A co-worker today stated he didn’t care about the walkout one way or the other. Mentioned it was freedom of speech. I agreed, that yes, they did have the right to protest, but not on my time and my dime as a taxpayer who has to pay for a full day’s teaching for these dolts.
I am pretty sure children in school do not have a constitutional right to freedom of speech, per se. For example, you can’t have a long conversation with another student while the teacher is giving instruction. You will be sent to the principal’s office and eventually suspended or expelled if you keep it up.
So this idea that a walkout is guaranteed by the First Amendments is pretty laughable. There are a lot of rights minor students don’t have or can’t exercise at school.
Another example. The school can open your locker at any time for any reason without your approval to see what you have in there. I think most don’t to give students a reasonable amount of privacy, but they CAN. They don’t need a judge to sign a warrant for it, like a police officer would have to do with your gym locker at a private gym.
Minor children don’t have legal rights per se and especially not at school.