California Schools
Paid for Politically Motivated Anti-Gun Walkouts
Gun
control advocates and enemies of the 2nd Amendment notched their belts last
week with the California school walkout protests calling for stricter gun
controls. But now, the districts that encouraged students to leave the
classroom to promote their demonstrably uninformed political views are coming
under fire for the possible legal implications of their actions.
One week
following the walkouts on March the 14th, school officials are being inundated
with complaints from parents who are unhappy to see their children used as
political tools in a push for legislation they do not necessarily support. The
parents are calling foul, saying that students were baited with “get out of
class free” cards.
“These
kids are being told, ‘hold this sign and stand in front of these cameras,
and you can get out of history class,'” one parent complained to reporters.
In
addition to the apparent conflict of interest involved in the walkouts, there
have also been many reports of criminal mischief being committed by these same
students. To make matters worse, many school districts along the west coast
have announced that they plan to do the same thing next month.
The
teachers and school administrators who are planning and promoting these
walkouts do not seem to see the conflict of interest problems involved. They have
the responsibility of providing scholastic instruction to the children of the
parents who trust them to do so. This is especially true of public schools.
Public
schools are essentially government agencies. That means, we have a government
agency that is advocating for alterations to the fundamental laws of our
country while using pre-voting age citizens as emotional leverage.
Suppose
the IRS did something similar. Imagine that the children of certain low-level
IRS employees had contracted illnesses related to the relatively low incomes of
their parents. Then, suppose the IRS began walking these students out on
marches calling for higher taxes which would be used to pay their employees
more.
This is
essentially what these California school districts are doing. They are
abandoning their mission of educating students for the purpose of using
resources paid for by taxpayers to influence the laws that affect the lives of
those same taxpayers.
If any
other government agency did the same thing, it would be a national scandal.
The
Chairman of the Chicago Republican Party, Chris Cleveland, says he is concerned
that these protests will encourage left-wing advocates to use other public
resources to push their agendas.
There is a
strong general feeling that the schools belong to the communities that contain
them. The truth is they belong to the taxpayer, and they have a duty to impart
an unbiased education. This is a far and away different thing to using the
children themselves as political pawns.
It’s
instructive to consider the experience of some conservative-leaning students.
There have been a number of reports concerning students who wished to support
the 2nd Amendment during these same marches.
Students
supporting the right of Americans to possess the necessary tools of
self-defense in the modern age have been escorted away from the protest areas.
They have had detentions applied to them for skipping class, where the
anti-gun-rights student sign-holders have not been punished equally.
The
message to students in these cases is clear; ‘March with the signs we make for
you, or stay in class.’
Mr.
Cleveland said, “If they get away with this, they’ll be free to engage in any
kind of political activity in the schools that they wish.”
Cleveland’s
group is mounting a lawsuit to prevent left-wing advocates and school districts
from hijacking the school system for use as an emotion-based political weapon.
They argue that these schools districts have violated state law as well as
their own policies by organizing these political demonstrations, and for doing
so at the expense of the taxpayer.
The
district that Mr. Cleveland’s legal action group is targeting, has yet to
release any public statements on the issue, and any direct response is yet
pending.
At
present, the schools seem determined to punish students who don’t conform to
their political views, to which Cleveland responds, “There will always be a few
kids who don’t behave,” said Mr. Cleveland. “I’m a lot more concerned about the
behavior of the adults.”~ Conservative Zone
Comments
Public
schools in California are Political Indoctrination Camps.
Norb
Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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