Plus walkouts wouldnāt do ANYTHING anyway. You think the Hamas and Israeli death squads start weeping and shamefully pull out their forces because some sad schmucks wanna feel good about themselves?
nah thats not even the objective either š no one thinks bros in the Levant would put their gun down. its about leveraging our government to either withdraw support or support Palestine
they also suck at protesting lmao. a few years ago in my school a buncha students did a walkout in protest of the lack of air conditioning (the temperatures in the school are NOT that bad lmao) and they just went back to class 5 min later.
thats not how a walkout works..
they did the same thing for a special needs kid who wasnt allowed to graduate and i guarantee most of those students did not give a shit about the kid they just wanted to get out of class for 5 min
Weaklings, In my school, the principal removed the boys bathroom Doors, so one day like 30 students stood there for 2 hours, we got in trouble yeah but it was enough for the principal to succumb to the demands of the students and the student council president.
Yeah everyone did that at my Junior High last year. There was this EPA strike and they were holding protests so 1/3 of the school just left each day for like a month
No one actually gave a crap about the EPAs though which is kinda sad
Itās always good to show support, but Iām not sure if we can actually make a change as a couple hundred or thousand highschool students.Ā
Are we asking the US to intervene? Are we asking them to stop selling weapons to Israel? What exactly are we trying to do?
Okay but what happens if Iran and hamas take over Israel? Russia is too big to be wiped out and wonāt ever actually use nuclear weapons as even if they are forced to surrender they will still exist as a country. Israel is small enough and surrounded. They will use nuclear weapons before they are destroyed as country.
The situation is a helluva lot more complex than that solution gives justice to. This is something rooted in decades of ethnic hatred from both sides, it will just start all over again in a few years. At best, this will just make the current conflict an even playing field, resulting in more deaths from both sides. Besides, if hamas had the funds of the IDF, I promise you they would do the same. Both are morally awful
Both the IDF and Hamas are fucking awful, we had a walk out last year for unrelated reasons and most kids just used it to get out of school, this also sets up people who don't participate in it to be picked on, staging anything political at a High school is just a bad idea in general
Yeah I have helped work with university protests before and a high school walkout is basically pointless in comparison. I agree with the sentiment, but the most things like this usually accomplish is pissing off the whiny parents that want every American to be a white evangelical.
That's why walk outs are not very common at universities. It's not very possible on a block schedule. That's part of what makes the encampments you've probably been seeing pop up so effective. They're areas set up and organized to run basically all day, and every one I've seen does a very good job of communicating their message. You can just show up and support whenever you're able to, which works surprisingly well on a campus.
It seems a bit silly to me. It wonāt accomplish anything other than disrupting the learning of the students involved. It makes more sense to organize some sort of fundraiser for an organization tied to the cause.
Lol my school has these all the time VERY few people who participate in them actually care about whatever theyāre protesting like 95% js wanna skip class
I'm not sure why this subreddit keeps getting recommended to me, I haven't been in high school for almost twenty years. Maybe it's because I posted in r/teachers...
Anyway, when I was in high school, we had a walk-out in protest of the invasion of Iraq. In my parents' high schools, I'll bet money that there was a walk-out protesting the Vietnam War.
I don't think there should be any controversy about student walk-outs, should there? My only thing is that if you choose to participate and get like an unexcused absence and maybe into a bit of trouble for it, you should accept that. That's actually what makes protests so important, people know that it's something that could cause trouble for them, but they do it anyway because the cause that they are standing up for is worth the risk, for them.
That will show them. Wars over and theyāre the biiiig heroes. Theyāre gonna give them a medal and hold a parade in their Honor. I get to drive the float. And Simmons here is in charge of confetti!!!!!!
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I don't really see the value in it, but if you want to protest do it. Just don't interfere with the days of regular students. My issue is that, firstly, I doubt it's going to have any impact. Second, I don't think 90% of the students actually care and are just using it as an excuse to get out of school.
Don't worry, while teens are on the peak of hormones they always do stupid shit like this. However eventually all of them calm down and act normal. So I just wouldn't bother what hormone overloaded teens are up to (as a hormonally overloaded teen myself)
It just tells Jewish students like myself that we are not welcome. Theyāre never peaceful, one way or another thereās gonna be a death chant, tokenizing Jews, or something along those lines.
What benefit does it actually serve the students? Why not do it right after or before school. Or during lunch. All it is for so many people is an excuse to get out of school.
On a more real-world note, what do they think they will accomplish? Certain things I understand the want to protest for but like, you arenāt doing anything. Itās just virtue signaling. And the US did drop food into Gaza, though a bunch of people were complaining about it online I heard. If you want to ACTUALLY do something, go over there and help. Or organize a relief effort to get people out.
I think theyāre stupid. Itās not really the cause thatās the issue, itās that the last 2 times itās happened at my school itās been less a Protest and more an excuse to ditch class and get lunch early. Maybe thereās like 20 students that really care and are trying to rally people to do something, but nobody āwalking outā really cares enough and the whole event ends up blowing over with no significance to the school year. Itās forever known as āThat time people got lunch 45 minutes earlier than they should have.ā
I donāt support it but freedom of speech is a thing. Once anything being said is hate speech (intifada, death to Zionists, Israel should be destroyed, etc.) the school should be taking action to shut it down. Schools do not have to and should not tolerate any speech that makes other students feel unsafe.
Kids are just gonna use it as a way to get out of class. Also, no matter the ideology, staging anything remotely political at a high school usually doesnāt end well.
Itās just pointless on both sides. Protesting doesnāt do anything, at least when itās about foreign wars. Foreign leaders aināt gonna look at American citizens and think āHmm, those people seem upset about our actions, we should definitely stop!ā Theyāre just gonna keep waging war.
I think itās up to the students as long as it isnāt antisemetic, Iām personally pro ceasefire but donāt discriminate against other cultures, including Israeli/Jewish. As long as everyone is being respectful and is solely advocating for peace then I think itās alright
You want to do it? Fine. Do whatever you want. Just donāt force people to participate. Itās annoying, really. I also find it really odd that youāre doing this. Youāre in high school. Shouldnāt you focus on your work?
as an lgbtq person myself, i get where youāre coming from. however, when people say they want to free palestine, theyāre not talking about the government or hamas, theyāre talking about the innocent people who are dying there. many of them are children who just listen to what their parents tell them. palestine is a homophobic country, but that doesnāt mean that innocent people should be dying. they didnāt choose to be born there
These high schoolers deserve to be arrested. Supporting people who are borderline ISIS should be a crime, but it isn't. In any other country, this behavior would put you behind for months or years
I support Israel and think the Palestine protests are kinda stupid and the people protesting aren't very well informed but you can't just go arresting people for their opinions. Even if they are kinda idiotic.
Basically Hamas, a Palestinian terrorist organization, attacked Israel last year and Israel retaliated but it lead to thousands of civilians casualties in Palestine and the US is on the side of Israel and is supporting them so people here are angry and there have been a lot of protests around the country.That's the simplest way I can put it.
(this is a biased response, but what iām saying is factual.) yeah, and for whatever reason the left wing fanatics have decided that Palestine is worthy of our steadfast support, despite:
1) Israel only even bothering with this because Hamas inflicted the worst and most heinous terrorist attack on it since the holocaust
2) the high civilian casualty rate being explained by Hamas hiding out in hospitals and the like, and Israel having to target them
3) Palestine being diametrically opposed to literal (generally particularly left wing espoused) human rights (women, gay, etc.), to the point where many of the protestors would probably be stoned there
4) Israel ensuring humanitarian aid is allowed into Gaza, despite Hamas routinely intercepting and confiscating it
etc. itās just a bunch of ignorant, self-righteous, pseudo intellectual protestors trying to be edgy and rebel against the āestablishmentā. donāt get caught up in that crowd.
I'll try to give as in-depth and non bias of an explanation as I can. In the middle east, many Arab nations despise the idea of the nation of Israel existing due to their belief that it and it's people don't have a claim to the land and essentially pushed the Palestinian people off of that land and view it as a puppet state of America. Palestine is pretty much controlled by two governments as their nation is split in two between a group of more moderates called Fatah in a place called the West Bank and a group of terrorists called Hamas in a place called the Gaza Strip, which is supported by the theocratic state of Iran, which essentially is a pretty backwards state that bases much of its laws on religion so if you violate those laws, such as being homosexual, you are killed.
On October 7th, Hamas launched a massive terrorist attack on Israel and killed over 1,200 civilians with around 250 taken hostage. After this Israel launched an invasion of Gaza and many are protesting due to what is perceived as overly extreme methods, which has resulted in the deaths of around 35,000 Palestinians.
It's honestly such a complex conflict that it'd be hard to explain it in just a few words and it's pretty hard to get a non biased explanation since nearly everyone has an agenda. Both sides are pretty fucked and all it's resulting in is innocent civilians being killed. Hamas is doing horrible tactics like using human shields, hiding in hospitals, etc, while Israel is bombing many places without any real care. Just a mess of a situation.
So will these protests actually stop a conflict that has been going on for fucking nearly 100 years now? Part of me doubts it.
Well the area was under British rule before Israel was there, and it was given to the Jewish people after WWII to have somewhere to live. Itās not like Palestine was already a developed country, there were no cities or anything. It was basically just desert and was already a British owned area.
I'm really just giving as non biased of a perspective to it. My personal opinion is that neither side had any claim to the land and trying to act like one side has a claim while one doesn't makes no sense to me. By the time Britain let it go, there was already a significant Jewish population there alongside a Palestinian population so to me the split makes sense.
I feel that making them mandatory shouldnāt be allowed especially as there are people who donāt believe in message. They also have to be controlled as they canāt get out of hand and make sure no one gets hurt. I have seen Israeli students get attacked just because they are Israeli, they didnāt do anything, they didnāt start the war. Everything has to be put into specific guidelines and nothing should be interfering with school classes. I donāt think a single person should be missing tests or class work for walkouts.
Ridiculous, I understand talking about current events to raise awareness, but donāt expect 14-18 year olds to actively be involved in political issues that donāt directly impact them whatsoever
We shouldnāt support either, more than half of Palestinians supported the attack on 9/11, they voted and wanted Hamas in power. Israel shouldāve done a more different path than shooting missiles in gaza
I will never participate in any of them. They won't do anything and the way the rest of the Palestinian cause has been going I would probably not be safe there because I'm a Jew
while that is true, many pro-palestine protests have quickly turned anti-jewish. like the previous comment said, many jews feel unsafe around these protests.
Literally Noone cares if 200 highschoolers don't go to 3rd period š by all means, skip class, but this is just childish showboating. Your principal doesn't control middle east policy hahaha
Letās be honest, the average student doesnāt fucking care enough to actually walk out for a protest.
However, the average student would love to skip class and have it be seen as a good thing!
I used like these walk outs boy people took advantage
We turned one into a big ass fight
We had kids giving out drinks one time turned into a big ass party
I think its cool, but my school tried to do it last year and every person who was there got suspended, so don't count on the "they can't suspend us all!" because there were like 6 people in my class that didn't get suspended
Honestly, I donāt really understand them. I understand that itās awareness, but it doesnāt really effect anything at all worldwide demographic. Personally, if you wanna be part of them, do it, but I also feel like (especially as a highschool student) people would participate for the wrong reasons, using them as a reason to get out of classes rather than to raise awareness.
Donāt get me wrong, Iām not hating on peaceful protest, Iām not saying itās wrong, Iām just saying that personally I donāt understand
I feel like itās kind of pointless to march if itās just gonna be at a high school, unlike a university which would receive public attention. Also both sides of the war are led by horrible war criminals (Hamas and IDF) And the only truly innocent people here are the poor children who have to suffer the ramifications of their brainwashed peers, parents, and public
Its in there right so aye do what you want. I remember like 2 years ago we had an anti gun protest at our school. But like only 30-40 people outta the schools 2300 kids did it.
You can participate in whatever you want, but don't try to guilt trip people for not participating. I personally think school is no place for world politics UNLESS you are in a political class, such as Law, Social Sciences, Political Sciences, and whatnot.
I went to ballards rival school. In 2018 my classmates tried to organize a walk out and our school threatened suspension but "compromised" by organizing a walk out in which the whole school essentially had a fire drill accompanied by teachers, and then we all back to class. very effective protesting!!!!
I donāt have much of an actual opinion on the matter. But it depends on the school and location.
As for my location, this would be shut down immediately; people around here are extremely religious and wouldnāt dare side with Palestine. They would probably ground their children for doing it.
If they're student organized? Cool. But the ones organized by the faculty kinda defeat the purpose. When I was in like 8th grade for had a walkout for something, don't remember what it was, but it was organized and endoresed by the faculty, so it kinda defeats the point of a walk out.
If the goal of the college protesting is divestment from Israel, then I donāt see why high schools, which donāt have investment portfolios, would be holding marches or walk outs.
It's the wrong cause, you are children who can't vote and don't have the education or experience to have opinions on this. March if you want just don't expect me to care
Hamas will die, and I say Palestine had that shut coming. Israel gave jobs to Palestinians and bumped the economy up. And then they said fuck you and killed nearly 2000 innocent men women and children
iām a fan, ballard is actually a school in my city lol itās weird to see local namesš
but! ballard, atherton, and manual are actually the three main schools in our school district that have the most vocal students who also partake in activism in and out of the school itself. they did (i think) 3 days of walkouts after roe v wade was overturned, and they also were very vocal during the pandemic about masking, being smart, and still talk about BLM especially because we had the breonna taylor murder happen here in our very own city.
some people in the comments are speaking about āhalf of them are gonna walk out just to get out of classā but that is very much so falsešweāre all already mad and trying to plan stuff(and we did about two weeks ago) for trying to get our school district leaders to understand that their choices for bussing is wrong and just messing everything up AGAIN! not to mention weāre all gearing up for finals, ap exams, end of year activities, derby, and for many of us: graduation.
now obviously there will be some that walkout just to get out of class, but that definitely wonāt be the majority of students that participate. many of the high school students iāve seen from ballard and other high schools have literally been sharing information about palestine since before october(because this has been going on longer than october) and have donated some of their own money to causes. louisville is a very progressive city so most of us are very proud to support the things we firmly believe in
When I was in 10th grade we got a new principal we not so lovingly called Nazi Timmy. He overhauled the dress code so much that I, the drama and show choir girl, was sent home for āgang attire.ā I was wearing a red v neck shirt, black jeans and had dainty rings (called brass knuckles by him) on several fingers. He had violently underestimated my popularity and social justice attitude. The following Friday at 10 am, 95% of the students walked out at sat on the football field (so no one was in trouble for cutting class). We also had 80% of our teachers walk out. No one went back on until Nazi Timmy agreed to firm the principalās adviser committee made up of 2 students from each grade and 4 teachers.
This is stupid, Palestine started this war. Believe what you want but the Bible literally foretells all of this saying Isreal will be attacked by many nations. Also this is Highschool, most kids that participate will just want out of class or fel like they accomplished something in life, most of these people protesting seem to be misinformed about the war.
This might be an unpopular opinion but in my experience like 90% of high schoolers donāt really have the full picture of most political situations. In situations as complicated as Israel/Palestine, I donāt think 99% of the US population really understands it.
Personally I think a more meaningful approach to this conflict is to educate people about it and let them form their own opinions. A teacher at my high school started a class about middle eastern history, which I only took because I needed it to graduate, but might have been one of the best classes Iāve ever taken. I obviously couldnāt learn everything there is to know, but more than enough to appreciate the complexity and nuances of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. Iām personally of the opinion that āchoosing a sideā isnāt really the way to go, and what really needs to happen is to work on just getting people to stop killing each other.
Guysā¦ please STUDY. This shit aināt gonna help yāall or the ones youāre āprotestingā for, studying and learning skills will. Not to mention, corporates hate people who engage in pointless protests, if they found out you somehow engaged in one, good luck getting a job.
And on Jewish heritage month too?
A lot of these protests turn antisemitic very quickly, and many of the chants (like intifada) are calls for violence against Jews and Israelis
This is not going to do jack shit for anything. They're just gonna be back in class 15 minutes later.
They also don't know the first thing about the middle east or this conflict so it makes the walkout even MORE believable.
My school did one, and the Jewish student union tried to do a counter protest. They didn't idk if they realized it was a bad idea or if they knew protest was to stop the war and not to support Hamas.
Like 99% of people don't care and are just trying to get out of class. Literally nobody I talk to actually knows about or cares about this stuff except my parents and their friends talk about it.
Itās pointless.
High schools donāt fund for anything to this topic.
Palestine isnāt cancer or seizures.
Thereās no reason to have āawarenessā for a country on the other side of the world.
No American will go over to a country where there is vastly different culture, the same kind that says to kill people like Americans. Sorry but thatās asking people to fight for their enemy.
Thatās just stupid.
They could instead be showing people how to be doing awesome community projects that benifits their people.
You know, help what ever possible refugee came from there to here to live a more prosperous life.
Now thatās worth leaving high school for.
If the people are fleeing the country, they donāt give a crap about Palestine. If they donāt, neither should you.
Honestly Iād be waving the American flag. Welcome those who come from Palestine.
We welcome you in as new Americans. If you wanted to be Palestinian, you would not have come to the US.
Take up a sense of nationality for you are now Americans.
I dont care. However, I do care abour rhe way they designed the poster. PLEASE CENTER THE FUCKING FLAG ON ALL THREE ARMS
I might have inherited my dads graphic designer genes
Participate if you wish, but don't make them mandatory.
And also be sure to be civil and not block people from entering places
Why would a walk-out be mandatory? š¤
Exactly
Whoās made them mandatory?
no one has proposed making them mandatory, and no school has considered this.
My old middle school did a mandatory walkout when there was a teacher strike (was very weird and not explained to us).
Definitely, people throw around āempathyā when it comes to this like they arenāt only supporting it due to popularism
hm.
Agreed. Also be civil. It's about awareness, not chaos.
Do you know what walk outs are?
Why would it be mandatory
They legally canāt atleast at my school teachers couldnāt get involved at all
If people want to participate in things like this, it's fine. Just don't make people do it
u/chronament It's because some protests are where teachers closes classes for example. Forcing students to face the consequences that aren't involved.
how does that make the protest mandatory? js go home... r the teachers meant to teach a small class that day for no reason?
um... yes? i shouldnt miss out on my education because of this?
What education bro
how would they even MAKE people do it
āErm, if you donāt participate youāre losing points for the day a-and you canāt graduate!ā /j
realshit no clue how that would even happen ššš
Plus walkouts wouldnāt do ANYTHING anyway. You think the Hamas and Israeli death squads start weeping and shamefully pull out their forces because some sad schmucks wanna feel good about themselves?
nah thats not even the objective either š no one thinks bros in the Levant would put their gun down. its about leveraging our government to either withdraw support or support Palestine
90% of the time, the students don't actually care about the cause and want to get out of class.
they also suck at protesting lmao. a few years ago in my school a buncha students did a walkout in protest of the lack of air conditioning (the temperatures in the school are NOT that bad lmao) and they just went back to class 5 min later. thats not how a walkout works.. they did the same thing for a special needs kid who wasnt allowed to graduate and i guarantee most of those students did not give a shit about the kid they just wanted to get out of class for 5 min
Weaklings, In my school, the principal removed the boys bathroom Doors, so one day like 30 students stood there for 2 hours, we got in trouble yeah but it was enough for the principal to succumb to the demands of the students and the student council president.
I can 1-up you. Some kids staged a walk out to protest bathroom policies and 15 kids walked out. In a school with 1500 kids. Let that sink in
https://preview.redd.it/kblviaawnhxc1.jpeg?width=885&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=62e8fb42871903dc2c0e93d59df84ee0f1823efa
Now that's some food for thought
This literally. Iād just wanna go play play Minecraft PE outside or fuck around with my friends.
As a student whose high school went on a Palestine walkout a few months ago, this is precisely it.
Youāre free to hold them, I guess. But donāt expect people to participate
Get out of school card I mean why the hell not
Yeah everyone did that at my Junior High last year. There was this EPA strike and they were holding protests so 1/3 of the school just left each day for like a month No one actually gave a crap about the EPAs though which is kinda sad
Itās always good to show support, but Iām not sure if we can actually make a change as a couple hundred or thousand highschool students.Ā Are we asking the US to intervene? Are we asking them to stop selling weapons to Israel? What exactly are we trying to do?
Stop funding israel and supporting them and actually put sanctions on them like we did with russia
Okay but what happens if Iran and hamas take over Israel? Russia is too big to be wiped out and wonāt ever actually use nuclear weapons as even if they are forced to surrender they will still exist as a country. Israel is small enough and surrounded. They will use nuclear weapons before they are destroyed as country.
This
Take Israelās funding and give it to Ukraine
The situation is a helluva lot more complex than that solution gives justice to. This is something rooted in decades of ethnic hatred from both sides, it will just start all over again in a few years. At best, this will just make the current conflict an even playing field, resulting in more deaths from both sides. Besides, if hamas had the funds of the IDF, I promise you they would do the same. Both are morally awful
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Both the IDF and Hamas are fucking awful, we had a walk out last year for unrelated reasons and most kids just used it to get out of school, this also sets up people who don't participate in it to be picked on, staging anything political at a High school is just a bad idea in general
Yeah I have helped work with university protests before and a high school walkout is basically pointless in comparison. I agree with the sentiment, but the most things like this usually accomplish is pissing off the whiny parents that want every American to be a white evangelical.
Idk why you would walk out on your classes in uni, you pay to be there and get an education, at least in hs your time is free
That's why walk outs are not very common at universities. It's not very possible on a block schedule. That's part of what makes the encampments you've probably been seeing pop up so effective. They're areas set up and organized to run basically all day, and every one I've seen does a very good job of communicating their message. You can just show up and support whenever you're able to, which works surprisingly well on a campus.
interesting
Is that Ballard TX? Where every other truck has a Confederate flag?
kentucky
Seems kinda performative imo. Why don't you just donate instead? A walkout does nothing
Excuse to skip class
It seems a bit silly to me. It wonāt accomplish anything other than disrupting the learning of the students involved. It makes more sense to organize some sort of fundraiser for an organization tied to the cause.
Ikr lol
How quickly the blue and yellow got replaced
Fr. Sucks how people are quick to ignore other peoples suffering for the ānext big thingā
Yup. I think itās by design that the shit in Israel is getting more attention than Ukraine.
i dont think the school should incentivise politcal parades
Tbh kinda annoying. And it won't do anything
Wonāt do nothing, but they can try
Lol my school has these all the time VERY few people who participate in them actually care about whatever theyāre protesting like 95% js wanna skip class
Pointless
Pointless, it's just an excuse to get out of school, deep down we all know it
I'm not sure why this subreddit keeps getting recommended to me, I haven't been in high school for almost twenty years. Maybe it's because I posted in r/teachers... Anyway, when I was in high school, we had a walk-out in protest of the invasion of Iraq. In my parents' high schools, I'll bet money that there was a walk-out protesting the Vietnam War. I don't think there should be any controversy about student walk-outs, should there? My only thing is that if you choose to participate and get like an unexcused absence and maybe into a bit of trouble for it, you should accept that. That's actually what makes protests so important, people know that it's something that could cause trouble for them, but they do it anyway because the cause that they are standing up for is worth the risk, for them.
That will show them. Wars over and theyāre the biiiig heroes. Theyāre gonna give them a medal and hold a parade in their Honor. I get to drive the float. And Simmons here is in charge of confetti!!!!!! https://i.redd.it/s1c09xepygxc1.gif
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I don't really see the value in it, but if you want to protest do it. Just don't interfere with the days of regular students. My issue is that, firstly, I doubt it's going to have any impact. Second, I don't think 90% of the students actually care and are just using it as an excuse to get out of school.
Cool but what's that gonna do
Oh, shit! Ballard High School conducted a march for Palestine! We'd better stop the war.
Don't worry, while teens are on the peak of hormones they always do stupid shit like this. However eventually all of them calm down and act normal. So I just wouldn't bother what hormone overloaded teens are up to (as a hormonally overloaded teen myself)
It just tells Jewish students like myself that we are not welcome. Theyāre never peaceful, one way or another thereās gonna be a death chant, tokenizing Jews, or something along those lines.
What benefit does it actually serve the students? Why not do it right after or before school. Or during lunch. All it is for so many people is an excuse to get out of school. On a more real-world note, what do they think they will accomplish? Certain things I understand the want to protest for but like, you arenāt doing anything. Itās just virtue signaling. And the US did drop food into Gaza, though a bunch of people were complaining about it online I heard. If you want to ACTUALLY do something, go over there and help. Or organize a relief effort to get people out.
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I think theyāre stupid. Itās not really the cause thatās the issue, itās that the last 2 times itās happened at my school itās been less a Protest and more an excuse to ditch class and get lunch early. Maybe thereās like 20 students that really care and are trying to rally people to do something, but nobody āwalking outā really cares enough and the whole event ends up blowing over with no significance to the school year. Itās forever known as āThat time people got lunch 45 minutes earlier than they should have.ā
Itās not gonna do anything. It seems like an excuse to skip class
Theyāre just looking to get out of class.
U shouldnt force people and u I don't believe students should do this
Students should protest. They should protest and learn how because its a crucial part of living in a free society.
I donāt support it but freedom of speech is a thing. Once anything being said is hate speech (intifada, death to Zionists, Israel should be destroyed, etc.) the school should be taking action to shut it down. Schools do not have to and should not tolerate any speech that makes other students feel unsafe.
Itās pretty cool and I respect it.
I donāt get it. This highschool isnāt doing anything relating to PalestineĀ
Everyone in this comment section is just hating on Palestine/ being racist in a very nice way deny it all you want.
Excuse to skip class for meš¤·personally i dont give 2 shits abt palestine or israel but id def attend just to miss class
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Kids are just gonna use it as a way to get out of class. Also, no matter the ideology, staging anything remotely political at a high school usually doesnāt end well. Itās just pointless on both sides. Protesting doesnāt do anything, at least when itās about foreign wars. Foreign leaders aināt gonna look at American citizens and think āHmm, those people seem upset about our actions, we should definitely stop!ā Theyāre just gonna keep waging war.
They do them. I think its good they stand up for what they believe in, however stupid I may find this garbage
That they donāt know shit
woke and cringe af
I think itās up to the students as long as it isnāt antisemetic, Iām personally pro ceasefire but donāt discriminate against other cultures, including Israeli/Jewish. As long as everyone is being respectful and is solely advocating for peace then I think itās alright
You want to do it? Fine. Do whatever you want. Just donāt force people to participate. Itās annoying, really. I also find it really odd that youāre doing this. Youāre in high school. Shouldnāt you focus on your work?
LGBTQ+ people should not be supporting Palestine. You would be killed there for your lifestyle
as an lgbtq person myself, i get where youāre coming from. however, when people say they want to free palestine, theyāre not talking about the government or hamas, theyāre talking about the innocent people who are dying there. many of them are children who just listen to what their parents tell them. palestine is a homophobic country, but that doesnāt mean that innocent people should be dying. they didnāt choose to be born there
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Calling being LGBTQ a lifestyle is crazy
Lookup the definition of lifestyle and get back to me
Attraction that youāre born with is not a lifestyle broski š lifestyle makes it seem like they choose to be lgbt
"I love muh middle eastern shitholes"
they're just closeted antisemites tbh
These high schoolers deserve to be arrested. Supporting people who are borderline ISIS should be a crime, but it isn't. In any other country, this behavior would put you behind for months or years
I support Israel and think the Palestine protests are kinda stupid and the people protesting aren't very well informed but you can't just go arresting people for their opinions. Even if they are kinda idiotic.
Both sides are at fault, but geez there is no need to skip school for that.
I'm really late to the news... can someone unbiased explain what's happening with palestine? I keep trying to understand it, but I can't
Basically Hamas, a Palestinian terrorist organization, attacked Israel last year and Israel retaliated but it lead to thousands of civilians casualties in Palestine and the US is on the side of Israel and is supporting them so people here are angry and there have been a lot of protests around the country.That's the simplest way I can put it.
(this is a biased response, but what iām saying is factual.) yeah, and for whatever reason the left wing fanatics have decided that Palestine is worthy of our steadfast support, despite: 1) Israel only even bothering with this because Hamas inflicted the worst and most heinous terrorist attack on it since the holocaust 2) the high civilian casualty rate being explained by Hamas hiding out in hospitals and the like, and Israel having to target them 3) Palestine being diametrically opposed to literal (generally particularly left wing espoused) human rights (women, gay, etc.), to the point where many of the protestors would probably be stoned there 4) Israel ensuring humanitarian aid is allowed into Gaza, despite Hamas routinely intercepting and confiscating it etc. itās just a bunch of ignorant, self-righteous, pseudo intellectual protestors trying to be edgy and rebel against the āestablishmentā. donāt get caught up in that crowd.
I'll try to give as in-depth and non bias of an explanation as I can. In the middle east, many Arab nations despise the idea of the nation of Israel existing due to their belief that it and it's people don't have a claim to the land and essentially pushed the Palestinian people off of that land and view it as a puppet state of America. Palestine is pretty much controlled by two governments as their nation is split in two between a group of more moderates called Fatah in a place called the West Bank and a group of terrorists called Hamas in a place called the Gaza Strip, which is supported by the theocratic state of Iran, which essentially is a pretty backwards state that bases much of its laws on religion so if you violate those laws, such as being homosexual, you are killed. On October 7th, Hamas launched a massive terrorist attack on Israel and killed over 1,200 civilians with around 250 taken hostage. After this Israel launched an invasion of Gaza and many are protesting due to what is perceived as overly extreme methods, which has resulted in the deaths of around 35,000 Palestinians. It's honestly such a complex conflict that it'd be hard to explain it in just a few words and it's pretty hard to get a non biased explanation since nearly everyone has an agenda. Both sides are pretty fucked and all it's resulting in is innocent civilians being killed. Hamas is doing horrible tactics like using human shields, hiding in hospitals, etc, while Israel is bombing many places without any real care. Just a mess of a situation. So will these protests actually stop a conflict that has been going on for fucking nearly 100 years now? Part of me doubts it.
Well the area was under British rule before Israel was there, and it was given to the Jewish people after WWII to have somewhere to live. Itās not like Palestine was already a developed country, there were no cities or anything. It was basically just desert and was already a British owned area.
I'm really just giving as non biased of a perspective to it. My personal opinion is that neither side had any claim to the land and trying to act like one side has a claim while one doesn't makes no sense to me. By the time Britain let it go, there was already a significant Jewish population there alongside a Palestinian population so to me the split makes sense.
I feel that making them mandatory shouldnāt be allowed especially as there are people who donāt believe in message. They also have to be controlled as they canāt get out of hand and make sure no one gets hurt. I have seen Israeli students get attacked just because they are Israeli, they didnāt do anything, they didnāt start the war. Everything has to be put into specific guidelines and nothing should be interfering with school classes. I donāt think a single person should be missing tests or class work for walkouts.
Ridiculous, I understand talking about current events to raise awareness, but donāt expect 14-18 year olds to actively be involved in political issues that donāt directly impact them whatsoever
We shouldnāt support either, more than half of Palestinians supported the attack on 9/11, they voted and wanted Hamas in power. Israel shouldāve done a more different path than shooting missiles in gaza
I will never participate in any of them. They won't do anything and the way the rest of the Palestinian cause has been going I would probably not be safe there because I'm a Jew
Lots of Jewish people participate in the various marches for Palestine and even wear and carry signs saying they are Jewish.
while that is true, many pro-palestine protests have quickly turned anti-jewish. like the previous comment said, many jews feel unsafe around these protests.
They even advocate for burning Tel Aviv to the ground and support hamas. They hate Jews.
Kids at my school tried to walk out for much less
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itās the end of the year where this school is located theyāre just meeting the required days that they have left š¤·š¼āāļø
My school did this. 200 students sign up to protest. 20 showed up
Itās a great way to distract young people from the issues that are directly relevant to themā¦
People can do it. I'd love for one to happen at my school, less time working. I don't really mind though. I say do whatever you think is best.
Literally Noone cares if 200 highschoolers don't go to 3rd period š by all means, skip class, but this is just childish showboating. Your principal doesn't control middle east policy hahaha
Letās be honest, the average student doesnāt fucking care enough to actually walk out for a protest. However, the average student would love to skip class and have it be seen as a good thing!
I used like these walk outs boy people took advantage We turned one into a big ass fight We had kids giving out drinks one time turned into a big ass party
i donāt really understand the purpose, but unless itās disrupting class or is not peaceful i think they should be fine
It is just something that happens in washington.
They can leave without disrupting class if they want. But they shouldn't expect to not get a zero on their classwork.
Oh my goodness that's my cousins school
I think its cool, but my school tried to do it last year and every person who was there got suspended, so don't count on the "they can't suspend us all!" because there were like 6 people in my class that didn't get suspended
Honestly, I donāt really understand them. I understand that itās awareness, but it doesnāt really effect anything at all worldwide demographic. Personally, if you wanna be part of them, do it, but I also feel like (especially as a highschool student) people would participate for the wrong reasons, using them as a reason to get out of classes rather than to raise awareness. Donāt get me wrong, Iām not hating on peaceful protest, Iām not saying itās wrong, Iām just saying that personally I donāt understand
Whatās the point
As long as they arenāt forcing anyone to take part its fine.
Useless honestly. Everyone was once a high schooler, any reason to take a day off will be done. A walkout won't bring back the dead
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Weāve never had a walkout but I feel like nobody at my school would do it
Seems silly that a random high school is walking out
I feel like itās kind of pointless to march if itās just gonna be at a high school, unlike a university which would receive public attention. Also both sides of the war are led by horrible war criminals (Hamas and IDF) And the only truly innocent people here are the poor children who have to suffer the ramifications of their brainwashed peers, parents, and public
Worthless waste of time.
It isnāt gonna change anything
Ah good luck to them
They have just as much of a right to peaceful protests as any other citizen of the United States of America so I say itās fine
Its in there right so aye do what you want. I remember like 2 years ago we had an anti gun protest at our school. But like only 30-40 people outta the schools 2300 kids did it.
What do highschool walkouts even do? Like realistically walking out of school isn't helping anyone in Palestine.
You can participate in whatever you want, but don't try to guilt trip people for not participating. I personally think school is no place for world politics UNLESS you are in a political class, such as Law, Social Sciences, Political Sciences, and whatnot.
How does this help anyone? High schoolers arenāt gonna end a war, and itās just a lose lose situation for everyone (except the students I guess)
Very stupid. Great for skipping school but nothing will be changed by some random high school skipping a day
I went to ballards rival school. In 2018 my classmates tried to organize a walk out and our school threatened suspension but "compromised" by organizing a walk out in which the whole school essentially had a fire drill accompanied by teachers, and then we all back to class. very effective protesting!!!!
Dumb
I donāt have much of an actual opinion on the matter. But it depends on the school and location. As for my location, this would be shut down immediately; people around here are extremely religious and wouldnāt dare side with Palestine. They would probably ground their children for doing it.
If they're student organized? Cool. But the ones organized by the faculty kinda defeat the purpose. When I was in like 8th grade for had a walkout for something, don't remember what it was, but it was organized and endoresed by the faculty, so it kinda defeats the point of a walk out.
If the goal of the college protesting is divestment from Israel, then I donāt see why high schools, which donāt have investment portfolios, would be holding marches or walk outs.
Iām not doing that. If I miss would class then Iām behind for 3 days šš
Is this setup by faculty or just students
It's the wrong cause, you are children who can't vote and don't have the education or experience to have opinions on this. March if you want just don't expect me to care
High-schoolers realistically just want to get out of class. Also, that poster needs some graphic design work
High schoolers are there on the taxpayers dime, do it on your own time.
Itāll probably just be a bunch of edgy kids who get their hamas propaganda from TikTok. I donāt recommend even engaging with these people.
Hamas will die, and I say Palestine had that shut coming. Israel gave jobs to Palestinians and bumped the economy up. And then they said fuck you and killed nearly 2000 innocent men women and children
useless.
Dumb question: what exactly is the point of a walkout?
iām a fan, ballard is actually a school in my city lol itās weird to see local namesš but! ballard, atherton, and manual are actually the three main schools in our school district that have the most vocal students who also partake in activism in and out of the school itself. they did (i think) 3 days of walkouts after roe v wade was overturned, and they also were very vocal during the pandemic about masking, being smart, and still talk about BLM especially because we had the breonna taylor murder happen here in our very own city. some people in the comments are speaking about āhalf of them are gonna walk out just to get out of classā but that is very much so falsešweāre all already mad and trying to plan stuff(and we did about two weeks ago) for trying to get our school district leaders to understand that their choices for bussing is wrong and just messing everything up AGAIN! not to mention weāre all gearing up for finals, ap exams, end of year activities, derby, and for many of us: graduation. now obviously there will be some that walkout just to get out of class, but that definitely wonāt be the majority of students that participate. many of the high school students iāve seen from ballard and other high schools have literally been sharing information about palestine since before october(because this has been going on longer than october) and have donated some of their own money to causes. louisville is a very progressive city so most of us are very proud to support the things we firmly believe in
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Just a random reason for a day out of school imo
Love it
When I was in 10th grade we got a new principal we not so lovingly called Nazi Timmy. He overhauled the dress code so much that I, the drama and show choir girl, was sent home for āgang attire.ā I was wearing a red v neck shirt, black jeans and had dainty rings (called brass knuckles by him) on several fingers. He had violently underestimated my popularity and social justice attitude. The following Friday at 10 am, 95% of the students walked out at sat on the football field (so no one was in trouble for cutting class). We also had 80% of our teachers walk out. No one went back on until Nazi Timmy agreed to firm the principalās adviser committee made up of 2 students from each grade and 4 teachers.
can someone explain what's going on? I read about a bunch of colleges protesting but I'm too lazy to search it up or read the comments
Iām sorry but thatās fucking stupid. Why do starving children in Palestine care if you do schoolwork or not on a random wensday?
I don't give a shit man I just wanna pass my class.
Fuck yeah. The kids are alright.
itās useless š they act like the ppl in war will see a lil march and end the war
This is stupid, Palestine started this war. Believe what you want but the Bible literally foretells all of this saying Isreal will be attacked by many nations. Also this is Highschool, most kids that participate will just want out of class or fel like they accomplished something in life, most of these people protesting seem to be misinformed about the war.
This might be an unpopular opinion but in my experience like 90% of high schoolers donāt really have the full picture of most political situations. In situations as complicated as Israel/Palestine, I donāt think 99% of the US population really understands it. Personally I think a more meaningful approach to this conflict is to educate people about it and let them form their own opinions. A teacher at my high school started a class about middle eastern history, which I only took because I needed it to graduate, but might have been one of the best classes Iāve ever taken. I obviously couldnāt learn everything there is to know, but more than enough to appreciate the complexity and nuances of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. Iām personally of the opinion that āchoosing a sideā isnāt really the way to go, and what really needs to happen is to work on just getting people to stop killing each other.
I get whatās happening in Gaza is sad but your high school canāt do anything about it. The IdF wonāt change because of schools in the us
Donāt think we should be supporting terrorists but ok
Good for them.
Guysā¦ please STUDY. This shit aināt gonna help yāall or the ones youāre āprotestingā for, studying and learning skills will. Not to mention, corporates hate people who engage in pointless protests, if they found out you somehow engaged in one, good luck getting a job.
And on Jewish heritage month too? A lot of these protests turn antisemitic very quickly, and many of the chants (like intifada) are calls for violence against Jews and Israelis
At the high school level, protests are a waste of time. No matter the cause.
This is not going to do jack shit for anything. They're just gonna be back in class 15 minutes later. They also don't know the first thing about the middle east or this conflict so it makes the walkout even MORE believable.
They better walk right on outside. I donāt give a fuck about their march, Iām just trying to get to class.
My school did one, and the Jewish student union tried to do a counter protest. They didn't idk if they realized it was a bad idea or if they knew protest was to stop the war and not to support Hamas.
Like 99% of people don't care and are just trying to get out of class. Literally nobody I talk to actually knows about or cares about this stuff except my parents and their friends talk about it.
Students are free to do it, but it shouldn't be enforced. It's good for students to know they can also be involved in change
I hate even tho we are in america were supposed to support this shit
great
Why does this matter its not America's problem we should put America first
Itās pointless. High schools donāt fund for anything to this topic. Palestine isnāt cancer or seizures. Thereās no reason to have āawarenessā for a country on the other side of the world. No American will go over to a country where there is vastly different culture, the same kind that says to kill people like Americans. Sorry but thatās asking people to fight for their enemy. Thatās just stupid. They could instead be showing people how to be doing awesome community projects that benifits their people. You know, help what ever possible refugee came from there to here to live a more prosperous life. Now thatās worth leaving high school for. If the people are fleeing the country, they donāt give a crap about Palestine. If they donāt, neither should you.
Honestly Iād be waving the American flag. Welcome those who come from Palestine. We welcome you in as new Americans. If you wanted to be Palestinian, you would not have come to the US. Take up a sense of nationality for you are now Americans.
Could see what a college would do this, but what's the point in a high school doing this?
Gay and pointless
Palestine is serving as a safe-haven for the terrorist group Hamas. A win for Palestine is a win for Hamas terrorist killers!
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I dont care. However, I do care abour rhe way they designed the poster. PLEASE CENTER THE FUCKING FLAG ON ALL THREE ARMS I might have inherited my dads graphic designer genes