Top photo "students at Kennedy Catholic High School have left their classrooms and are staging a sit-in in their hallways to protest the forced resignation of two LGBT teachers."
Graph below based on data from the CDC: "Youth behavior trends in the United States, 9th grade, 14-15 years old" -
all the fun stuff is going down and the dumb stuff is going up?
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No flames, just a suggestion that your conclusions are, to my mind, false. Working backwards -- standing up for the rights of LGBTQ teachers (who have hurt no one by their actions or their existence) is admirable. It does not follow that these students should similarly stand up for the "rights" of white supremacists who visit their campus in order to spread lies, hatred, and tacitly encourage violence against people because of skin color, religious beliefs, country of origin, etc. There is no parallel here.
ReplyDeleteThe fact that parents didn't remove kids from school or contracts are not changed immediately does NOT make their actions an empty protest. MOST protests throughout history had no immediate impact. That doesn't make them empty.
And your comments about contracts being enforced is irrelevant. The teachers were not protesting -- the students who love and respect them were. Are you saying students had no right to protest a contract they see as being morally wrong and even against the interest of the students themselves is pointless because, hey, it's legal? I imagine people said the same thing about people protesting slavery. Hey, it's legal.