High school students in Edmond, Oklahoma during Wednesday's walkout
The boneheads on the Oklahoma Editorial Board must be a grumpy lot. Reading their articles, I get the feeling they are happiest when they have something to complain about. Saturday, they had a chance to show support for nation-wide walkouts by high school students demanding safer gun controls. They could have helped send the message across the state.
What did they do? Complain. Criticize. It's what they do best. They know what the protests are about but they don't care.
The headline is "Student Protestors Muddle Their Message". Then they cite one isolated case where a brawl ensued with one student getting arrested and another injured. It occured at Glenpool High School near Tulsa. Although the overwhelmingly majority of protests occured without incidents, the OEB has to use an obscure event to cast a pall over the entire movement. Even I had to look up Glenpool to find out where it is.
I suppose they felt they needed additional corroboration to support their argument, so they quoted two teens "whining". One felt that the football field was the worst place to demonstrate because few adults would see them.
It worked for many other schools around the nation. Did it hurt Norman High School's case or were you just mad they didn't do what YOU wanted to do.
The second whine came from an 8th grader who complained she was “not permitted to talk about many of the topics I wanted to talk about.” What did they talk about? Gun safety? Or did they not consult YOU when asked about topics.
The OEB admits these are minor, so why make them the majority of your op-ed? Where is your support for students and their call for safer gun controls...oh, right. It's Oklahoma.
Even then, they can't resist a jibe from their ivory tower and tell students to study civil rights protests to see what real opposition looks like. Yes, that is a good point. Oklahoma was always on the opposite side of the civil rights movement. So, is their jibe a warning instead?
http://newsok.com/oklahoma-scissortales-student-protesters-muddle-their-message/article/5587391
http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/crimewatch/glenpool-high-school-student-arrested-another-injured-during-dispute-over/article_63ed0754-5f27-5267-bd0a-7b5fa5a5808c.html
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