ACPS statement on Buchholz student walkout
Staff report
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Alachua County Public Schools issued the following statement today:
After receiving information about a potential student walkout planned for today, Friday, February 6, the administration at Buchholz High School notified students and families that participation in any protest during instructional time or any activity that would disrupt instructional time would result in disciplinary action in accordance with the Code of Student Conduct. In preparation, the administration arranged for additional supervision and a law enforcement presence on campus.
During the first lunch period, a number of students exited the school building but remained on campus. The majority of students returned to class at the conclusion of the lunch period. Despite multiple and repeated warnings from school administrators, however, some students left campus without following required check-out procedures.
Law enforcement continued to monitor the students while they were off campus to ensure their safety.
Students who left campus without authorization are being disciplined in accordance with the Code of Student Conduct for leaving campus without permission.
Maintaining a safe, orderly, and effective learning environment remains the highest priority for both school and district administration.
Their parents will applaud them no doubt.
This behavior stems from a fundamental disregard for authority, likely compounded by little to no discipline at home.
Worse yet, if those who left had been injured while off campus, the parents who encourage such behavior would likely have sued the District.
3 day suspensions for all.
What were they protesting?
I protest having to pay property tax to pay for their education!
“just imagine humans. We have to learn our culture’s rationalizations and hypocrisies—thou shalt not kill, unless it’s one of them, in which case here’s a medal. Don’t lie, except if there’s a huge payoff, or it’s a profoundly good act (“Nope, no refugees hiding in my attic, no siree”). Laws to be followed strictly, laws to be ignored, laws to be resisted. Reconciling acting as if each day is your last with today being the first day of the rest of your life.”
― Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
You could read “1984”, a famous book helping ask the often asked question. ” What the hey is going on?” A large fraction of my Muskegon, Michigan high school friends read this book as a group project and discussed pending thoughts in school class (English), assisted by the best teacher I ever had, Mrs. Peggy Wingler. This was 1957. It never occurred to us that certain parents would demand closure of our school, our library, and all attempts to do modern thinking. No parents did.