#DayWithoutImmigrants

By: Riss Willwerth

This article discusses a school in Southern California in a predominantly Latino district. Six high school employees were recently put on leave for publicly posting and commenting on students on social media who decided to partake in the “Day without Immigrants” protest. This protest urged all immigrants to not attend school or work and not spend any money that day. This all in response to Trumps recent political talk and decisions. Business’ and schools all over the country saw the effect of not having these people work and how it could potentially hurt all their businesses.

Five high school teachers and one guidance counselor posted comments such as,”50 students were gone… it was a very pleasant day” and “the school was much cleaner…there were no discipline issues…roads were less busy”. As well as “That’s what you get when you jump on some crazy bandwagon cause its an excuse to be lazy and/or get drunk” and that “my cumulative gpa increased and the mostly failing students were missing...classes less disruptive...lets do this more”. In my opinion the administration of this school district had every right to put them on administrative leave. The comments made by these teachers are extremely inappropriate and rude and way out of line for any teacher to say out loud let alone post on social media. Although the posts are deleted, photos of these posts are still flying around social media. These kids are old enough to know whats going on in the world and when the politics of today is something that could greatly affect them I see why they would partake in this protest. That’s what this country is about, freedom to protest. I am glad these teachers are getting repercussions from their actions because as an educator, that is just not acceptable and can make teachers in general look bad.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/education/wp/2017/02/19/these-california-teachers-mocked-students-for-skipping-school-on-immigrant-boycott-day/?utm_term=.6d954a5b9947