Tomorrow is the #Enough! National School Walkout at 10 AM. This morning at school, we had a brief meeting to discuss another matter, and someone asked what our preparations for the walkout should be. We were told that our school would not be observing the walkout, rather we would be asking our students to "walk up" by committing 17 random acts of kindness instead. On the surface, this seems like a reasonable thing to ask of our students. Certainly this world could be made into a better place if we all committed more random acts of kindness. But as I thought more deeply about the origins of each of these two ideas about what tomorrow should hold, I became more convinced that the #17for17 idea is not a good one. As I did a little unofficial digging, the idea of the "walkup instead of walkout" seems to have originated in a Facebook post from a retired teacher (read: an adult). It reeks of the idea that the walkout, being organized as it is by students, ne...
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