Second Thoughts

[XLFD]

You may recall back in the middle of March, that Ludington High School experience a walk-out-- make that a walk-in, as school administration never allowed the kids to go outside for safety considerations.  The stated reason for this protest was to promote gun control and a host of other causes popular with the left, and to commemorate the 17 victims of the Florida school shooting a month before.  It was locally organized by student Graham Rivet (in the video below) and chronicled here in the article:  Enough Already

At that time I editorialized my thoughts on the matter:  "The end result is not pretty; when citizens forfeit their rights to protect themselves and their families, the State and other lawless bullies find it much easier to take control of their lives. This is what has happened throughout history, is what's happening in Chicago. Gun control is loss of control for good individuals."

It took some time after the walk-outs held on March 14 to protest guns and May 3, but a sensible answer to the Enough walk-out was finally held, organized at the grass roots by a New Mexico high schooler primarily motivated to show that American students had more than one perspective on how to end school violence.  

The protest was called Stand for the Second.   On 5/3/18 (or 5-2-2018), walkouts happened at over 500 schools in nearly every state with a much different and clearer message saying that they support the constitution and oppose gun control.  Will Riley (in the video below) coordinated the multiple 16 minute protests and explains some of the frequently asked questions:

If you live in Michigan, it's likely you didn't hear about this unless you live near Grand Ledge which had around 100 student participants in the May 3rd walkout (compared to about 50 at the March 14 walkout also held there.  Sixteen year old Zach Bell felt compelled to organize after feeling uncomfortable with the earlier protest and hearing about Will Riley's efforts for a protest affirming the rights of individuals.  

While about 500 schools across the nation participated in the "Stand for the Second", you could easily have missed this protest in the news both before and after, unlike the 'Enough" protest.  Despite most of Mason County's population favoring strong Second Amendment protections, you likely won't find any local school coordinating with students so aligned unlike they did freely with Graham Rivet. 

Perhaps it's because they're teaching a revised narrative that you may find in the new textbooks, preparing their students for a future life of servitude under the state militia.

[Willy]

Whoa. Parents had better pay attention to what is being taught in schools. Don't be passive and lazy. The above text book X posted is acommon core textbook.  Teach your children the Constitution because they will not learn it in school.

How the 2nd Amendment should read is:

Amendment II

Right to bear arms

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

Also notice the changes in the 1st Amendment.

Amendment I

Freedoms, Petitions, Assembly

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

Thanks for pointing this out X. I had no idea the leftist had actually changed, in school test books,  the Constitution as written.

[Brad]

Wow!  I haven't caught that revision to our US Constitution in my kids books or work.  Since math is not my forte, and language arts ain't either, I tend to teach them history, civics, and what's really going around them. (as best as I can).

From my kids there were rumblings about the 2nd Amendment walkout, but my kids didn't participate in the "enough" walkout either.  They were in school to learn.

[XLFD]

Most of the school history/civics texts that were the worst offenders of desecrating the second amendment came out about 5 years ago.  Because of the backlash, the texts have been revised.  But don't sit too easily, many educators avoid the controversy by either treating it like the third amendment (i.e. historically outdated) or ignoring its significance completely. 

And that's too bad since both sides could learn so much with a little healthy debate in the classrooms.  Both walkouts, 'Stand' and 'Enough', seemed not to trigger any discussion between opposing thoughts at the schools where they happened.  I would pay to see MCC's state-best forensics squad split into two teams and discussing the topic like adults, since we can't generally get adults to do that anyway.