EVSC Responds to National Student Walkout

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School officials at Central High School in Evansville braced for a student walkout Friday but it didn’t happen. Rumors were flying about a walkout to protest gun violence.

They would have joined other student protests around the country in response to the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.

Central High School officials say they were ready in case the walkout happened. While this was only rumor officials are keeping a close eye on all events, real or threatened.

EVSC Chief Communications Officer Jason Woebkenberg says, “If students can figure out a way to do that in a respectful, organized, peaceful manner, then we would perhaps work with and consider talking to student leadership groups in our schools that would want to lead that type of thing next month so we’ve actually started that dialogue, it’s at the beginning stages of that.”

A national student walkout is reportedly scheduled for March 14th.

School officials wouldn’t say if any disciplinary action will be taken against students who stage or join walkouts.

They say disciplinary action is decided on a case by case basis.

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  1. The EVSC appears to be a willing accomplice to the left-wing Soros and Socialist school protests, likely because since the vast majority of the EVSC teachers and administrators are of like political minds, pro-Bernie, Resist Trump, Occupy, Pussy Hats, etc, etc. In Texas, Scool Districts are suspending kids that are absent from school, but in Texas they have police trained and vetted volunteer faculty with access to secret gun safes in event of an active school shooting. But, sticking with the EVSC, let’s look to see who is promoting the “student” protests and note that the Socialists contented a solution to school shootings is a $15/hr federal minimum wage and a single payer health care system (You can’t make this up). So before letting the gullible and well intended ESCV schoolchildren to be useful pawns for this socialist agenda, please read below and do your own research!
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    “Is there a Soros connection? The Women’s March, which partners with 100 Soros-funded groups, announced plans for a national school walkout on March 14 run by Women’s March Youth EMPOWER”

    https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/feb/21/womens-march-leader-works-behind-scenes-on-student/
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    Student protests spread over US school shootings

    https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/02/22/stud-f22.html
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    Women’s March Youth EMPOWER is calling for students, teachers, school administrators, parents and allies to take part in a #NationalSchoolWalkoutfor 17 minutes at 10am across every time zone on March 14, 2018 to protest Congress’ inaction to do more than tweet thoughts and prayers in response to the gun violence plaguing our schools and neighborhoods….
    Join us for our approximately every-two-weekly Stop Trump Ann Arbor meetings. All who support the work of STAA are welcome…..
    We’re gathering info about resistance events where you can stand up to the political forces that threaten to weaken our American democracy.

    https://www.resistandprotest.com/
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    March 14 the national Women’s March organization has called for a coordinated national walkout of students and teachers in schools across the nation….
    Unions that represent teachers and other school employees should support these calls, mobilize their members to take action alongside students, including strike action where possible. The mobilizations should escalate around concrete demands including banning military-style semi-automatic weapons and other basic gun safety measures; full funding for all school services to help students in crisis situations and demilitarization of our communities….
    School shootings are the most horrific aspect of the epidemic levels of gun violence in the United States which is far higher than in any other wealthy society. There are many reasons for the scale of violence but all point back to the savage history of American capitalism and the brutal alienation and inequality it engenders today…
    The history of police and military interventions is one of attacks on unions and civil rights organizations, of spying, provocations and as we have seen in too many instances, the ability of the police to shoot unarmed suspects, particularly people of color, without consequence. Peaceful political protests such as Occupy and demonstrations against corporate politics have been attacked by the police, and undemocratically infiltrated by police agents and provocateurs….
    This is a president who was enthusiastically endorsed by the NRA and is clearly out to encourage bigotry which encourages violence; the whole tone of this administration gives justifications for violence and in his campaign meetings he encouraged violence against anyone who heckled him….
    But we should be clear that while the NRA and its backers currently promote the idea of individually armed citizens and not militias, at another stage a significant part of their heavily armed base could be turned into an overtly counterrevolutionary force to terrorize left-wing activists, workers in struggle, people of color, immigrants, and LGBT people as an auxiliary force to the capitalist state….
    A massive jobs program, a $15 an hour federal minimum wage and other anti-poverty measures, and a single-payer, socialized health-care system which prioritizes mental health care would be huge steps forward in creating a saner, less violent society. We advocate all measures that would reduce the level of inequality in society and that would dismantle institutional racism, but we stress that only by uprooting capitalism can we create a just, egalitarian society

    https://www.socialistalternative.org/2018/02/21/parkland-school-massacre-youth-rise-violence-inequality/

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