So, the kids in high schools (and lower) all want to have a breath of fresh air on Wednesday the 14th to commemorate the 17 lives that were lost in South Florida and to protest that they aren’t safe because a former (expelled) student shot up his classmates. Are they protesting him? Nope. Are they protesting the Broward County Sheriff whose deputies went to his house over 40 times because of alleged problems? Nope. Are they protesting the policy in which the Obama Administration paid off the county, the locals, and the school district to lower the stats of kids being arrested which allowed this sociopath to skip free? Nope. Are they protesting the cowardly deputies that stayed outside while he was killing his fellow students? Nope. Are they protesting all of this government failure that would have put him on the prohibited NICS list so that he couldn’t buy a gun in the first place?
Nope.
Not at all. No, they are all going to be the unwitting dupes of the Democrat / Progressive policy on incrementally disarming the civilian population one cut at a time. They will be protesting inanimate objects and blaming everyone else because they don’t “feelz” safe. Instead of those inanimate objects, that just lay there if not touched, they should be protesting the adults – for not properly teaching them about the US Constitution and that NO ONE has the right to feel safe, and not doing their jobs. This is not how life works, but I guess they’ve been coddled sufficiently with participation trophies, told so often they are “special,” and that adults (and parents) haven’t held them to account and taught them properly.
But then we have this: Monadnock board keeps discussion on student gun protests behind closed doors. The reason why they decided to go nonpublic about a few kids wandering outside the school during school hours (a rather bad idea, IMHO) is a doozy (reformatted, emphasis mine):
In a nonpublic session that took longer than public proceedings Tuesday night, the Monadnock Regional School Board considered a potential student walkout… Board members also decided to discuss a possible student walkout at the middle/high school in the nonpublic session, citing state law that allows public bodies to discuss, in secret, preparing for a “deliberate act that is intended to result in widespread or severe damage to property or widespread injury or loss of life.”
…Though the topic was originally planned for public session, at the last minute Tuesday, Witte said the discussion would be better suited for nonpublic session, though she did not provide a reason for the switch. During a recess between the public and closed sessions, Witte said the board was going to discuss “safety procedures” in the nonpublic proceeding. “We’re just having a general conversation in case (students) choose to participate,” she said. “We have no idea if any are planning to, we have no idea at all. We just know that this event has been publicized, and we just want to make sure that if we do have students, that we have a plan in place.” However, the exemption she cited, RSA 91-A:3 (i), is aimed at serious threats.
The law allows a public board to go behind closed doors only for “consideration of matters relating to the preparation for and the carrying out of emergency functions, including training to carry out such functions, developed by local or state safety officials that are directly intended to thwart a deliberate act that is intended to result in widespread or severe damage to property or widespread injury or loss of life.”
Getting the minutes of THAT will rather interesting.
So kids, just cogitate on the above – the adults think you are a menace to society and have already found you guilty of a “deliberate act that is intended to result in widespread or severe damage to property or widespread injury or loss of life.” How safe does THAT make you feel, eh?
Now, does the School Board really think that? Dunno for sure but it does seem, from their actions, that they do believe exactly that? Or, is it the case that they perverted the law to simply talk about the politics of letting students do this? Why didn’t they just do that in public session – where I think they should have. That way everyone else could have seen and heard the political inclinations of the Board – and is that why the Board went into non-public? It isn’t a hidden fact that School Boards and the educational-industrial complex swing left to far left (after all, consider one of the worst districts in the country – Chicago – in which many of the leadership and teachers are outright Socialists. After all, Chicago was the birthplace of the New Left of which Obama was a child of).
Here’s the other thing: “ in case (students) choose to participate“. Does that raise a “red flag” for anyone but me? I do believe that the phrase “the inmates are running the asylum” may play a role here (see opening paragraph, this post). Who is supposed to be in charge here (or more accurately, there); students, teachers, or the Administration / School Board.
Look, a tragedy happened, and there is no going around that. But is this the proper thing to do – disrupting the school day for what has turned out to be a political item?
