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elleng

(136,833 posts)
Mon Sep 26, 2022, 06:38 PM Sep 2022

Students at nearly 100 schools across Virginia are planning to walk out of class on Tuesday, Septemb

September 27 in response to Gov. Glenn Youngkin's proposed policies that would change how schools treat transgender students.

To see the new rules click here: https://bit.ly/3UIRVjE
#walkout #schoolwalkout #GlennYoungkin #Virginia #lgbtqia #dmv

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Students at nearly 100 schools across Virginia are planning to walk out of class on Tuesday, Septemb (Original Post) elleng Sep 2022 OP
The kids are all right Walleye Sep 2022 #1
Yes. elleng Sep 2022 #3
😄 Yes! underpants Sep 2022 #7
These kids give me hope TexasBushwhacker Sep 2022 #2
Yes hoping; they and their famiies expected decent education in Virginia, elleng Sep 2022 #5
This is why I have hope. They are the great-children of Phoenix61 Sep 2022 #4
GRANDparents! ('Greats' watched how THEIR children reacted.) elleng Sep 2022 #6
I stand corrected. Phoenix61 Sep 2022 #9
Good! SheltieLover Sep 2022 #8
GOOD for them. Idiot governor, smart kids. Duppers Sep 2022 #10

TexasBushwhacker

(20,733 posts)
2. These kids give me hope
Mon Sep 26, 2022, 06:41 PM
Sep 2022

At 65, I doubt I'll live long to see them with any real power, but their hearts are in the right place.

elleng

(136,833 posts)
5. Yes hoping; they and their famiies expected decent education in Virginia,
Mon Sep 26, 2022, 06:44 PM
Sep 2022

and the governor's doing what he can to get himself a seat at the White House, so messing up education (among other things.)

Phoenix61

(17,723 posts)
4. This is why I have hope. They are the great-children of
Mon Sep 26, 2022, 06:43 PM
Sep 2022

the 60’s rebels. Their great-grandparents walked for civil rights they are walking for LGBTQ rights. How beautiful.😍

Phoenix61

(17,723 posts)
9. I stand corrected.
Mon Sep 26, 2022, 07:21 PM
Sep 2022

That’s what happens when I do math and IPA at the same time. Either way it still gives me hope.
One to make it,
The second to lose it,
The third to get it back.

Duppers

(28,260 posts)
10. GOOD for them. Idiot governor, smart kids.
Tue Sep 27, 2022, 01:22 AM
Sep 2022

Too smart to vote for Republicans in the future.



(My son went to a great magnet h.s. here in Virginia. None of his friends would vote for a R.)

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