DODEA Administrators Help Organize High School Diversity Protest on Okinawa
Should schools being helping students to organize protests especially during school time?:
More than 60 high school students staged a walkout here Friday to protest Pentagon policies affecting diversity initiatives, the third such demonstration at a Defense Department school since Feb. 11.
The Kadena High School students — children of airmen and DOD employees — walked out at 10 a.m. for a 15-minute protest in front of the school, principal James Bleeker wrote in a letter emailed to parents that afternoon. Stars and Stripes counted at least 80 students in photos taken from about 250 feet away. Sophomore Elliot Field organized the walkout with support from the DODEA Student Advocacy Core Team, which also backed a Feb. 21 protest at Nile C. Kinnick High School on Yokosuka Naval Base, she said by email Wednesday. She took inspiration from that protest, where about 150 students walked out.
“It’s kind of frightening because I’ve never done anything like this before,” she told Stars and Stripes outside the school before the walkout. “I’ve always sort of been like, if something needs to get done, why not just do it? Something needed to happen.” Field said she coordinated the protest with Bleeker. Miranda Ferguson, a spokeswoman for Department of Defense Education Activity-Pacific, confirmed in an email Friday that the demonstration was organized with school administrators.
You can read more at the link, but would these same DODEA administrators allow students to organize a MAGA protest, an anti-abortion protest, a border security protest, etc.? Where is line for organized protests during school hours?
Guarantee Pete’s aware and some administrators are soon to be made redundant.
DEI, right? All they did was to stick up for those who are vulnerable. Good on those kids. The amount of hatred you right-wing false Christian nationalists. Did Jesus teach you to hate like this?
Donald Trump’s X tweet:
All federal funding will stop for colleges or schools that allow “illegal” protests. Any protestors will be arrested, imprisoned or permanently expelled from schools. Also, masks are now illegal.
There’s your Dear Leader dictator. Those kids would face arrest if they were in the US.
Do you know how an “illegal” protest was defined?
…protests that include threats, violence, arson, and vandalism.
The First Amendment of the United States Constitution protects the right of the people to peacefully assemble. That is a legal protest.
It does not protect people who take over buildings, hold others in captivity, damage property, hurt others, or threaten violence. That is an “illegal” protest.
With that new information, do you now support Trump’s thought on the matter or would you like to defend the lowest levels of criminal behavior?
Maybe he’s just trying to be more like Korea.
Article 17 of the Immigration Control Act of South Korea, foreign nationals are prohibited from engaging in “political activities” unless explicitly permitted by law. This restriction is interpreted to include participating in public demonstrations, rallies, or protests that involve political expression or activism.
Fire the DODEA employees and early return of dependents for all that participated.
Apparently commie china hasn’t heard about article 17, lots of commie chinese protesting in support of DPK
lots of commie chinese protesting in support of DPK
Wrong @Flyingsword.
The Chinese are providing funding to extreme right wing groups so that they can keep protesting.
No doubt some of that money ends up in the PPP.