Pennridge students got detention for gun walk out tweet must see!

[bronxiteforever]

Link to tweet

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46 of the #Pennridge225 served the first Saturday morning detention today. Pennridge students wore Parkland victims' names and sat, arms linked, for the whole dentention. A modern sit in.


They turned detention into another demonstration. These kids are damn heroes.

[Wellstone ruled]

1. Looks like some School Adminstrators still have not

got the message. You do not smother legitimate protest.

If you doubt the end results,well,remember what happened to LBJ and Richard Nixon. My guess is,these same Adminstrator's are Sons and Daughters of those who were in those protests.

[LeftInTX]

3. I'm sure they got detention for skipping class.

They let us protest at school, but if we skipped class that was a no-no. We participated in sit-ins, as long as was we weren't skipping class it was fine.

I remember one teacher came up to me with a class schedule in hand.

I was busted.

[Farmer-Rick]

20. In the early 70s, my class mates and I had regular sit ins

We mostly protested dress codes (girls still were not allowed to wear pants) but restrictions to school grounds during lunch, teachers hitting students and bad cafeteria food were also on the list. We regularly missed classes for this And we never received detention or punishment.

My, how times have changed.

[LeftInTX]

21. That was my time too. If they caught you skipping class, detention AND

call my parents.


I didn't mind detention, but my parents were super strict!

If they caught you smoking in the bathroom, you got detention, but they didn't call parents.

I think we had sit ins for too much homework, strict teachers, and wanting an indoor smoking area. We also had sit ins just to hangout in the halls, sing our favorite songs and listen to our transistor radios. (We were such patriots - LOL)

[trixie2]

47. We just had to have a note from our parents

Our school was in a very blue part of the state. Many of our teachers were there along side with us.

[bronxiteforever]

4. I agree and they protesting for their lives.

[Wellstone ruled]

7. Hey,as one who was a Charter member of the Home Room Detention Gang

for protesting School Dress Codes,and Lousy Hot lunch food selections. Proud of my accomplishments for the betterment of the whole Student Body. Good grief,that was the late fifties.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

50. We protested finding hair in our school lunches. n/t

[Wellstone ruled]

52. Oh my,remember

Mrs.Gaffney getting busted for that by the Principle. He He He,she was the head Cook at the time. Long White Hairs in the Jello .

[Rebl2]

36. Exactly my thought

Protesting to save their lives

[lark]

46. We were also protesting for lives during the Viet Nam war.

If you were a guy, you were protesting for your life. Since I was a girl, I protested, marched, sat-in, for the lives of my friends and the lives of the innocent Viet Namese people.

[Scurrilous]

2. K&R

[Freedomofspeech]

5. I love this!

So proud of these young people?

[malaise]

6. Beautiful

Thank you young people

[seleff]

12. Love my District Board

Superintendent and Board came out with a quite supportive policy the days before. I had a test scheduled; most came back to class and had enough time to finish. The rest will finish in morning tutorial and after school this week. I am so encouraged by the student response, and proud and honored to be their teacher.

[malaise]

13. Proud of you too teacher!!!

[Oppaloopa]

8. This is my old school. Lots of Mennonites when I attended.

[Freddie]

27. Howdy neighbor! QCSD here

Lots of Mennonites in my class too (mid-70s) and some of the girls still wore the head covering. Haven’t seen that in quite a while. At least one of the big Mennonite churches up here is now non-denominational.

[keithbvadu2]

9. Dylan Roof's sister against the demonstrators

https://www.google.com/search?q=dylan+roof+sister&sitesearch=democraticunderground.com

Arrested for carrying weapons and drugs.

[Lars39]

10. Truly outstanding

I’m so in awe of them.

[Leghorn21]

11. Cool af. Cant even say in words how grateful I am to these kids doing what theyre doing.

RESPECT



Oh, here is a short clip of the beginning of this “detention”

https://mobile.twitter.com/annatinn/status/975109309507006465/video/1

[bronxiteforever]

15. Thanks for posting that!

[Leghorn21]

19. And thank YOU for your OP, b!! nt

[Downtown Hound]

14. And that's how you do it

You wanna punish us? Okay, we'll take that punishment and use it against you! Your move.

[cp]

16. Kids are not only all right, they're SPLENDID

Bravo!

[bronxiteforever]

18. Brilliant!

[3Hotdogs]

17. I think this was more effective than the original walk-out.

[demigoddess]

22. beautiful.

[Upthevibe]

24. Wonderful....

Thank you to these young people.....

[raven mad]

23. YOU GO KIDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Having remembered a demo in my school in 1971 - we did an indoor sit-down because it was 40 below outside - the idiots suspended! all of us (2/3 of the students) and wound up losing accreditation for the quarter..................

GO KIDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[MyOwnPeace]

25. Those kids..........

learned more that day than they would have in an entire semester of book work and study sheets for any civics class.

[Cha]

26. Beautiful!

Mahalo, bronx

[bronxiteforever]

38. You are welcome!

[Cha]

42. Kick4theKIDS!

[procon]

28. That's some major girl power on display there!

Those courageous young women are raising the bar and they are going to become the strong, visionary leaders of tomorrow. What a remarkable future awaits!

[tblue37]

29. Kids these days--are amazing! nt

[BigmanPigman]

30. The 2018 version of The Breakfast Club is a definite improvement.

[TomSlick]

31. Wow!

The students are leading and trying to teach our generation.

These young people are leading. It's up to us old folks to follow. Find a march this weekend and MARCH.

[link:https://marchforourlives.com/|

[bucolic_frolic]

32. Pennridge

is next to Sellersville.

https://hsp.org/blogs/fondly-pennsylvania/nazi-party-sympathizers-in-philadelphia-before-the-war-part-2

Can't say there's any connection. But one does toe the party line when they are told to.

[Freddie]

33. Sellersville is in the district

No German-American Bunds here that I know of (I live 15 min. north of there). Historically this was a very German area, settled before the Revolution. German was spoken in the home and many churches at least through the 1920s. Growing up in the area it was 99% white, now slowly getting more diverse.

[bucolic_frolic]

34. Yes, that makes sense

I was hesitant to post the link because it's unfair to stereotype people, but tradition lingers for generations. I was thinking the school admins would be rather authoritarian types based on that. You know far more about it than I do.

[Amaryllis]

35. Not only are they heroes; they are also brilliant and highly creative.

[BigOleDummy]

37. Its kids like these.....

.... that truly give me hope for the future. If any of them are reading this , thank you for showing us "adults" how to do it.

[Silver1]

39. Beautiful.

[SergeStorms]

40. It's wondeful to see them getting involved.....

as activists at such a young age. Activism.....it works, and they're learning that right now. Congratulations, young men and women. I'm horrified that your activism had to come because of the lost lives of your peers, but YOU CAN CHANGE THINGS!

[NNadir]

41. I had occassion to drive through that area. Trump country from what I can tell.

Probably the principal is fond of that Nazi wannabe dictator.

[Freddie]

51. Purple area

I live in the district next to Pennridge. Last fall we unseated the conservative taxpayer-concerned school board (including the president!) in favor of a student-centered board. Our new un-gerrymandered district will be part of the blue wave!

[NNadir]

53. That's encouraging. I noticed a lot of Trump signs during the election driving my kid...

...to college visits.

[Happyhippychick]

43. I'd like to email the principal and superintendent and ask them

If they know how utterly foolish they look for punishing children who don't want to get shot at school.

Do you have contact information?

[Happyhippychick]

44. Here's contact information if you want to do them a note

https://sites.google.com/a/pennridge.us/pennridge-high-school/

[Homer Wells]

45. Kick. Nt

[Firestorm49]

48. Three Cheers

Good for them. I have faith in our young generation and am proud to see them becoming vocal and present in numbers.

[ffr]

49. Engaging to see the level of their disobedience.

I want to hi-5 all of them.