Look homeward, young 'change agents'

Michelle Malkin

Here is my homework assignment for all the fist-clenching, gun control-demanding teenagers walking out of classrooms this week (and next week and next month) to protest school shootings:

Ask not what the rest of the country can do for your local school’s safety; ask what your local school boards and superintendents have been failing to do for you.

Chances are, the adults closest to you – those most directly responsible for your security – have been shirking their primary duties, squandering scarce resources and deflecting blame.

Yes, it’s glamorous and exciting to appear on “The Ellen Show,” rub elbows with Eminem at the iHeartRadio Music Awards, pal around with Anderson Cooper, and soak up praise and donations from George Clooney and Oprah for shouting at the NRA, Republicans and President Trump.

Sure, it’s fun to ditch your homework, parade around in “March For Our Lives” swag and watch your Twitter mentions explode like SpaceX launches every time you indignantly accuse gun-owning moms of hating their own children.

It’s lit like Bic to be the Democrats’ new junior lobbyists, fundraisers and voter registration captains.

But when the media whirlwind dies down and the Everytown buses ship you back home, mundane realities will set in.

Negligence, incompetence and inattention to the core mission of education and ensuring students’ safety don’t just spring out of nowhere. They are not alien invaders descending upon your neighborhoods from thousands of miles of away to impose chaos and misery upon your erstwhile Edenic existence.

Take Broward County, Florida. The current superintendent, Robert Runcie, was hired to clean up encrusted corruption in the district and school board that dates back to the early 1990s and resulted in three statewide grand jury investigations in 1997, 2002 and 2011. That last report blasted “malfeasance, misfeasance, and nonfeasance” on the Democrat-dominated school board and within top management at the district. In fact, the grand jury concluded after probing waste, fraud and favor-trading in capital construction projects:

“The culture of misfeasance and malfeasance at the school district is so deeply ingrained, so longstanding and so severe that we believe (employees who blow the whistle) will either be subsumed into the existing culture or drummed out of the District as soon as current attention is diverted from the Board and District.”

Indeed, one former building inspector who was fired in retaliation for warning about building code violations received a $45,000 settlement from the crooked school board. One board member was convicted on extortion, wire fraud and bribery charges involving school construction. Under Runcie, an $800 million renovation bond passed by voters in 2014 for school repairs on moldy, decaying buildings has been abjectly squandered; critics have alleged more bid-rigging, lax oversight and circumvention of graft reforms passed seven years ago.

The grand jury had issued a prophetic warning: “Bad habits and corrupt practices often return when the light of inquiry is turned off.”

Five years later, the district was entangled in yet another fiscal scandal after the state auditor general determined the schools had misallocated $23 million in federal Title 1 funds for low-income students; had “failed to correct safety violations at some schools;” and “paid health insurance premiums for former employees who were ineligible and in some cases dead,” according to the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel.

When public scrutiny is diverted to red herrings and politically expedient scapegoats, feckless educrats are all too happy to participate in accountability Kabuki theater. After the Parkland, Florida, shooting last month, Runcie immediately pounced: “If we really want to do something, spend money on adding more school resource officers and law enforcement.”

What bunk. Continued profligacy is no violence prevention strategy. If school leaders can’t exhibit basic fiscal discipline and stewardship, how can they be trusted to ensure classroom discipline and physical safety?

Is it any surprise that Runcie’s social justice pandering to dismantle the “school to jailhouse pipeline” won him Obama administration accolades – while endangering the lives of children used as political pawns?

The same set of corruptocrats who were in place while cronies rigged bids for personal gain stood by while book-cookers rigged crime statistics to appease racial bean counters.

There were no district-wide walkouts and nationwide protests when Broward County parents of special-needs students were laughed at during a school board meeting as they exposed how their children had been bullied, beaten and bitten by tormentors without consequences in 2016. Nor was there a massive uproar last fall when the district acknowledged a whopping 480 incidents of alleged sexual harassment and abuse in its schools.

As a famous Chicago community organizer once quipped, “Change is hard.” Selfies with gun control armbands is easy. Cleaning your own house, district and county is hard. Junkets to D.C. are easy. Digging through audits and public records is hard. Regurgitating Mad Libs-like talking points against the NRA and Second Amendment is easy.

Go back to class and look homeward, all you young “change agents.” The faultiest faults are near, not far.

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Excellent! I love ANYTHING Michelle elicits forth from her highly intelligent brain!

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Originally posted by darthfuster:
This is how Progressives change cultures. This will not do much, but it will do enough for the next benign step. Now, what we need to do is move the culture in the opposite direction. It's time to Johnny Appleseed the culture. Evangelize the young. Teach them the self defense culture. Take them shooting. Train them one and all. They are willing and excited to go shooting. They are sponges of information. Once properly trained and taught, the Left cannot move the culture.

This is how we will win.

I was at the gym this morning and the bank of TV's were covering the protest, several were on the Detroit stations. Multiple coverage of the march in the City of Detroit, namely Cass Tech High School students marching.

I wonder how many illegal firearms would be found if they did bag and locker checks at that school not to mention their homes?

Remember that protest movement that stated in 2011? Come on, you know? It started on Wall Street, had to do with money? I had to look it up. It was the "Occupy Wall Street" or "99%."

My bet is this children's crusade (look that one too) is going to have the same impact.

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Originally posted by Icabod:
Remember that protest movement that stated in 2011? Come on, you know? It started on Wall Street, had to do with money? I had to look it up. It was the "Occupy Wall Street" or "99%."

My bet is this children's crusade (look that one too) is going to have the same impact.

This morning on KTLA (Los Angeles), a "Social Media Commentator" spoke about the protests and said they'd have an effect like the "Occupy Wall Street" demonstrations. I thought to myself, 'Yea! I sure hope so! Too bad you're too dense to recognize that the "Occupy" movement did absolutely nothing for absolutely anyone, other than those who'd hoped to get their 15 minutes of fame on TV or radio.'

These demonstrations are just another example of the "Resist, Revolt, etc..." movement funded by and intended for the benefit of the Democratic Party, which is desperately hoping reverse some of the massive losses they suffered during the 2016 elections. They're no different than the protests about "Sanctuary", "Dreamers", "Assaults against Women by the Rape Culture", and the "Black Lives Matter" (Anti-LEO/Disband the Justice System) cliques. They're merely part of an ongoing scheme to disperse fear by publicizing a tragedy/injustice of the week story for their own political gain. I wish they'd dry up and blow away with the wind, but demagoguery works with the most ignorant members of any community and they have had a lot of practice.

Here's a sign being held by some of these aspiring rocket surgeons:

Par for the course

Because, hey, they're kids, and that's exactly the kind of sign a kid would make.

OK, now, Debbie and little Timmy are going to tell we adults all about life...

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Originally posted by OregonXD:
Liberals here are proclaiming a day of reckoning with massive gun control in the immediate future...all weapons will be banned and confiscated to protect the children.

meanwhile, all 40 students skipped class and stood around texting for 20 minutes before returning to the school.

total joke.

The lead story on all the local news channels was how "thousands" of students across the state had joined the protest. But if you looked at the videos, there were a couple dozen, tops, at any one event. Standing there, milling around, holding signs ... for a whopping 17 minutes. The whole thing is really pretty insignificant.

Two Words:

HOME SCHOOL

Right now their job is to go to school and get educated to become positive contributions to society. We're paying a LOT of fucking money to school systems to provide this "free" service to your dumb ass. It isn't just your time. You want to protest, do it after school or on the weekends - carry your stupid signs around and make an ass out of your self when the tax payer isn't funding the education for your sorry ass. Same message goes to the educators and administrators, get the fuck back to work.

Is the whitehouse a gunfree zone? I thought there would be tons of men with guns?!

My daughter and several of her friends stayed in school and refused to take part in the mind control. She said about 1/2 her school took part, and of that number, only a very few did it to “protest”. The vast majority did it to... wait for it... get out of school.

There's more firepower than you or I know at 1600.

But, a child, making a sign for a cool protest would not know this, or consider the question.

I don't take life advice from children. There is nothing these brats can tell me about this world. They lack the experience and the maturity required to formulate rational opinions on subjects such as the Second Amendment. Their views on the matter are simple, because, well, they're children.

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Originally posted by parabellum:
I mean it. Their protests are utterly meaningless. These silly protests will net them precisely nothing.

Exactly.

These little boys and girls are pawns in a loser leftist sham, no consequence whatsoever will result.

Window dressing for the commies, nothing else. Barely a blip on the radar.

Didn't watch any news, did they solve the whole crazy people murdering people thing with their protesting?

News coverage went back and forth calling it a walk out to honor the dead and a protest against "gun" violence. Anyone really believe these meatheads organized this nationwide loss of a learning day? They've been facilitated by leftist progressive whores from the moment of the shooting. Poor little pawns.

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Originally posted by 2012BOSS302:
Right now their job is to go to school and get educated to become positive contributions to society....

I have posted before, couple of years ago at the annual faculty/staff orientation for the new school year, the Pres' hand picked student commented (not exact quote) "I have learned it is more important for a college student to get and use political clout than it is to get and use marketable job skills".

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Originally posted by muzzleloader:
News coverage went back and forth calling it a walk out to honor the dead and a protest against "gun" violence. Anyone really believe these meatheads organized this nationwide loss of a learning day? They've been facilitated by leftist progressive whores from the moment of the shooting. Poor little pawns.

There were a number of student protests in Bay Area schools, supported by the school administrators. It was the evening news lead story.

I took my high school age daughter for a civics lesson focusing on the 2nd amendment at the local gun range for the day.