PatrickH: Teach Protesters A Lesson

I think the district has an opportunity to educate the students and teachers involved in the walk out about the responsibilities that come with our right to free speech. I would hope that the district does the right thing and mark all the students that participated as an unexcused truancy, and write up any teachers involved for walking of the job. I think that it’s great that they exercised their right to free speech, even though I think that they did it in the wrong way, but now I think that its time to teach them with that the rights that our founding fathers gave us comes the responsibility to be held accountable for your actions.

Question: Should the students involved in the Coeur d’Alene High walk out be reprimanded with an unexcused absence, as PatrickH Is Digging Spring suggests? What would you do with the students — and teachers — involved in the protest?