California May Be Blue But I’m Seeing Red: LAUSD Is Preventing Its Kids From Walking In Solidarity With Florida On March 14
12 Monday Mar 2018
Written by redqueeninla in Education
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Florida, Gun Control, Gun legislation, LAUSD, March 14 2018, National School Walkout, NRA, Stoneman Douglas HS
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I am ashamed of My LAUSD.
I just heard on KPCC that LAUSD is “asking its students not to walk out on Wednesday”.
Ashamed and disgusted.
LAUSD is further asking its parents to encourage its kids not to walk out, not to honor their “colleagues” who died and call attention to their own jeopardy as sitting ducks in a fishbowl of an enclosed institution.
Yes, LAUSD is mandated to keep our children safe. But yes, their capacity to do so is limited by the milieu in which we all operate.
Guns are everywhere, “hormones” are especially prevalent in High Schools and it is everyone’s right and responsibility to agitate for basal, housekeeping rules-of-society to keep their own safe.
I am so proud of those Floridian kids with the power and seeming capacity to lead where their parents have failed. I want to support them. I want to support any of our kids who want to support them. I would like to see the school doors of every school in the nation open up to let a flood of our youth march until their elders heed them, heed them in doing what needs to be done to take steps toward some safety.
OK, it won’t keep them entirely “Safe”; that’s not the point. Important incremental change is, and acknowledging the imbalance of respect is. Respecting the legal right of property over one’s legal right of well-being is a strange choice. It is everyone’s prerogative to weigh in on, and the public has done so in direct opposition with our elected officials.
If our Kids want to turn out with their colleagues all across the nation, it is my opinion that our kids’ administrators should enable this important stance, not discourage it.
** Please forward this far and wide. I would be happy to sign my kid out
if that would help LAUSD legally…. is there room for negotiation? **
8 Comments
March 28, 2018 at 2:30 pm
I agree with you 100%. Our children are stepping up to put their Constitutional rights into action and we need to support them. As a matter of fact, we should be overjoyed that they recognize the need and have the backbone to act!
March 12, 2018 at 2:16 pm
The long view of keeping kids safe is to encourage where they exist and develop where they are lacking their most adult behaviors. Safety doesn’t mean free from the wrongs of the world in which they find themselves. Wrongs confront all of us throughout our lives. Adults have to stop hiding their own cowardice behind the youths they are charged to guide into adulthood. Act to educate, not to infantilize students!
March 12, 2018 at 10:17 am
If it’s about losing ADA, teachers should be able to talk with the kids who will choose to protest no matter what and suggest they check in then walk out with supervision. Teachers are being told their jobs will be on the line, but their job is to provide supervision as well. Choose a teacher to supervise those who wish to protest and designate classrooms where teachers will stay behind to supervise those who do not walk.
It’s ironic that the “school choice”-heavy school board makes a statement that crushes choice for both teachers and students. Spineless and fearful. That’s not the message we want to send to our kids.
March 12, 2018 at 9:59 am
Thanks for offering to sign me out so I don’t get suspended, Mom. It’d be much appreciated xx
March 12, 2018 at 11:49 am
np dear.
March 12, 2018 at 9:51 am
Has the LAUSD Board made any public statement on this? Either in support of students or non-support of students?
I’m sending an email to them today.
March 12, 2018 at 11:49 am
Thanks, Roberta — would you please post your letter here as well? Thank you!
March 12, 2018 at 8:58 am
California may be blue but I’m seeing RED. LAUSD should not be preventing kids from walking in solidarity with Florida on March 14th.