“How and why was Gorman allowed to nurture and later celebrate a mass student walkout and protest with utter impunity? This kind of crap caused the University of Missouri to tank. Why should anyone believe that RHS is immune to that kind of fate? “
Reader says , “student walkout ” sealed Ridgewood’s Fate
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Oh no, there was a student walkout. The world is coming to an end. Grab your things and run for the hills.
a parent and administration approved and organized “student walk out”
I ignored it.
It felt like a victory for me.
The RHS administration made plans for those who chose not to participate and for those who had a different gun perspective and they met during the walkout. I thought it was handled very well and having attended college in the 60’s , I have never forgotten our attempts at protest and or solidarity.
a “protest” organized by the school administration and parents is not a protest
It was a nationwide walk out. I attended the BOE Meeting where they decided how to handle it in Ridgewood. It was a 17 minute walkout with plans made for students with different perspectives. I believe Vince Loncto and Christina Krauss were not in favor but the students were going to do it anyway and the majority chose to facilitate a peaceful walkout with speakers. These kids nationwide achieved what we adults couldn’t do. They made an impact. The NRA received 90 percent fewer donations during this last year and have lost some of their lobbying power both financially and psychologically. I don’t think people know that Oliver North is now president and has been for some time.
Don’t let facts get in the way of your agenda: The NRA got about $98m in donations last year down from $125m the previous year. Looks more like a 25% decrease. Dues (not a bad measure of support) was down even less. But yeah, the 17 minute high school walk out to Starbucks changed the world. Sure.
I don’t have an agenda, I just want what 85 percent of Americans want: Sensible Gun Legislation which includes back ground checks , gun sale loopholes,etc. It is also what military and law enforcement want.
so you do have an agenda
Yes, let’s ban guns. That’ll work. Just like banning drugs worked.
Students should NEVER get the warm and fuzzy from adults when thinking about setting their own class schedule once the add/drop deadline has passed, regardless of what the political issue du jour happens to be. What if the students simply wanted to hold an ice cream social? Would the administration and the school board not have considered that unworthy and told them “cut class and suffer the consequences?”. No, it’s only when certain kool-aid drinking students scratch the sixties retreads’ special spot do their political hind legs go twitching and they become all luvvy duvvy and compliant like Gorman did. Absolutely pathetic and partisan.
Gorman only set about to scandalize and corrupt a much smaller group of naive second amendment supporters to similarly cut class and hold their own protest (inside the building and out of range of the videocameras of Gorman’s friends in the press, of course) to give himself the thinnest of a solomon-like veneer in the eyes of those of us who tend not to think too deeply about the menace of government-sponsored political action. Gorman should move to Chicago and be an Obama-style community organizer if that’s what floats his boat and leave the job of a high school principal to someone who actually wants to maintain or improve RHS’s academic performance and reputation.
You guys are either very old or very young. Gorman went to RHS and though there are many things that don ‘t make sense to me ( being very old), today’s parents think differently. Hardly anyone goes to BOE meetings and I guess that means they think things are okay.
Being an RHS grad Gorman should know better to allow the school to devolve into an NPC SJW cookie-cutter production line.
To the person “without the agenda” are trying to move on without admiting you use and spread lies to support your worldview? Sometimes when people have cognitive dissonance they realize they should rethink their weak positions. Other times, they move to the west side of Ridgewood.
“The RHS administration made plans for those who chose not to participate and for those who had a different gun perspective and they met during the walkout. I thought it was handled very well and having attended college in the 60’s , I have never forgotten our attempts at protest and or solidarity.”
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This is not true in practice.
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Ask students who went to see the protest then chose to no t participate — forced to participate.
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Also “plans for those who chose not to participate” – i.e. corraling students into a room inside the building smacks of “seperate but equal” segregation.
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