Anti-ICE Student Walkout’s Across the Country…..

The Hill post’s up a piece about how student’s , in doing walk outs , get disciplined…..

The story of the walkout’s IS instructive in pointing to even the children ARE NOT happy with the Trump immigration policies…..

Hundreds of K-12 students across the country have received detention or suspension after participating in classroom walkouts to protest U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) efforts.

Such anti-ICE or “ICE out” walkouts have increasingly popped up after Renee Good and Alex Pretti were shot and killed by federal immigration officers in Minneapolis last month.

But experts say leaving school grounds is not a form of protest protected under the First Amendment for students, and Republican leaders are warning of consequences for those who participate.

“I applaud Mustang Superintendent Dr. Charles Bradley for suspending 122 students who walked out of class to protest,” Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt (R) wrote on social platform X on Wednesday. “Young Oklahomans: Free speech is sacred, but truancy robs your future. Stay in school, build skills, and make your voice heard responsibly.”

But as the Trump administration presses ahead with its aggressive immigration agenda, walkouts could spread, with some students objecting to the Trump policies generally and others marching in the names of detainees they personally know.

A student who participated in a walkout at King High School in Tampa, Fla., told a local news outlet his “mom has some great friends and they worked hard every day and they unfortunately got deported for no reason.”

More than 300 were suspended in Northern Virginia this week after a walkout at Woodbridge Senior High School, with one mother telling a local news outlet she is “proud as heck” of her daughter who participated.

Experts say the First Amendment protects a student’s right to protest in schools through clothing or other nondisruptive ways, a right examined in the Tinker v. Des Moines case where students were punished for wearing armbands protesting the Vietnam War to class. But walkouts are different….

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But not all students are facing harsh punishments, or any at all, for participating in the walkouts…..

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