Should DODEA School Kids Be Allowed to Walkout of Class to Hold Protests?
In my opinion if kids leave school without permission they should be given detention or some other form of punishment. If the DODEA schools allow these kids to protest without punishment than what is too stop students from leaving class to protest other hot button topics?:
Parents and students say that administrators initiated an unannounced lockdown drill to stop a planned walkout at Netzaberg Middle School on Thursday, a claim school officials dispute. The incident has raised concerns in the U.S. military community near Grafenwoehr and Vilseck that the school deliberately kept students from speaking out against the removal of material deemed to support diversity, equity and inclusion, as well as the shuttering or reorganization of groups with gender, racial or cultural affiliations. (…….)
Parents and students say that administrators initiated an unannounced lockdown drill to stop a planned walkout at Netzaberg Middle School on Thursday, a claim school officials dispute. The incident has raised concerns in the U.S. military community near Grafenwoehr and Vilseck that the school deliberately kept students from speaking out against the removal of material deemed to support diversity, equity and inclusion, as well as the shuttering or reorganization of groups with gender, racial or cultural affiliations.
You can read more at the link, but if you want to be an activist go do it outside of school hours. However, I am willing to bet it is probably the parents pushing these kids to go and protest during school.
1968-1971, Panama Canal Zone at the height of hippiness, I still would not be able to sit down if I participated in something like that. DODs teachers who participated would have probably found themselves handed over to Omar Torrijos’ boys in the Guardia National.
It looks like some DODEA schools share the same opinion I have on walking out of school to protest:
https://www.stripes.com/theaters/asia_pacific/2025-04-15/dodea-detentions-school-walkout-dei-17477295.html
“I am willing to bet it is probably the parents pushing these kids to go and protest during school.”
Or the teachers. I doubt any significant number of middle schooler’s give a damn about DEI or any other political or social issue. But an opportunity to ditch school? I’m sure they can get behind that.
Nope, if they try then Early Return of Dependents.
If you read closely, some students did their protest at lunchtime.
Peaceful protest is an American tradition.
School lunchtime being my own goddam time is also an American tradition.
With this in mind, I am going to tentatively support students showing concern over whatever emotional teenybopper insanity they currently hold so dear to their hearts that will embarrass them as they become successful and don’t want to share their success with self-marginalized communities with their hands out.
Further, it allows the surveillance state to feed good data to the Master AI on which revolutionaries need to be purged after the revolution.
Walking out of class is not a virtue signal. It is dumbàss signal that you are just as self-destructive as the losers you are supporting with avoiding studies instead of throwing firebombs at cops like a proper protest.
Making yourself ~1/180th more ignorant to support the ignorant is solidarity…
…but it helps nobody.