Walkouts - Students at Saint

Walkouts - Students at Saint Cloud State, Moorhead State University, Hamline University, and Hopkins High School are planning walkouts from school today.

I don't care so much about Hamline; while the students there are rapidly vying with MacAlester for the title of "most specious college students in the Twin Cities", it's a private school, and they're adults.

The students at Saint Cloud and Moorhead are (nominally) adults as well - but they attend a state-funded institution. The time they spend mincing about the quad on their specious protest costs me, the taxpayer. As long as I'm subsidizing their education, they can damn well either stay in class, or reimburse the rest of us for the money they're wasting.

As far as Hopkins High School goes; no way. No high school kid has any "right" to waste an hour of taxpayer-funded time. Not one second. If I were a Hopkins parent, I'd gather a posse of other parents to counterdemonstrate not only the waste of money, not only the vapidity of the education that has students participiating in such specious wastes of time, but also tracking the whereabouts of every single student.

Because you just know that every "protesting" student is getting of of school to "protest". Right?

The liability issue alone should get Hopkins High to wake up and smell the coffee.