A Phoenix-area high school pulled the plug on a planned on-campus appearance by Erika Kirk after a wave of student and parent complaints forced administrators to reconsider hosting the Turning Point USA chief during school hours, according to a new report.Pinnacle High School principal Jeremy Richar...
  • homes@piefed.worldEnglish
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    4 hours ago

    ok, so the headline makes it sound like a bit more than what it was, but:

    A Phoenix-area high school pulled the plug on a planned on-campus appearance by Erika Kirk after a wave of student and parent complaints forced administrators to reconsider hosting the Turning Point USA chief during school hours, according to a new report.

    Pinnacle High School principal Jeremy Richards sent families a notice Thursday announcing the event would be relocated off school grounds and pushed to after the final bell, saying the visit had the potential to create serious problems for the school day, The Daily Beast reported Friday.

    still, glad to hear that some people at the school had the sense to stop this crazy bullshit before it started

    Students were blunt about their objections.

    “It’s a little crazy because I would never have expected someone like her to show up at a high school,” one senior said. Another told local news the ideology she promotes had no place in a classroom setting and that the school could find far more appropriate guest speakers.

    “I think the topics that she talks about are too extremist for a school. I think there are better representatives we can have,” said Francisco Sanchez, also a senior.

        • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          1 hour ago

          I’m going to have to watch the doc. I very much have my doubts, too. People love to dunk on boomers, but, FFS, that’s the generation known for the hippies. And now the term “boomers” has flipped into shorthand for people sitting around watching Faux “News” vs. people sparking up a joint and tending to their pot plants…

          If they are supposedly the worst now that they are reaching old age, just imagine what having no media filter/gating (as right wing as the corporate “liberal media” was and is - sure, that filter of the MSM is a two-edged sword, but fuuuuuck, if you let YT send you down the Nazi rabbit hole long before you’ve ever developed any kind of media literacy and/or critical thinking skills, it is going to cook your brain) and being given something like a tablet/phone from a very young age…

      • homes@piefed.worldEnglish
        11·
        4 hours ago

        Yeah, the article basically says, “the parents also had problems” without really elaborating too much lol

    • vividspecter@aussie.zone
      2·
      2 hours ago

      “Sense” seems to be responding to backlash in this case. They are still supporting TP’s extreme right-wing anti-education propaganda, by a school of all places!

      EDIT: It read like the school were organising it themselves but it seems it was by a student club? Kind of weird that such a thing exists and they can host “high-profile” people, but there might be some indication the school itself wasn’t aware of it.

      The relocated gathering will be restricted to members of a TPUSA-affiliated student club and a single guest apiece. School officials were careful to note that taxpayer money won’t foot the bill, and the visit carries no official district stamp of approval.

      • homes@piefed.worldEnglish
        3·
        2 hours ago

        seems to me like TP reached out to maybe some neo-nazi district admin that made a short-term booking with little-to-no notice (so they couldn’t stop the nazis) to the actual school admin (except maybe the principle through some super-vague email, designed to hide the nazis) about some “district-mandated school assembly” (of nazis).

        Some state/county/local law must have kicked in, requiring some sort of disclosure to some series of people the ended up in people being informed they were about to be mind-pissed by a bunch of christo-nazis, and, clearly, lots of people - included very not-stupid children - had a major fucking problem with that.

        proud of those kids!

        these aren’t just American values… I hope these are HUMAN values!

        if you don’t believe this, I don’t think you should be considered human