Two questions for those who argue student walkouts in Minneapolis are a waste of taxpayer dollars:
1. Will you be raising similar objections in Eden Prairie, where 40 students at Central Middle School staged a walkout on Wednesday? http://www.startribune.com/stories/462/3768356.html 2. Would you be complaining if those students had walked out to join the Taxpayers League on Wednesday when they held their annual protest at the State Capitol or would that have been considered cool? In other words, are you really riled up because some kids are missing class or because of what the kids are protesting about? Lastly, Craig mentioned a recent series in the Doonesbury comic strip about kids from a high school in Oregon being passed over when they applied for college. What he left out was the part of the storyline where that school system had closed five weeks earlier than usual because of budget cuts forced by tax reductions for the rich, so they were presumed to have received inferior educations. Maybe that's the lesson we should take away from Garry Trudeau. Mark Snyder Windom Park 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
