Students Walk Out, Demand National Holiday For Cesar Chavez Day (Los Angeles)

KNBC ^ | March 30, 2007

[saganite]

I'm sure they have the support of most of the teachers and administrators.

[Philistone]

Hmm... my daughter already has the day off. But then she's in San Francisco.

[MizSterious]

Expel every last one of them. They're probably not getting much of an education anyway, so let's just quit wasting our time with them.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Sorry to hear that.

Tell her to watchout for the plastic bag police.

[saganite]

That's Hugo you're thinking of. Cesar was a labor organizer.

[SF Republican]

Just a bit of Gallo humor - Well done!

[Doogle]

..oh well..guess the athletic programs will suffer, for each day of a walk out I suppose the teachers don't get paid, there's no one to teach right?
..and since certain schools are unable to control their students, other programs should be cut, let's say...hmmmmm...English as a second language.
...wanna bet school supplies are used to make protest signs?...and since the schools have an over abundance of supplies, someone should take a serious look at how the administrations are spending their government funding.

Doogle

[BurbankKarl]

Just a couple days after setting a new low in the California Test Scores, these anchor babies walk out of class!

[theDentist]

Hey school-children.... F.O.

[Amerigomag]

How quickly history is rewritten.

Chavez stood not for unregulated immigration or the civil rights of illegal or legal aliens. Chavez simply wanted to organize an unskilled labor sector to achieve a fair wage for a day's work.

My guess is that many of the groups who have taken up the banner of Chavez have no understanding of the man, his movement or the times. Were Chavez alive today, based on his attitudes then, today he would be a forceful voice against unregulated immigration from Mexico and a quiet bystander on a broad range of civil rights beyond labor law.

[Philistone]

LOL!

I live south of SF and only travel there to pick her up and drop her off. We do occasionally shop there, but won't once that ban goes into effect. When their taxes drop maybe they'll rethink it. Probably not.

Another obviously forseeable consequence of PC intrusion into the private sphere.

[AuntB]

High school students said they planned to walk out of school at schools across the Southland on Friday, to demand that Cesar Chavez Day be declared a national holiday.

Just what we need, another class of immigrants "demanding" this and "demanding" that. And these are probably not even legal. But when you can cross the border, break all our labor laws unchecked, why not demand the rest?

[AuntB]

Somebody in the school systems had better start acting like adults and put a stop to these children and their childish demands.

As we saw from the Million illegals march last spring, the schools are often at the root of promoting this nonsense.

[hosepipe]

Will/should be known as "Che Guevara's b!tch's Day"..
A holiday to strive for under achievement..

[napscoordinator]

Why would they want a day for this guy? He is not even American is he? If he were American maybe I would be more positive of them getting a holiday for one of their guys, but heck no...American born only!

[Altura Ct.]

Surely we have other way more deserving Americans for another national holiday. Oh wait this isn't about Americans it is about Hispanics.

[JennysCool]

I'll bet 75 percent of these kids have no idea who Cesar Chavez was, other than a convenient excuse for a long weekend.

Just like most of the hippies in the '60s, who didn't really care about the war, just wanted to meet girls, smoke dope and not get drafted.

[Little Ray]

Flunk 'em.

[CindyDawg]

Lock the doors.

[Killborn]

We are not going to give you a freaking holiday just because you whine and moan about it. IF we do that then every one and their grandma gets a holiday. We'll end up having 5 work days.