Leftists proving their ignorance about the Constitution: students have NO right to protest or leave school DURING THE SCHOOL DAY.

Wow. Leftist ignorance abounds.

The First Amendment isn't a catch-all for leftist scum organizing students and engaging in walkouts.

(k-12) students possess First Amendment rights at school, but these are not absolute and must not cause "substantial disruption" to the educational environment. While students can protest, schools may discipline them for leaving campus or missing class (e.g., walkouts) because these actions disrupt school operations, according to ACLU of New Hampshire.

Other details:

Walkouts and Leaving Campus: Schools can punish students for leaving class or campus without permission, even if the reason is a protest, as it constitutes a safety risk and a disruption to the school day.

Discipline: Schools can apply neutral policies—like truancy, Saturday detention, or suspending students for missing class—regardless of the protest's message, according to this article from Hays Consolidated Independent School District and ACLU of New Hampshire.

In summary, the First Amendment protects the right to express views, but it does not protect leaving campus or cutting class without authorization.

Students can protest all they like, wherever they like, as long as staff is not involved AND as long as it isn't during the school day.

If it's during the school day, staff CANNOT legally be involved , students cannot leave campus without parental permission and no ON campus activity cannot "disrupt the school day."

So whining about the Constitution which has nothing to do with any of this doesn't move the fringe-left ball forward..

Thoughts on minimum wage and tipping. When is enough, enough? UPDATED

 I initially wrote this two years ago, today. I add the following as an update:

UPDATE:

Still the same. Except the minimum wage, ever increasing, is now $16.66 and will be $17.13 next year.

This is an insane amount of money for the work that's done, and tips on top of that?

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Thoughts on minimum wage and tipping. When is enough, enough?

Washington State has determined that beginning next year, the state’s minimum wage requirement will be $16.28.

There are as this is written, locations in this state where the minimum wage is $19.00 an hour. Most recently, the democrat’s practice of buying votes has come to include jacking up minimum wage along with obviously unconstitutional efforts to force taxpayers to pick up the tab for student loans, an effort continuing to this day; still just as unconstitutional and still an unvarnished effort to buy votes.

I have stopped tipping. Period. And I will never patronize any business requiring tipping as part of the bill.

Wait staff are already paid what amounts to an obscene amount of money for what they do. They spend, at most, 5 minutes tending to the customer: They hand you menus. They bring you water. They take your order, they refill your coffee cup. And that’s pretty much it.

And for that, there is an expectation that they ALSO get 15% of your ticket?

So, you take out a family of four, for example. You buy a $100 worth of food at a restaurant.

The wait staff, as I pointed out, expects, at minimum, a $15 tip for the 5 minutes they spent waiting on you, 5 minutes they’ve already been paid for?

How does that make any sense?

Think about it. Multiply that tip by 12. Add it to what they’re ALREADY paid.

12X15.00 = $180 (tips for that hour) + $16.28 (hourly wage) = $196.28

Does that mean all wait staff make that kind of money?

Of course not.

But how much SHOULD they make for what they do?

And yes, this applies to all of the other workers demanding to, effectively, be paid twice for their jobs, such as Door Dash and Uber and so forth.

The reality of life is this: we are EXPECTED to tip in some segments, and ignore tipping in the rest.

We do not, for example, tip our dentist, our doctors, or our mechanic, the cashier at the grocery store, the plumber, or any number of others we hire to work for us.

Why not?

If someone with higher education or training who saves your life isn’t eligible/worth tipping, then why is it that someone with zero job-related education is?

I don’t see it. I don’t get it. And I have stopped doing it.