On AAR: Students walk out of class re teacher laid off for Bush rant

[kitkat65]

Did anyone else hear this? They were protesting. Hearing it made me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. Our youth aren't fooled and they give a damn!

[pstans]

1. I saw it on cable news

CNN or MSNBC

[MadMaddie]

4. High school students that are becoming aware...

I think that's great....

Now if we could get the college campuses to react.....

[Kansas Wyatt]

8. CNN reported it, but

Said that the protest was comprised of both sides of the issue.

Anyone have any clarification on what the real facts are?

[Missy M]

2. It does my heart good to hear this. Perhaps there is still hope...

for the future of this country.

[CGrantt57]

3. Don't get your hopes up...

they probably just wanted to get out of class for awhile.

Most of today's kids are uninformed and lazy.

I've been teaching for 20 years...don't get me started.

:eyes:

[still_one]

6. I am not that cynical

and a teacher should not be either

[Occulus]

9. Not QUITE entirely true...

Once, when I was in high school, we had a cold snap right at the beginning of fall. It was close to forty degrees in the school's halls, and everyone was wearing coats.

Apparently, the heating system was tied up into that of two other schools that were all geographically basically on the same campus. The heating was piped over via hot water... AFTER going through the other two schools first. We didn't know that when our protest started; most of the high school student body walked out of class to do an impromptu sit-in in front of the office.

As I understand it, not many years after, the high school got its own heating system.

The only day I can recall students just not showing up for school en masse is the traditional "senior skip day", when all the seniors take the day off and go do something as a group.

And finally, why is it that I see more adults taking days off work than I ever did students taking days off school?

[librechik]

5. Yeah, at Overland High School in Aurora, a suburb of Denver

HUNDREDS OF ANGRY STUDENTS walked out in support of their teacher's right to call Bush incompetent. KMGH News guy said "a handful" showed up in support of the student who complained.

Sometimed I think America is going to be ok.

( I work near Aurora--I'm proud of those kids.)

[Booster]

7. I love young people. I also hope everyone of their parents are

supporting the walkout.