Skipping school to attend a protest is likely to get much easier for high school students in suburban Maryland beginning as early as January.
That’s when the school board in Montgomery County is expected to approve a revamped proposal to allow public high school students to take as many as three excused absences a year to participate in political protests and other forms of “civic engagement” during the school day.
The district’s proposal is considered to be one of very few in the country that would formally let students take an excused day off to join marches, lead protests, lobby leaders, campaign for candidates or otherwise partake in civic action. It comes in a year when high school students have been at the forefront of political protests across the country, particularly on gun violence issues but extending into political campaign matters including student debt, health care and abortion rights.
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7 comments:
Most of the minions don't even know what they protest about
More leftist indoctrination!
Make it an entire school event with permission slips and all - then and only then!
INDOCTRINATION at it's best. What next out of Maryland's liberal socialist? Hogan how does this conform to Maryland's education guidelines? Are you going to fight this or have you gone totally Liberal Socialist Democrat?
They seemed to miss the important part-excused as long as there for democrat issued protests.
So does the school allow them to attend any protest or must they be 'school approved' protests.
So would going to protest a Clinton event be approved?
Maryland has gone down the toilet. We spend enormous amount of money to try and I mean try to educate these kids especially I Montgomery County and ten we set them free to hang out either St a protest or in a park doing drugs. Wake up Maryland.
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