High Schooler Planned Luna Protests

Despite organized protests, public testimony, phone calls and letters, American Falls High School senior Madai Montes feels that Idaho legislators aren’t listening to the public’s outcry against proposed education reforms. That’s why the frustrated student decided to stop talking and start walking on Monday. Monday’s student walkout in American Falls and elsewhere around Idaho was the brainchild of Montes,  who wanted to speak out against Idaho Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Luna’s proposed changes to education. “No matter how much we’ve protested in front of the Capitol it doesn’t seem to work and they don’t seem to care,” Montes said. “We wanted to do something around the state to get the state’s attention”/Kendra Evensen, Idaho State Journal. More here . (Statesman photo/Joe Jaszewski: Boise high schoolers protest at state Capitol.)

Question: Do you vice walkouts by high schoolers against Tom Luna’s education overhaul as a good sign that they’re involved politically? Or a bad sign that they’ve embraced civil disobedience?