Will you be joining the walkout? Maybe you should reconsider.
This walkout will be pointless because the school does in fact, support immigrants, and is against the Trump mass deportation laws. Walkouts are meant to change something a place is doing wrong or bad but our school is not doing anything of that sort.
School walkouts are a “Form of peaceful protest by students to make a change to something they feel the need to stand for”(Landun Camacho). This walkout, as it is presented, will instead hurt the school and make them look bad, taking attention away from the targets of anger outside of our school walls.
So, instead of organizing a walkout that could harm the school, the students who want to take action should focus on something that will be truly meaningful and helpful. Students desiring to create change should look to a walkout that changed schools back in 1968 “The East Los Angeles Walkouts represented a call to action for civil rights and access to education for Latino youth in the city. Even with the rejection from the Board of Education, the event remains one of the largest student protests in United States history”( by Guild) which at the time raised significant awareness about educational inequalities faced by Mexican American students.
The East Los Angeles Riots in 1968 were an example of the power of student movement to create change.
Without a real clear purpose and clear messaging and mobilization, the planned walkout doesn't seem to have much of a chance of creating any real change. Therefore, the walkout some students are trying to organize will be pointless because our school has done nothing wrong.
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By Aydin Bailon
Will you be joining the walkout? Maybe you should reconsider.
This walkout will be pointless because the school does in fact, support immigrants, and is against the Trump mass deportation laws. Walkouts are meant to change something a place is doing wrong or bad but our school is not doing anything of that sort.
School walkouts are a “Form of peaceful protest by students to make a change to something they feel the need to stand for”(Landun Camacho). This walkout, as it is presented, will instead hurt the school and make them look bad, taking attention away from the targets of anger outside of our school walls.
So, instead of organizing a walkout that could harm the school, the students who want to take action should focus on something that will be truly meaningful and helpful. Students desiring to create change should look to a walkout that changed schools back in 1968 “The East Los Angeles Walkouts represented a call to action for civil rights and access to education for Latino youth in the city. Even with the rejection from the Board of Education, the event remains one of the largest student protests in United States history”( by Guild) which at the time raised significant awareness about educational inequalities faced by Mexican American students.
The East Los Angeles Riots in 1968 were an example of the power of student movement to create change.
Without a real clear purpose and clear messaging and mobilization, the planned walkout doesn't seem to have much of a chance of creating any real change. Therefore, the walkout some students are trying to organize will be pointless because our school has done nothing wrong.
