ROCKLIN (CBS13) — A Rocklin High School teacher is on paid administrative leave over her views about the national school walk out. The teacher says all she did was open up a debate about the politics of the protest in her classroom . . . She says it was only appropriate to talk to her class about the politics of organized protests, ahead of the school walkout.
But she says the school disagreed with her views and told her to stay home Wednesday morning.
. . .
Benzel says she never discouraged her students from participating in the national school walk out, but she did question whether it’s appropriate for a school to support a protest against gun violence if they’re not willing to support all protests . . . And so I just kind of used the example which I know it’s really controversial, but I know it was the best example I thought of at the time—a group of students nationwide, or even locally, decided ‘I want to walk out of school for 17 minutes’ and go in the quad area and protest abortion, would that be allowed by our administration?” she said.
She says the administration didn’t talk to her about her lecture, last week . . . But while thousands of students walked out of class, Mrs. Benzel received a letter from her human resources department, informing her she’s being placed on paid administrative leave.
“A Rocklin High School teacher has been placed on paid administrative leave due to several complaints from parents and students involving the teacher’s communications regarding today’s student-led civic engagement activities.”
“If you’re going to allow students to walk up and get out of class without penalty then you have to allow any group of students that wants to protest,” she said.
High School Teacher On Leave After Questioning School Shooting Walkout « CBS Sacramento
She's been placed on leave by her HR department...
I came across this as I was viewing my Facebook feed, where a lot of people, including teachers and school administrators, were talking about how "proud" they were of these students for standing up for what they believe in, and I was wondering if they'd be equally as proud if the students were walking out for something they disagreed with, like, say, for a pro-life rally.
In Rocklin, CA, anyway, doesn't look like it.
High School Teacher On Leave After Questioning School Shooting Walkout « CBS Sacramento
She's been placed on leave by her HR department:
All the school system said about it was:
The gist of her point:
For some reason, that upset up people, and prompted the school to take action against her.
I came across this as I was viewing my Facebook feed, where a lot of people, including teachers and school administrators, were talking about how "proud" they were of these students for standing up for what they believe in, and I was wondering if they'd be equally as proud if the students were walking out for something they disagreed with, like, say, for a pro-life rally.
In Rocklin, CA, anyway, doesn't look like it.
Everyone are hypocrites.Progressives are such hypocrites. They wail against "gun violence" and the NRA ("Hey, hey, NRA, how many children did you kill today?") but support aborting the unborn by the tens of millions. 17 minutes wouldn't be enough to protest that. You might as well shut the schools down forever.
I don't know where the conservatives are getting the idea that all ideas are equal, but it's certainly funny. Students should be encouraged to act and engage on issues that affect them. Gun control is one, abortion isn't. Whether protesting an issue is in the students interest should be left up to the school to decide, the idea that it's all or nothing is just stupid.
Trump is fond of white supremacists, and hates people who aren't white.
I don't know where the conservatives are getting the idea that all ideas are equal, but it's certainly funny. Students should be encouraged to act and engage on issues that affect them. Gun control is one, abortion isn't. Whether protesting an issue is in the students interest should be left up to the school to decide, the idea that it's all or nothing is just stupid.
Only for Trump Muppets. It has been out publicly shown to be true.Your claim is patently false. In any case, what does it have to do with the thread topic? Please connect the dots.
Everyone are hypocrites.
The GOP embraced Roy Moore, so there you go.
Trump is fond of white supremacists, and hates people who aren't white.
There is plenty of hypocrisy to go around.
So there's no teen pregnancy now?
Your claim is patently false. In any case, what does it have to do with the thread topic? Please connect the dots.
It's a thread, therefore teh TDS sufferers have to post TDS crap.
The GOP is so ****ed and they should be scared because when these kids soon vote, It sure the hell ain’t going to be Republican.
Do you need a safe space to go to?
Thanks for starting a topic about this. I hope the story continues to spread.
I'm curious to see how it's handled.
So far, not well.
It sounds like fake news......
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