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2018-06-05 Home Front: Culture Wars

Parkland Activists Announce 20-State Tour: 'If You Don't Support This ... It'll Look Like You're Going Against Kids'

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Posted by Anomalous Sources 2018-06-05 00:00|| || Front Page|| [12 views ] Top

#1 Tempting to show up and chant "No more Nazi's "

Posted by Silentbrick 2018-06-05 00:45|| 2018-06-05 00:45|| Front Page Top

#2 So how did Hogg graduate when he's been skipping school for the past few months. Something smells fishy.

The Bullies of Parkland High....

Posted by CrazyFool 2018-06-05 00:57|| 2018-06-05 00:57|| Front Page Top

#3 We really need to raise the voting age to 21 again.

Posted by SteveS 2018-06-05 01:19|| 2018-06-05 01:19|| Front Page Top

#4 Why graduate when no college would accept him.

Posted by AlmostAnonymous5839 2018-06-05 01:31|| 2018-06-05 01:31|| Front Page Top

#5 Fellow prominent Parkland anti-gun activist Emma González will also be a key bus tour leader. "If you don't support this ... it'll look like you're going against kids"

The crux of many of our problems today.

Posted by JohnQC 2018-06-05 07:47|| 2018-06-05 07:47|| Front Page Top

#6 #3 the reduction in age was done during the Vietnam War era. The rationale was if they were old enough to die they should have a vote in the matter. However, instead of extending the franchise to those who served or were serving, thus subject to a separate set of laws and unable to quit because of that service, they extended it to all. That was the flaw as it ignore the fundamental rationale or intentionally ignored to dilute the voting base.

Posted by Procopius2k 2018-06-05 07:51|| 2018-06-05 07:51|| Front Page Top

#7 It will wind up being Lord of the Flies on wheels. I can't wait...

Posted by M. Murcek 2018-06-05 08:42|| 2018-06-05 08:42|| Front Page Top

#8 Camera Hogg and Shaved Guevara - get a life

Posted by Frank G 2018-06-05 08:48|| 2018-06-05 08:48|| Front Page Top

#9 We really need to raise the voting age to 21 again.

Thirty!

Posted by Betty Hatfield5124 2018-06-05 10:16|| 2018-06-05 10:16|| Front Page Top

#10 How can you say you're fighting for democracy when you won't let the young men whose asses are being put on the line vote?

If you don't like David Hogg and Emma Gonzalez I have another solution: Do away with the traditional high school format that has been proven so horribly wasteful and ineffective. Replace it with vocational schools for the kids who are not going to college. For the kids who are going to college, let them go because the first two years of college are nothing but a rehash of high school anyway. If young people have jobs, real responsibilities and a stake in this country they may be less inclined to run around the country running their mouths the way Hogg and Gonzalez do.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2018-06-05 13:31|| 2018-06-05 13:31|| Front Page Top

#11 Sure hope they tour western Kansas.

Posted by Bman 2018-06-05 14:24|| 2018-06-05 14:24|| Front Page Top

#12 Like the one military fellow said last week, that school shootings seemed to really start up with the millennial.

At the same time the left took over the school systems lock-stock-and-barrel.

And we started over medicating kids who couldn't sit still.

I should think we should be looking at a few of these issues rather than rewriting a constitution that did very well for over 200 years.

Posted by rjschwarz 2018-06-05 14:43|| 2018-06-05 14:43|| Front Page Top

#13 The 18-year-old (Emma Gonzalez) is off to New College of Florida in Sarasota next semester

From NCOF's mission statement:

"Faculty guide students through an academic program that is uniquely suited for, and designed by, each individual student. Flexible course requirements allow students to mold their program of study and, with faculty input, students can even create a major of their own. Students’ progress is measured by narrative evaluations instead of grades, they engage in Independent Study Projects each January, and they have the opportunity to design educational projects of specific interest to them."

My takeaway:

*You essentially make up your own classes and majors
*There are no grades, just 'narrative evaluations'

All for just - hmm. They don't tell you how much it costs.

I think Miss Gonzalez and NCOF are made for each other: a couple of pretentious frauds.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2018-06-05 17:11|| 2018-06-05 17:11|| Front Page Top

#14 Mike, and,in 4-7 years, went she can't get a real job because no employer with sense will hire her, she will blame Trump, and the patriarchy, and capitalism, and ...

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2018-06-05 20:03|| 2018-06-05 20:03|| Front Page Top

#15 How about the voting age be 18+ if you are in the military or honorably discharged; otherwise 25+.

Posted by CrazyFool 2018-06-05 21:54|| 2018-06-05 21:54|| Front Page Top

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