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MA Teachers Union - planning gun action
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Ah.
Well, I can only speak for my town, but our super decided kids who walk out get three days out of school, and so far theMTA has said... nothing.
Because they can’t. Not to worry.
As for whatever’s happening on 24 March? That’s a weekend. So they’ll need to do some SERIOUS mobilizing. At my school, teachers don’t even show up at weekend rallies for their own pay raises. They won’t “mobilize” for this.
Well, I can only speak for my town, but our super decided kids who walk out get three days out of school, and so far theMTA has said... nothing.
Because they can’t. Not to worry.
As for whatever’s happening on 24 March? That’s a weekend. So they’ll need to do some SERIOUS mobilizing. At my school, teachers don’t even show up at weekend rallies for their own pay raises. They won’t “mobilize” for this.
Asaltweapon
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f*** em all!!
Walk out. Take the day. Hope you like attending scool in July.
Winter ain't over yet bitches.
Walk out. Take the day. Hope you like attending scool in July.
Winter ain't over yet bitches.
That's the scary thing, using words like: "support student activists" and "support our students and this movement".
Things they should discuss but won't:
How are they going to support students that are NRA members when they are called murderers by the mobs at these rallies?
Active shooter training is "Run, Hide, Fight". How do you suggest fighting back? Why should a teacher's ability to defend themselves and their students end at the property line to the school?
Instead, it sounds like they're taking an activist position (which is their right), and plan to push that activist position with their students (which is NOT ok).
Not for nothing - the union rep at my family member's school was very PRO 2A.
Things they should discuss but won't:
How are they going to support students that are NRA members when they are called murderers by the mobs at these rallies?
Active shooter training is "Run, Hide, Fight". How do you suggest fighting back? Why should a teacher's ability to defend themselves and their students end at the property line to the school?
Instead, it sounds like they're taking an activist position (which is their right), and plan to push that activist position with their students (which is NOT ok).
Not for nothing - the union rep at my family member's school was very PRO 2A.
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HARRYM
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Once we accepted Public Employees to fail in teaching Math, English and Science, and to allow them to focus on brainwashing the youth of America with the Progressive Indoctrination, we surrendered to exactly what the Communists TOLD us that this is what exactly they intended to do back in the 1960's.
GM-GUY
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My kids and I have matching shirts for that day
https://www.amazon.com/Coyote-Helmet-MOLON-LABE-T-shirt/dp/B00801Q172
As soon as they switch from memorial to lobbying and calling for the end of the NRA and 2A - you lost my sympathy, and if you aren’t following the rules (amendnent process) you have my contempt.
https://www.amazon.com/Coyote-Helmet-MOLON-LABE-T-shirt/dp/B00801Q172
As soon as they switch from memorial to lobbying and calling for the end of the NRA and 2A - you lost my sympathy, and if you aren’t following the rules (amendnent process) you have my contempt.
VetteGirlMA
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It so sad when we have teachers that can't even prep students for a college education but we can sure as hell prep them to be entitled agitators.
MachineHead
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It’s like facing two mirrors at each other and dividing by zero...you enter another dimension.
Mark from MA
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I think that's what's happening at my kids school...17 minute walk out. Told him he could take the day off if he wanted. He just said he will take a 20 minute nap in his seat....most of his friends will be doing the same thing as they are all on the same page with this bullshit.
I haven't called yet, but I'll be calling and asking the scumbag super why they are allowing political activism on public school grounds, and wasting my tax money.
GM-GUY
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That's what my kids district is talking about 17 minutes and 'non-political'. So when the news covers it and the central planners talk about it, it won't be political and only shown as a memorial (like the Wellstone memorial 
).
My kids wear sweatshirts most days - if they start lobbing for gun control, they plan on pulling off the sweatshirts and starting a counter rally.
I didn't see anything in the handbook that the shirts would violate and didn't hear anything at the orientation.
).My kids wear sweatshirts most days - if they start lobbing for gun control, they plan on pulling off the sweatshirts and starting a counter rally.
I didn't see anything in the handbook that the shirts would violate and didn't hear anything at the orientation.
tuna
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Even worse than not preparing them for college, but to insist that college is the ONLY option they have when the graduate. The thought of kids ignoring the mantra of "without college you'll never get a good job" and learning a trade to become productive people with a real job and no substantial debt sends them into the hysterics. My daughter is only 9, and corrects her teacher every time he brings up college, her reply waffles between mechanic and basic training - both of which I support.
Back on subject, why do I keep hearing March 24th? I thought the big push was the 14th? So far nothing is planned at my school, but if it is, my kids won't be attending that day - we'll be at the rifle range.
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So teachers are organizing (through their union) to push a political agenda through the children they're charged with educating? The same teachers that The State essentially forces us to hand our children over to for said education?
Shame on anyone who supports public employee unions. Shame on public teachers who aren't kicking and screaming against this shit. Shame on the media for not doing its job, and for enabling the use of children as political tools. Shame on the parents who aren't flipping-tables-over mad at the local PTA meetings. Shame on those of us who don't have kids in public schools for not mobilizing to put an end to it.
This is truly the kind of shit that deserves an angry, very personal approach directed at anyone supporting or enabling it.
Shame on anyone who supports public employee unions. Shame on public teachers who aren't kicking and screaming against this shit. Shame on the media for not doing its job, and for enabling the use of children as political tools. Shame on the parents who aren't flipping-tables-over mad at the local PTA meetings. Shame on those of us who don't have kids in public schools for not mobilizing to put an end to it.
This is truly the kind of shit that deserves an angry, very personal approach directed at anyone supporting or enabling it.
amm5061
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I have no problem with giving students a pass for a walkout for ANY political cause. However that isn't what is happening. Teachers are promoting something and helping students to organize -- this destroys neutrality, discourages debate, implicitly makes students who disagree "wrong."
Mike
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Jason Flare
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Cool. Can the students form a Political Cause of the Day Club?
Freddy B
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They are saying "it's only 17 minutes." There's over 2,000 students in our multi-building high school campus. It will take a lot longer than 17 minutes for everyone to vacate, assemble, rally, and then get back to their classes. At best, a full period will be missed. And perhaps part of a second.
I think if a student can articulate the importance, they should have at it. Whether that is joining a large rally, counter-protesting a large rally, giving testimony at the statehouse, etc.
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Dennis in MA
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Can I move to your town????
One could only hope. That would be classic.
LOL. If we find multiple per day, we could never go back to school again!
"It's only weed."
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. . . . What are "Things that stupid teachers have said in their lifetime," Alex.
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No, they should be in school learning, which is what the parents dropped them off at the school for. It's not the school's place to foster activism, or make judgment calls as to which protests are acceptable, or to allow the students to decide which days they will and won't be staying in class.
Seriously, think about what you're advocating. You want minor students to be able to decide whether or not they get up and walk out of class without repercussions in the name of supposed political activism. That sounds like a good idea to you?
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