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It depends on what we're talking about. I think knowledge and being informed is the first step when the involvement is a polarized issue, like Ferguson.

if you actually get involved in something like that you are going to get an education. Fast. Now, it will be slanted and that is problematic but you aren't going to get critical reasoning skills sitting on your couch watching 16 and pregnant. You get it from experiences like this.

This is how we create leaders IMHO.

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These kids walked out of school and may (probably not) face consequences for that. Either way, they made a political/racial/social statement and may or may not know the fullness of what that statement was.

Oh I doubt that the kids realized what they were doing but that is ok IMHO. You get that perspective as you gain experience. And hopefully the teachers use it as a civics lesson.

Since 1000+ kids walked out, there will be no punishment.

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Posted by Pettifogger

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Posted on 12/3/14 at 4:48 pm to Hawkeye95

My problem with that is that they're probably letting some characteristic they don't have control over (race, in this instance) determine their position on controversial issues.

My hypo would be:

Ok, you're a black kid at the HS. You participate in the walkout because you're black and the other kids are doing it. You're involved now. So yeah, you'll get "informed" by other people in the movement. Assuming that information takes with you, you're now part of a racial movement not because you experienced racism and felt the sting of being black in white America, but because you happened to be a black kid at school on the day the black kids staged a protest.

Just doesn't seem beneficial to me.

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