What do you think about the school walk outs?

I can't really say anything on that. Here in South Western Pennsylvania, there is little to no diversity.

One thng is for sure, the people that went to the protest just to get out of school are stupid. They are not there to suppport the cause so they should have just stayed in school.

And those select few who resorted to violence are not helping anything. Those few incidents of violence could ruin the effect of the entire protest.

And some of the schools were in a lock down just so students would not leave for the protest, thats cheap.

Also, it wouls suck to be them if they have to make up school for this.

I think they're really poor in practicing the right to protest. It's good that they're against the bill and united, but they should do it after school. The schools are losing money each day when a student doesn't go to school and that money is our tax dollars going away.

Protesting is good, but this bill gives them no good judgement to skip school. Even if the students say they have rights, last time I checked, citizens are only entitled to practice their rights once they're 18 and over. All of these protestors are mostly middle and high school kids. So what they're doing is against the law, as in ditching school. Also, what's up with them going on freeways? I don't think getting themselves killed in protest is a good way to show the people how they feel. Next thing the government needs is a kid martyr. @_@

That's pure stupidity.

I personally don't think that you should be allowed to drop out of high school. It's just stupid. But, I would say, let them. They're just gonna pay for it all in their future.

Then Theyll blame the government for never keeping them in.

I think they should put everybody who skipped school into a juviniele detention hall, or just send them back to mexico. even if they were protesting they skipped school and disturbed others in school. By law we are to go to school until we are 18. and the organizations that helped organize these protests should at least get a fine for supporting them to skip school.

But to be frank with people dropping out of school I hope more people do. It only makes my skills on the job market more valluable.

Protesting is now a criminal offence here unless you go through some complicated process. Bah, no more student or teacher protest days. So there have been walkouts in America? interesting to hear.

i think what they shouldve done instead of walking out was to send letters to their legislators to show that they care because some people just walked out of school just for the fun of it. I live in a community that is like 99% hispanic including myself and they passed out flyers at my school for a major walkout and well the school district is already taking action so students wont walk out of the schools here. they are going fine everyone who is involved my principal just said clearly that if they want to protest do do it in the weekend or afterschool

i'm pretty positive that 98% of them only want to get out of school.

Bah, no more student or teacher protest days.

Your teachers cant protest?

My teachers may protest next year because we decided that hey, techers arn't worth much in this country so lets not pay them alot of money. I feel sorry for them.

But that will be my senior year next year, so Grrr!

Gotta love the union.

They're just gonna pay for it all in their future.

Yes, they will all be my slaves! XD J/K.

If I was still in school I would not mind leaving class just to protest that stuff anything to get out of school from work :heh:

These illegal immagration protest are illegal because illegal aliens did not come here "legally" we need to stop protesting that garbage secure our borders. Insted of protesting that stuff we need to protest George W Bush for his criminal acts.:bleh:

Hey, I was down in San Antonio, Texas this past week and I never realized how big of deal this was until I got there. WOW!@_@

Anyway...

All we are asking is to just come into our country legally. Please get a green card.

I also heard about an online video game that the object of the game was to shoot illegal immigrants crossing the boarder. That's just messed up.

The whole protest actually occured in my neighborhood and in truth it was surprisingly organized. What I mean to say is that it really didn't hinder my driving, nor did it block any major roads during rush hour (which I was little afraid of...) All in all I decided not to attend because I had school that day and those projects and papers don't finish themselves. When I got there however I found a good chunk of Latino students were missing and I assumed they went to protest (good for them). However the next day I found out many stayed home that day and it was then I had a couple of problems...

1.) If you MUST make a political stament as a protest, DON'T use it as an escuse to ditch (it demeans the whole performance)

2.) If you don't show up to either the protest or school that's just being selfish and lazy.

Despite these setbacks the protest did make itself and its ideas known. As far as I'm concerned as long as you pay taxes to the government that takes care of you (and most illegal immigrants do with the fake social security code and such) you a U.S. citizen in my book. :)

Besides didn't America kick out the Native Americans from their land? I'm not saying to give the land back or claim that Native Americans should rule the country and we start talking like them, etc, all I'm am saying is people fail to realize that national boundries are just lines on a map and that everyone fails to realize that they have an ancestor (English, Polish, Irish, etc.) who migrated into Indian territory.

So I say let those who work stay. I can't talk though. I happen to be a direct descendant of an illegal immigrant and if she had been kicked out...well, I wouldn't be typing this right now.

The whole protest actually occured in my neighborhood and in truth it was surprisingly organized. What I mean to say is that it really didn't hinder my driving, nor did it block any major roads during rush hour (which I was little afraid of...) All in all I decided not to attend because I had school that day and those projects and papers don't finish themselves. When I got there however I found a good chunk of Latino students were missing and I assumed they went to protest (good for them). However the next day I found out many stayed home that day and it was then I had a couple of problems...

1.) If you MUST make a political stament as a protest, DON'T use it as an escuse to ditch (it demeans the whole performance)

2.) If you don't show up to either the protest or school that's just being selfish and lazy.

Despite these setbacks the protest did make itself and its ideas known. As far as I'm concerned as long as you pay taxes to the government that takes care of you (and most illegal immigrants do with the fake social security code and such) you a U.S. citizen in my book. :)

Besides didn't America kick out the Native Americans from their land? I'm not saying to give the land back or claim that Native Americans should rule the country and we start talking like them, etc, all I'm am saying is people fail to realize that national boundries are just lines on a map and that everyone fails to realize that they have an ancestor (English, Polish, Irish, etc.) who migrated into Indian territory.

So I say let those who work stay. I can't talk though. I happen to be a direct descendant of an illegal immigrant and if she had been kicked out...well, I wouldn't be typing this right now.

I'm Latino (god, I hate that label; makes me feel like the disrespectful reffs that come to my school, most of which are sluts/manwhores) but I went to school, because I think the Latino society overdid it. It's like you go into someone's house and you decide to move their sofa to someplace you want - without their permission. They should've done something a little nicer. Now everyone's just pissed at them. XD

Wait, are we off-topic?

1.) If you MUST make a political stament as a protest, DON'T use it as an escuse to ditch (it demeans the whole performance)

2.) If you don't show up to either the protest or school that's just being selfish and lazy.

Despite these setbacks the protest did make itself and its ideas known. As far as I'm concerned as long as you pay taxes to the government that takes care of you (and most illegal immigrants do with the fake social security code and such) you a U.S. citizen in my book. :)

Besides didn't America kick out the Native Americans from their land? I'm not saying to give the land back or claim that Native Americans should rule the country and we start talking like them, etc, all I'm am saying is people fail to realize that national boundries are just lines on a map and that everyone fails to realize that they have an ancestor (English, Polish, Irish, etc.) who migrated into Indian territory.

So I say let those who work stay. I can't talk though. I happen to be a direct descendant of an illegal immigrant and if she had been kicked out...well, I wouldn't be typing this right now.

Hey, I think people should be able to not have to go to school if they don't want to. Even if they are just being lazy at home. If they don't want to take advantage of our extremely generous education system here, well that's a very poor decision that they can live with. Instead of ditching, they should be happy that the U.S. isn't like countries like France where if you don't do well enough you can't even go to High School (or the equivalent). At least here the Government pays for everyones education through that point. Of course that means France can brag that U.S. students are stupid, but that's because we accept everyone as students.

And speaking of the government that takes care of them, we could solve the entire immigration problem by billing the government the aliens belong to for the care provided in the U.S. A Mexican illegal's kid goes to school here? Don't deport the illegal immigrant, just bill the Mexican government $1000 a year for school. Someone crashes and can't pay? Bill the Mexican government $5000 for surgery. Pretty soon Mexico will stop giving out 'how to cross the border' guides and will actually protect their border from their immigrants as well.

I am all for getting people to immigrate to this country, just get registered please! That way order can be maintained. We just need to relax the quotas (though as you may notice our quotas for latinos are MUCH larger than those for europeans, who don't really have the option to 'cross the border' - they should be the ones protesting about how unfair it is).

Well, at least Bush's speech a few days ago just solved the problem with that.

Personally, I don't think that illegal immigrants should have any rights at all because they're illegal. Seriously. Just be logical. And to add to that, all social security numbers should be checked in a national database whenever one is used to make sure that it's not fake. The US needs tighter laws against illegal immigrants.

I also support immigration into America, it just has to be legal.


I am all for getting people to immigrate to this country, just get registered please! That way order can be maintained. We just need to relax the quotas (though as you may notice our quotas for latinos are MUCH larger than those for europeans, who don't really have the option to 'cross the border' - they should be the ones protesting about how unfair it is).

Many European countries, especially those in Western Europe, are already as developed as the United States. There is no need for a larger European quota whereas in Mexico, the conditions are much worse. Plus, the Europeans in not as developed countries can just cross the border into France, or Switzerland, etc. The United States is much mroe hassle.

In France, if you don't go to high school, it's normally because you're not very academic anyway and you go on to do an apprentiship or a more manual job that the student would like to do. And normally these students don't actually enjoy school anyway, so they don't care that much. They're still technically being educated.

Just a random comment. I'm off now.

well, at my high school, a lot of people tried to walk out over the war in iraq to go and protest in the city... and what happened was the heads of year said people were allowed to go and protest, but the next day they wanted an essay on why you felt the need to go and protest..

so basically people who just wanted to skip school were stuffed, and those who actually felt really strongly were fine with it, and most of them welcomed an invitation to put their views onto paper.

think it was a great idea, myself

And speaking of the government that takes care of them, we could solve the entire immigration problem by billing the government the aliens belong to for the care provided in the U.S. A Mexican illegal's kid goes to school here? Don't deport the illegal immigrant, just bill the Mexican government $1000 a year for school. Someone crashes and can't pay? Bill the Mexican government $5000 for surgery. Pretty soon Mexico will stop giving out 'how to cross the border' guides and will actually protect their border from their immigrants as well.

Nice thought, BUT...

With what money will they be paying us with? Who is going to make them pay? That would just lead to tariffs and a bunch of economic tension.


Personally, I don't think that illegal immigrants should have any rights at all because they're illegal.

Yup, agreed. So does the government agree, hence we have the wiretapping controversy, but thats for another discussion.


Hey, I think people should be able to not have to go to school if they don't want to. Even if they are just being lazy at home.

Again, agreed. If you stupid enough not to finnish a free education, sucks to be you. It just makes my life a lot easier to get a job. I hear that you can't even get a full time job a Mc Donalds without a high school deploma.