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ChapotraphouseOh my god IT ACTUALLY HAPPENED LIKE ALL OF THEM LEFT! turns out they adjusted their plan between yesterday and today to synchronize with the local high-school, I am SHOCKED
Ive never ever EVER seen coordination like this before from them. It was almost complete unity basically everyone walked out and they did it all at the same time all coordinated only by themselves I am feeling ecstatic right now holy fuck
I am do proud of them right now holy fuck I'm CRYING
Even the ones who I thought would just be doing this to get out of school had signs and stuff and marched off with everyone else instead of just bailing! I'm so proud of them...
~~I thought I had already given up but hearing the kids talk about this gave me the slightest bit of hope I guess, cause at the appointed time has come and gone and nothing happened I just feel absolutely fucking gutted~~
~~There is no hope, not even the bullshit liberal nonviolent protest kind, this country is a desolation~~
Gen Alpha will save us from the zoomers
Local HS kids walked out yesterday here too. Chuds on the town subreddit foaming at the mouth, talking about running them over.
harming children is the only thing they’re physically capable of
And sometimes, not even that!
talking about running them over.
QAnon and shit like that was never about "saving the children", look at how easily these fucks will kill for slight inconvenience, and children no less! It was all about punishing the opposition party by leveraging a universal taboo of child abuse.
reminder to never lose hope in the youth
one day they will line us up against the wall, it's up to us to make sure it's for the right reasons (that they believe we are revisionist libs)
The kids at the school I work at a couple days a week might walk out tomorrow, hope they do.
I’ll always have hope in the youth. Even if they do dumb shit. Not all of them will be fuckups. They got time to grow and learn.
But one of the things I think the kids of today have learned naturally is that this world capitalism has built hasn’t got a future in it for them. Or they’re starting to realize it.
a bunch of the high schools near where i live also did similar walkouts, i was talking with my lib colleague about it and he just said kids will use any excuse to skip class
kids will use any excuse to skip class
I'm sure that a non-zero number of students don't care and just joined a bandwagon that let them skip class. I bet some kids who support ICE took part in the walkout too.
Regardless, learning that they can take part in direct action is a more valuable lesson than whatever they were going to learn in English class that day.
Full, uncritical support to my high school aged comrades who blew off half the day yesterday to March. No matter if they did it because they wanted to protest the injustices of this nation, or they did it so they could smoke some reefer and get Dairy Queen, I salute them.
What a fucking loser lol
I have been absolutely ranting to my coworkers how proud I am of these kids for working together to coordinate an action together, talking about how cool it is to see them take something seriously and follow through on it, even if that thing was leaving school how are adults not excited to see the kids engaged and doing things?!
What a fucking loser lol
I probably would have called him a loser to his face. I don't know that I would have been able to stop myself. "Don't be such a looser Jim, the world sucks, let the kids have some agency".
But it wouldn’t even be an insult, it’d be constructive criticism. That’s telltale loser thinking, the inability to imagine other people having passions or interests and just projecting about their own laziness in skipping class to go home and jerk all day.
Young people can organize decent resistance when push comes to shove. Remember all the partisan stories that go "men, women, and children fought back." Admittedly, 12 is young, most of those stories were about older teenagers, but it shows that something is very wrong and everyone can tell, when even kids manage to pull off organised resistance action.
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Kids know right from wrong. You either have it or you don’t, no amount of theory will give you clarity if you don’t have a basic sense of morality and empathy.
There's a reason they say little kids can be excellent judges of character.
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Hell yeah Comrade Educator!
Not that any of this will directly accomplish anything, but goddamn the level of organization I witnessed today, shit, I don't think they're going to be forming a vanguard party and leading the revolution or anything, but maybe there will at least be an effective internal resistance against the burgerreich once we go full 1940 nazi Germany
I figured there was no way they'd be able to manage it, but this gives me hope that they can learn and develop in time to survive
It builds solidarity, it builds class consciousness! That's pretty huge for middle school aged kids. I mean, like someone else in the thread said, I've never heard of kids in that age group doing a walk out like that, let alone one linked together with the upper grades. Super cool shit. Administration better watch out, if they figure out they can do this about stuff they don't like in their schools, things might get spicy.
A friend of mine who was a substitute teacher was like "yeah I try and give them the knowledge that they can have an impact on this stuff; usually I just pull up the school board website and let them know 'these are the people to email right here, most of this stuff is their call'"
"The people making your life miserable have names and email addresses"
Yeah, the size and coordination of the walkouts have been wild. Something like a dozen high schools walked out near me all at once, with basically every student leaving and all marching downtown to meet up together. Kids I'm related to, kids that have had internships, really all the teens I know, have all walked out over ICE in the past few weeks.
My partner works at a library, and some kids at a high school did a walkout protest. They came to the library and sent two kids in to politely ask if the group could use the bathroom there. Before the kids could all filter in and finish they got a call from the headquarters branch that "protests aren't allowed on library property". No one passed this message along to the kids
Edit: some cops were following the kids around, they hadn't messed with them at the time my partner talked to them (they asked) but I still wonder what they were up to.
Edit-edit: America Delenda Est
That's awesome. I've hardly ever heard of kids that young doing organized protest at that scale.
There were those massive climate walkouts back in 2019, a lot of Middle Schoolers participated just like the High Schoolers
That was after my time
Us millenials who grew up under Bush remember how dark things were before
"Why isn't there a flag on your backpack? What are you, gay?" - I assume this was what it was like + 0 tolerance policy + see-through backpacks
When I was in high school we did it to protest the rule that underclassmen couldn't leave campus during the lunch hour, because there was a taco truck that would park across the street and freshman and sophomores would get detention for going.
direct action gets the goods (yummy tacos)
I dream of a world where some RedWhiteandBlue Guard born after Obama guillotines me as a conservative
My retirement plan is being executed after the Water Wars for being insufficiently radical
What a rollercoaster
The school walkouts are legitimately the best thing I have seen. Everyone is doing it, and I heard from one young comrade who organized his HS walkout, who said it was basically pretty easy and the other students were immediately on board.
Dayum. They do what they can.
I've been seeing a lot of news about students walking out. Kids have been walking out in my state too. I haven't heard of anything like that happening in the district I work in (yet), but we're also part of a college town, so who knows what could get organize.
Dont give up! A whole bunch of schools in my state have done it. It just needs a few weeks of organization to make sure as many students walk out as possible so no consequences come to individuals.
Folks, the kids are alright!
Was there any actual organization about this?
Because talk is just that, talk
There was far more and better organizing than I thought apparently, because they changed the plan and spread the word in just 8 hours and everyone knew what was going on in time to follow through together, it was amazing!
I thought it fell apart because I didn't hear their new plan before they executed it
Kids out here already learning good opsec
Hell yeah!
