[BlackVeil]

Rare to find praise for 1950s style education - which was indeed very good. However, this article raises more questions than it answers.

[Reno89519]

BS about those kids, especially Hogg

[Gene Eric]

>> But there is a more fundamental lesson to be learned in the events of this tragedy: These kids aren’t freaks of nature.

The school and local PD facilitated the massacre via intentional neglect.

These kids were setup to be massacred.

[Jim Robinson]

It was a kid from the same school that shot it up.

[donna]

Tomorrow Belongs to Me - Cabaret
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tUctFu46_c

The patriotic song from Cabaret, in the beergarten in pre-war Nazi Germany, sung by the arian Hitler youth. You see many young and old people getting taken up by the song, but you can also see the old man who remembers WWI and knows what will happen.

[JohnBrowdie]

rich white kids matter.

[Steve_Seattle]

Before the rise of David Hogg and Emma Gonzales, I also noticed that the kids at this school seemed more articulate than the typical products of our current educational system.

So, to me, the Slate article is double-edged; these kids aren't "special" because of their views on gun control, but because they have been taught better English than most of their contemporaries. And, if they are "preternatural," it is because they are preternaturally weird, almost demonic.

[Cowboy Bob]

Remember “Cindy” (?) the anti-war/anti-Bush mom? Whatever happened to her after her usefulness ended?

[Enchante]

Well I can’t say I’ve paid much attention to their gun control ranting, but David Hogg and Emma ? seem rather pathetic to me. Especially David Hogg, who can’t utter a sentence without mindless profanity and who sounds like one of the worst “diarists” from DailyKosFreaks.

[publius911]

They Were Trained for This Moment

The integrity, honesty and character of the protected thug subculture can best be viewed when examining the gross dichotomy between their physical murdering behavior and their whine for "justice," via cute (Soros-paid for) placards and tee shirts, displaying messages about the dead thug, and asking, what can be done differently.

In the future, I will refer to MLK "spinner Martin Luther king" to commemorate what he must be doing in his grave.

The millionaires playing thugball echo the mindless question, "what can be done differently to prevent a felon to be shot 20 times?
Well he could have been shot only 2 times; that's different, but what follows would not change one bit.

The felon could have followed the orders of the law enforcement officers, display empty hands, when ordered to do so, and if he is still shot dead twice or five or twenty times anyway, I would be among the first peaceful supporters marching and demanding that the justice system deal fairly with the results of the event.

That would not include threatening random innocent random drivers passing by, beating them up, causing serious damage to their vehicles, and threatening to kill other cops, and the body cams and dozens of cell phones could document the entire thing.

But since that's not what happened, I would say the ****-for-brains felon ... (deleted deliberately so as not to further arouse the hundreds of other felons already rioting.)

[Nifster]

Apparently the required civics classes didn’t include the constitution

[MarvinStinson]

"Their eloquence and poise"

[MarvinStinson]

DAHLIA LITHWICK

[Lean-Right]

“extracurricular education they receive”

What a bunch of malarkey. If these kids
we’re better educated than every other
kid their age, then they would, without
argument, be smart enough to know they’re
being played.

[marktwain]

poised, articulate, well-informed, and seemingly preternaturally mature

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Short for: They are saying what the Author wants them to say.

[UMCRevMom@aol.com]

PAID ASTRO-TURF
http://www.dcclothesline.com/2018/03/23/emma-gonzalez-parkland-school-student-is-a-professional-actress/

[Bob434]

[[these poised, articulate, well-informed, and seemingly preternaturally mature student leaders]]

Meanwhile, back in the world of reality- These students simply don’t match the over-the-top praise by slate!

[Yardstick]

Those students have been impressively effective communicators, that’s for sure. They have got the art of public communication down pat, and the writer has a point that their school environment no doubt helped foster this.
(Of course they probably also had intelligent parents and stable, stimulating home environments...I wonder if she would acknowledge these factors.) Sadly like many performers their politics are totally screwed up. To me this is the latest episode in how the left has managed to take over the creative arts from top to bottom.

[equaviator]

“These kids aren’t freaks of nature. Their eloquence and poise also represent the absolute vindication of the extracurricular education they receive at Marjory Stoneman Douglas.”

Yeah, right. There’s a lot of “monkey see, monkey do” going on with this bunch. If 60 is the new 40 then 30 must be the new 10 and that’s why they’re still so susceptible to being influenced by the propaganda at ages 15 and up.

[polymuser]

They were indeed indoctrinated and propagandized for this moment.

Pubic school teachers, under university and NEA direction, and supported by the MSM (like Slate), have been prepping them for decades to become anti-constitutional, Godless subversives.

Since Hillary isn’t boss and stripping our rights, other means were necessary to get that ball rolling. These ignorant kids will work just fine.

[TADSLOS]

Extracurricular education? You mean like crisis acting classes?