Please support these Morton West High School students, who are threatened with expulsion for their peaceful sit-in against military recruitment inside their school. These are the brave, thoughtful, independent students I am trying to help build!
read about them here and here
sign the petition here
call the school administration here
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Good work. Ich bin dabei.
I noticed this topic on your blog yesterday and my mom just started talking to me about it. This prompted me to read all the articles you have included. This incident raises so many questions about the state of our schools and what we expect and impose upon our students.
As a future teacher, you can look at this in a variety of ways. On one hand, you can take the road and see it as a disregard for authority--but then again, that did not really happen. They even listened when the administration asked them to move somewhere else. They were actually extremely respectful. However, as teachers who hope to develop the children we teach into people, as opposed to students, I think this experience will teach these students more than they could learn in most classrooms.
I only wish I had that sort of courage when I was in high school.
Personally, I would need more information before I signed a petition. I think students should be allowed to stage a peaceful protest against the war, if that is what they believe. However, I have heard very conflicting reports as to why the administration began to threaten these tougher disciplinary actions against these students. Did these students refuse to relocate when told to do so by school authorities? Why didn't they stage their protest outside where they couldn't be accused of disrupting the school day? These are some of the things that I have heard. I think it takes guts to do what these students were doing. I also believe that with the high rate of gangs and violence in that area that school officials may have felt there was potential danger to others. If you know any details, please feel free to share them.
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