I don't understand why you're stuck on this point. Your problem seems to be politics organized by schools, but I have yet to see you present evidence that the walkout at Field or the walkouts at any other schools in the Minneapolis area were organized or assisted by the staff of the schools. In fact, every account of the walkouts I have heard on this lists points to exactly the opposite claim: that the staff of these schools had nothing to do with the walkout, were surprised by them, used their position to its greatest legal extent to try to stop the walkouts, and will attempt to impose the prescribed penalties on those who did walk out.
So, based on evidence I have seen here, which I am inclined to believe due to my recent experience in the Minneapolis schools, MPS has not used taxpayer money to fund political operations or tried to impose political views on impressionable children (that should satisfy your problem #2).
In addition, the schools didn't try to control what the kids did (aside from trying to stop them from breaking truancy laws, as they would for any student leaving with permission). In fact, it would have been of questionable legality for the schools to use physical restraint to stop children from walking out. You, on the other hand, do seem to be advocating the school controlling what the children do because you are advocating stopping them from leaving and protesting.
What evidence do you have that knowledge building is not the only thing going on in schools? What evidence do you have that there are taxpayer funded (as opposed to student run) political operations going on in schools? What evidence do you have for indoctrination? I haven't seen any yet. All I've seen is baseless extrapolation from rumored events at Field school, many of which we have now been informed didn't occur as originally reported.
Present some actual evidence or stop it please.
Ethan Jewett the Wedge (at school in Chicago)
2. My whole point of posting on this issue, is to question MPS policy of using taxpayer money and time to fund political operations and using impressionable kids to do it.
3. My critics keep trying to label my thinking as controlling what kids do. Not true. Stick to knowledge building in the school. Keep the protesting out side the school and after school hours.
Craig Miller
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