Kids, it is your right to protest in the United States of America. (Seriously, click that link to learn about your rights if you need to brush up.) Also, a little civil disobedience is called for sometimes. Just ask Congressman John Lewis, who was beaten on the Edmund Pettus bridge in Selma, Alabama, because black folks wanted to register to vote.
And you’re gonna be worried about some superintendent threatening to mark up your permanent record with his stupid red pen because you spoke out about not wanting to get mowed down by bullets at school? LOL, like hell you are.
If superintendents, principals, teachers, or anyone else threatens to punish you for exercising your Constitutional right to protest for the cause of “I do not wish to be gunned down at school or anywhere else with semi-auto weapons,” if they say they’re going to suspend you, if they lie and try to convince you colleges won’t look at you if you are so disobedient, call their motherfucking bluff. Walk out of that school, locking arms with all your friends as you go.
And if they make good on their threats? Take the three-day suspension, and while you’re sitting at home thinking about how naughty you’ve been, call the ACLU. Those civil rights lawyers love shit like this! And if you’re worried about getting into college, write your college entrance essay about why you walked out and what it taught you. Godless liberal academia loves shit like that!
Dear Pissed-Off High School Kids: If Adults Threaten To Punish You For Protesting, FUCKING DO IT ANYWAY
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