• III@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Yep, sadly those responsible for this idiocy would be unaffected by this form of protest.

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      1 year ago

      Just imagine the media attention that would be garnered if thousands of students at many different schools adopting a new gender neutral nickname on a daily basis for months on end. Or entire student bodies laying on the floor refusing to do anything, for months on end, until there was sensible gun reform/teachers unarmed etc. School disciplinary policies aren’t able to cope with mass disobedience, they’re designed to address the conduct of individuals and very small groups, not the majority of a student body, and media eats this shit up. I could see more impact coming from an entire generation of youth going on school strike than almost anything else I can think of.

      And it would be easy to shape the messaging to be directed at the state capitol, not the teachers.

      EDIT: Though perhaps it would be impossible, given that the very real urban/rural divide means that you’d only have urban/suburban students participating en masse, enabling the right media machine to be able to write it off as a liberal indoctrination/stunt.