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** K–12 Student Walkouts: A Legislative Remedy
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** Making sure that high-school walkouts are not glamorized in the K–12 curriculum can be handled as a straightforward matter of state law.
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** Stanley Kurtz
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** National Review
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America’s K–16 students have been swept up in successive waves of disorder and lawlessness for about a decade now. In late 2015 and early 2016, set off by claims of racism at the University of Missouri, campus protests punctuated by shout-downs and meeting takeovers spread across the country. Then, in 2017, triggered by the election of President Donald Trump, a wave of shout-downs drove conservative speakers off America’s college campuses, a situation unremedied to this day. Less noticed, but of real importance, in the months following President Trump’s 2016 election victory and well into the next year, anti-Trump high-school walkouts spread across more than half the states. While schools and colleges were largely shut down by the response to Covid during the George Floyd incident of 2020, that year saw America’s youth swept up in riotous demonstrations, statue desecrations, and attempts to intimidate conservatives. And this year, pro-Hamas demonstrators set up illegal encampments at
colleges nationwide, took over buildings, and intimidated Jewish students, in some cases driving them off campus. Meanwhile, high schools in blue cities and suburbs have seen a rash of anti-Israel K–12 walkouts, many in coordination with college encampments.
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The Politics Out of Schools Act (POSA) discourages politically-motivated mass student walk-outs in K–12 public schools. The increasingly common practice of excusing or even encouraging large scale political walk-outs puts public schools in the position of endorsing some causes over others. Excused walk-outs are thus a form of indoctrination. Political walk-outs subject uncommitted students to ideological pressure from administrators, teachers, peers, and outside groups. Protest walk-outs divide schools, endanger student safety, and threaten schools with significant liability issues. Undisciplined walkouts also teach students that rules can be broken with no consequences. This sets students up for still more lawless actions once they get to college.
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** EPPC Is Hiring
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We seek a full-time Director of Communications to ensure that our scholars become and remain well-prepared, sought-after experts who appear across the full range of media channels. The position may be located either in EPPC’s Washington, DC, office or remotely with regular visits to Washington.
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Ryan T. Anderson talks to PolicySphere about the challenges and opportunities of running a think tank in the battle of ideas ([link removed]) .
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For National Review, Natalie Dodson writes that Democrat Senators’ new contraception bill is unnecessary, unscientific, and harmful to conscience rights ([link removed]) .
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At the Bhutan Gender Dysphoria Symposium, Rachel N. Morrison gave a brief update on the legal status of gender in the United States ([link removed]) .
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In his Confirmation Tales newsletter, Ed Whelan explains how Justice Alito benefited from his long friendship with Judge Edward Becker ([link removed]) .
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Ed went on CSPAN this morning to discuss issues before the Supreme Court, including the flag controversies surrounding Justice Samuel Alito ([link removed]) .
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For World, Brad Littlejohn argues that lawmakers need to update the legal framework governing the internet ([link removed]) .
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On the latest episode of Beyond the Polls, Henry Olsen talks to Amy Walter about the latest findings from her 2024 Swing State Project.
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** Richard John Neuhaus Fellowship
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Applications are now open for the 2024–2025 Richard John Neuhaus Fellowship, a graduate-level program in Washington, D.C., for those working in government, journalism, think tanks, or other policy-relevant institutions, which explores the Judeo-Christian tradition and its role in shaping public policy and the mediating institutions of civil society.
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The Ethics and Public Policy Center is excited to present our 2023 annual report. As you’ll see, EPPC is flourishing, and our efforts to bring about renewal in American public life are bearing good fruit.
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