing the floors in anger at how this country is so manipulated by the far left, wishes I had taught at 10 a.m. Because I would have lectured to an empty room for 13 minutes and tested for 4. Fine, miss my class for your cause (good cause, bad cause, whatever), but I won’t be held hostage by your cause. The train leaves the station at 10, class carries on, be here or don’t be here.
But I’m tired of being manipulated.
