The troll is right. Even a second spent away from studying mathematics makes the end of the republic even more inevitable. Standing up for your rights is both French AND gay.
Funding education is good for the economy. Business may like tax breaks, but they NEED an educated workforce. If they cannot find one in Washington, they will move elsewhere.
Continued cuts to education spending is nothing more than slow suicide.
@6 its not free, but the state and national constitution trumps petty things like Eymans tax bills and conservative hysterics. The law is full education, public, free to families, and secular.
If Jesse Hagopian is using his paid teaching position as a platform for political ideology - to organize and encourage students to walkout on the educational resources we're providing βΒ he should be fired.
A group of Garfield seniors decided to launch the walk out in protest of the state budget cuts. Over 250 students committed to join the action within hours of the announcement.
Mr. Hagopian has no involvement with this action. However, it should be noted that Hagopian is a citizen and has every right to voice his own opinion in the public sphere.
Teachers that encourage immature students to actions based on their (the teachers) political ideology SHOULD be fired.
So you're in favor of firing teachers that push creationism, which has no basis in established and accepted science, violates the Constitutional barrier of church and state in the schools, and encourages children toward the political and religious ideology of their teachers?
@12 and @14:
This is not connected to Mr. Hagopian. Garfield High School has a long activist tradition, and we are continuing this tradition today. We are marching for education, we are marching for our future, and we are marching to break the long silence of students in this state.
I have a really strange idea, but i like it. Instead on LEAVING school, why not STAY. Stay an extra hour longer. I think that would get more attention. The administration would have to say as well, that might get them thinking, it would certainly get parents talking.
@17- Right on! I hope other students in the district follow Garfield's example. P.S. Please send my regards to the author of this press release, it was very well written.
Right on, Garfield students! It was exactly twelve years ago today -- November 30, 1999 -- when hundreds of my classmates and I walked out of Garfield and marched downtown to join the protests against the WTO. Carry it on, sisters and brothers!
- Garfield alumna, class of 2001
@14 We aren't immature students, and the walkout wasn't based on our teachers ideology. We are tired of budget cuts effecting our education and the future generations education as well. Not only will these cuts directly effect us but the overall economy like @9 said. Mr. Hagopian has the right to his own opinion and in no way did he organize this, us students did it on our own. Our voices are just as important as anyone's, especially when it concerns our education our future and our lives. We deserve to be heard.
Continued cuts to education spending is nothing more than slow suicide.
If Jesse Hagopian is using his paid teaching position as a platform for political ideology - to organize and encourage students to walkout on the educational resources we're providing βΒ he should be fired.
Mr. Hagopian has no involvement with this action. However, it should be noted that Hagopian is a citizen and has every right to voice his own opinion in the public sphere.
So you're in favor of firing teachers that push creationism, which has no basis in established and accepted science, violates the Constitutional barrier of church and state in the schools, and encourages children toward the political and religious ideology of their teachers?
This is not connected to Mr. Hagopian. Garfield High School has a long activist tradition, and we are continuing this tradition today. We are marching for education, we are marching for our future, and we are marching to break the long silence of students in this state.
- Garfield alumna, class of 2001