Activism was fine, but truancy wasn’t

Teens’ engagement in the political process is to be encouraged, but hundreds of Wichita students should not have cut school Friday to protest proposed federal immigration reform outside City Hall and elsewhere downtown. It didn’t help that some were uncertain what they were protesting. Nor did the Mexican flags serve their cause. Students’ consequences at school will depend on whether their parents excused their absences. But in the future, they’d be wise to do their rallying after school.
Posted by Rhonda Holman

11 Comments

  1. J R
    Posted April 2, 2006 at 1:09 am | Permalink

    Let’s get INS in on this.

    If a student protester and his parents are illegal, let’s ship the family back to their beloved homeland for which the wave their flag. Their zeal for activism would be of better use there.

  2. Ian Santiago
    Posted April 2, 2006 at 7:09 am | Permalink

    More than half of black and non-White latino “students” won’t graduate high school in any case so what does it matter? Careers in crime and parasitism are in the future for many of those coconuts!

    Viva La Raza Blanco!!

  3. Rage
    Posted April 2, 2006 at 6:12 pm | Permalink

    {Shakes his head}.

    Willya listen to yourselves? Maybe we should mow them down with machine guns, since we haven’t yet established them as good Americans.

  4. heartlander
    Posted April 2, 2006 at 7:20 pm | Permalink

    And if teachers go on strike, they should only do this after school.

  5. raptor
    Posted April 3, 2006 at 7:19 am | Permalink

    Maybe if they don’t like the living conditions here, they could go back home? Or, better yet, go to China and then protest. Say, in Tiennamin square?

    Could you imagine the reception if a bunch of US students ran screaming and yelling in another country, demanding ‘rights’?

    Why do we put up with this? Legal vs. illegal is a binary equation, they are either legal or they are not. It is not a ‘little bit’ illegal to break the law.

  6. CrusaderX
    Posted April 3, 2006 at 11:36 pm | Permalink

    Why do they go to school when all they’ll do is deal drugs and make babies?

  7. Ruby
    Posted April 4, 2006 at 9:27 am | Permalink

    This says it all. If you go to the link below you will see what the students were protesting.

    http://www.freestatemedia.org/index.php

  8. CrusaderX
    Posted April 4, 2006 at 11:35 am | Permalink

    Yes, let’s reward those felons and let big-business justify their hiring of felons for monetary reasons!!!

  9. Roger
    Posted April 4, 2006 at 1:29 pm | Permalink

    They shouldn’t be mad at 250 students for voicing their opinions. I don’t know the count, but just think about all the kids that cut class for the St. Patrick’s day parade back in the day. Were those parents questioned in the same way?

  10. Rage
    Posted April 4, 2006 at 9:09 pm | Permalink

    Actually. this is a binary equation:1/N = a(t’ — t)

    A random example of one, anyway.

    But please continue the lecture, Raptor. I’m quite intrigued.

    What it has to do with INS rules and residency requirements, I’m not sure, let alone its relevance to Rhonda’s post, but thanks for enriching the discussion!

  11. CrusaderX
    Posted April 5, 2006 at 9:08 pm | Permalink

    If they think Mexico’s so great then why do they stay in America?

    Resistance is futile!assimilate…we are Borg