Hi All! Before this devolves into yet another errant thread about the non-Mpls issue of the War in Iraq, let me try to make my point in a different, perhaps less glib way. Heck, I'm not gonna sleep anyway as long as new developments keep happenning....
My Point: Is it the policy of Mpls Public Schools to allow "100-200" elementary school kids to get up at the same time from many classrooms, pick up the signs they brought in in the morning (or created in class?) and march out? >From my perspective, it is hard to believe that the urchins organized this with their collective little heads filled with mush. By any standard, it is not acceptable, and if their parents were involved, they should be ashamed, and if paid employees of the Mpls school district aided and abetted, they should be fired. I have three kids who went/are going thru a Roseville District elementary school. I cannot in my wildest imagination picture 100, let alone 10 kids getting up at a set time, getting protest signs out of their lockers and marching outside. If by some impossible chance they could evade their teachers, the principal would have stood in front of the door. Those involved would at least have to take a scolding letter back to their parents. For safety's sake, for godsake, if for nothing else, Roseville elementary kids can't even leave school for a doctor appointment or a family emergency without a teacher escorting the kid to the office and their parents signing them out -- after showing id, even if the secretary knows them well. Point again. NOT ABOUT WAR PROTESTING, OR PATRIOTIC DISPLAYS, or even BAD LUNCHROOM FOOD. This is about Mpls Public Schools in general, and Field in particular. Why would someone send their kid to a school system with such disregard for it's duty to provide learning in a safe environment. Middle School? Would't get past the door. Closed campus.. High School? Hard to control these kids, detention or suspension. College and other Adult Kids? Do your thing, just don't wreck property or endanger lives by, say, disrupting rush hour. Hope this saves bandwidth and listmaster headaches by focusing the discussion on the appropriateness of Mpls Schools allowing grade schoolers to leave class and play in traffic. Cheers! PK TEMPORARY REMINDER: 1. Send all posts in plain-text format. 2. Cut as much of the post you're responding to as possible. ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
