Students walk out in protest of teacher suspension, page 1

Originally posted by SportyMB
These are high school students. They have NO RIGHT to leave school in protest. They do have the right to file a complaint, tell thier parents, talk to the teacher and just not pay attention to the man and get an easy "A" (that's what I would have done )

The teacher was wrong and should be punished, should've kept his political views outside of geography, imo. But the kids still do not the right to walk out.

EDIT: mistake, thanks Boat

Anyways, should've kept his mouth shut.

[edit on 2/3/2006 by SportyMB]

I'm not sure if the teacher was wrong or not, since I don't know the exact situation except what the media is spouting off. I hardly trust the media. There had to be a good reason for that many highschool students to walk out in protest. Some of them probablly just wanted some free time, but do you know how hard it is to get a large group of students to do something like that in the first place, since they are usually divided in their clicks and social classes spurning all others out side of their group? Something else has to have been going on here for students to ban together for a teacher. Heck most students hate or have an indefference towards their teacher.

Why shouldnl't the students have the right to walk out in protest? They are just execrising their God given freedoms, and the freedoms given by the original founders of the constitution. Teachers have the right to strike, why don't the students?

This nonsense that they can file a complaint or tell their parents is a bunch of BS. Highschool students are treated like grade school students when it comes to things like this by the teachers and administrators. The students really don't know what is good for them, and they don't know what they are saying. Yet some of them are old enough or almost old enough to go die for our country.

What are the parents going to do? Their hands are practically tied behind their back. PTA meetings? Yea right, the parents are just paid lip service if that. Help the parent who has a real problem with the teacher. It is like going to war with Rambo, except you arn't Rambo and your about to get your arse wiped all over the place and thrown out of the building.

This might be the only alternative the students had to getting their voice heard. As I said I believe there is much more going on here than a teacher voicing his opnions in the class room.

Voicing his opnions on politics and actually getting students to think for a change is better than telling stories about how to cheat the local department store. I had a teacher like that, but he was never kicked out. What if he was using politics as a way to tie in countries with their governments. The students are old enough for those types of disscussions. I would think it would make georghpy much more interesting and help the kids remember what country is which.

The school district may actually what to kick him out because he is actually getting the kids to think instead of becoming drone like machines that are suppose to do what they are told without question.

Yes the kids are being brainwashed and dumbdowned by the system whether the teacher and/or administrators realize what is happening. All they know is that they have rules and regs to maintain, a set way the teachers are suppose to teach, and how kids are suppose to act and learn. Anything that goes against that system is a threat. This teacher may have been going against the system and has been nailed for it.

I know of another teacher who is being nailed for actually teaching instead of teaching the dumbed down touchy/feely version of history that hardly had anything to do with history he was told to teach.