Students in a Virginia school district will soon be allowed to take a day off in order to participate in protests in a novel new policy.
The school board of Fairfax County has confirmed it will formerly allow the children to skip a day of class in order to exercise their civil rights.
It comes amid a wave of student activism across the country which has seen thousands of young people take to the streets to call for change, from stricter gun laws to action on climate change.
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I believe students want was is best butvdo not realize what the price they would have to pay or give up in their lives to achieve that goal. For example - giving up straws but not bottled water (plastic bottles); shutting down industrial plants do to containing water and putting smog in the air but not giving up designer clothes. We are leading our children down the wrong path when it is okay to demonstrate about an issue instead of working on improving the issue.
ReplyDeleteThe brainwashing of our children just continues... public schools are a disgrace..we spend more per student then any other country and yet we score 25th in the world.. wake up America!!!
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