donofmp08
17th April 2006, 20:21
At my highschool, there is a large hispanic population( more than white people actually), mostly mexican me being one of them. The past week or so there has been much talk about joining in the May Day walk-outs.at a pep-rally last week for our soccer team, a group of kids took a huge mexican flag to school, proudly displaying on the campus and in the stands, even better, the teachers made no attempt, to take it. But they did make an announcment stating all walk-outs will be considered truent, and will possibly be suspended. They are encouraging parents to ensure that their kids attend school, on may day. They have also made it clear, that any violence in school relating to the protest will not be tolerated.
As of now nobody is really organized,many people who want to walk out do not even know what they are protesting, others just want an exucse to skip school. For the ones that do wish to protet, they consist of small groups of friends, and the students are not united, so what should be done, as disorganized as we are, I fear a walk-out will end terribly, and draw criticism from the town, like the dallas student walk-outs did. I think it would be better to have a peaceful protest at school, and have gotten about 16 people to join me. But with hundreds of hispanics planning do to there own thing on may 1st, I think there will be mixed results, people walking out, others protesting, what cas be done to unite the students before may 1st?and what is better to walk-out or stay at school and hold a protest. I think getting our school soccer team to all do one of the two, would get a lot people to join in because of the enourmous pride many people here, especially hispanics have in our soccer team.
As of now nobody is really organized,many people who want to walk out do not even know what they are protesting, others just want an exucse to skip school. For the ones that do wish to protet, they consist of small groups of friends, and the students are not united, so what should be done, as disorganized as we are, I fear a walk-out will end terribly, and draw criticism from the town, like the dallas student walk-outs did. I think it would be better to have a peaceful protest at school, and have gotten about 16 people to join me. But with hundreds of hispanics planning do to there own thing on may 1st, I think there will be mixed results, people walking out, others protesting, what cas be done to unite the students before may 1st?and what is better to walk-out or stay at school and hold a protest. I think getting our school soccer team to all do one of the two, would get a lot people to join in because of the enourmous pride many people here, especially hispanics have in our soccer team.