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If they are going to allow non-school activities on school grounds and then due to inadequate supervision a kid gets hurt, the school needs to accept liability.
originally posted by: kaylaluv
a reply to: Blaine91555
The reason it makes sense for the protests to happen on school property during school hours is because the shootings happened on school property during school hours. There’s a message in there. Do you get it?
It’s why Rosa Parks decided to exercise her civil disobedience protest on the bus — because she was discriminated against — on the bus. It’s why protesters walked into the restaurants that didn’t allow blacks and refused to leave — because those restaurants were where discrimination was happening. It’s why King led a march from Selma to the capital of Alabama— because blacks were having trouble registering to vote in Alabama.
But I keep getting told that no restrictions will keep a bad guy from getting a gun. That means restrictions do no good, so what's the point in having them?
So if I don't carry a weapon, I have no right to go into a public place and not get shot.
Conservatives hate peaceful demonstrations. This thread alone is evidence of that.
- If this was not planned or endorsed, how can that response team anticipate the event? Were they expecting the students to just walk out on their own at sometime?
High school students across the United States are planning to walk out of classes all day on Friday as part of the National School Walkout, a protest against what participants see as political inaction in the face of mass shootings and gun violence.
The event, which grew out of a petition on Change.org, comprises more than 2,000 walkouts nationwide, with at least one planned in every U.S. state and the District of Columbia.
With thousands of students expected to participate, here’s what you can expect from Friday’s walkout.
- How can it happen that 250 students decide to do a walkout on their own and the teachers are just watching. Am I dreaming or would it have been their job to restore order when this walkout was not planned and inofficial?
Number of students: 1,187
originally posted by: hopenotfeariswhatweneed
originally posted by: bigfatfurrytexan
originally posted by: kaylaluv
originally posted by: bigfatfurrytexan
originally posted by: kaylaluv
a reply to: Wardaddy454
But I keep getting told that no restrictions will keep a bad guy from getting a gun. That means restrictions do no good, so what's the point in having them?
So if I don't carry a weapon, I have no right to go into a public place and not get shot.
Conservatives hate peaceful demonstrations. This thread alone is evidence of that.
The demonstration was peaceful until well meaning but inept teachers allowed a student to be killed by an innocent victim of their well intentioned idiocy.
And that particular school should be held accountable. That doesn't mean that all the other protests at all the other schools that were better planned and executed shouldn't have happened.
Had no schools participated on the naval gazing exercise the only thing that wpuld change would be that this student wouldnt be dead, and the man who struck him would not be a victim of governmental ineptitude
I'm curious, if the school organized a walk for educational purposes like say to see the traffic, and a child gets run over, where should the blame get focused?
I ask because my child goes for walks around the neighborhood as part of school activities...
originally posted by: bigfatfurrytexan
originally posted by: hopenotfeariswhatweneed
originally posted by: bigfatfurrytexan
originally posted by: kaylaluv
originally posted by: bigfatfurrytexan
originally posted by: kaylaluv
a reply to: Wardaddy454
But I keep getting told that no restrictions will keep a bad guy from getting a gun. That means restrictions do no good, so what's the point in having them?
So if I don't carry a weapon, I have no right to go into a public place and not get shot.
Conservatives hate peaceful demonstrations. This thread alone is evidence of that.
The demonstration was peaceful until well meaning but inept teachers allowed a student to be killed by an innocent victim of their well intentioned idiocy.
And that particular school should be held accountable. That doesn't mean that all the other protests at all the other schools that were better planned and executed shouldn't have happened.
Had no schools participated on the naval gazing exercise the only thing that wpuld change would be that this student wouldnt be dead, and the man who struck him would not be a victim of governmental ineptitude
I'm curious, if the school organized a walk for educational purposes like say to see the traffic, and a child gets run over, where should the blame get focused?
I ask because my child goes for walks around the neighborhood as part of school activities...
The school is liable for the child that they legally compel to be present for indoctrina, er....education.
There was no official endorsement of the walkout at the school, but they were prepared because it had been blasted about on the news for a while before the event. If I'm not mistaken, David Hogg even helped to promote it.
What about the kid who is scared to go to school because they are being bullied all the time?
originally posted by: hopenotfeariswhatweneed
Regardless the school is liable, I find it bizarre that the reason for the walk has been criticized here, if they went for a walk to study traffic, (which incidentally my girlfriends son had a school mate die on a walk that involved counting traffic) would the same outcry and disgust be voiced?