Student Planning A Pro-Life Protest To Test The Tolerance Of School Administrators

A few days ago, students across the country participated in National Walkout Day. Basically, a bunch of students walked out of class to protest gun violence. Each school handled it differently. Some allowed students to get up and go to a designated area to “participate.”

Whatever.

One teacher in California was suspended after questioning the possible double standard posed by the walkout. The Rocklin High School history teacher, Julianne Benzel, opened up a conversation about the protest.

Benzel says she never discouraged her students from participating in the national school walk out, but she did question whether it’s appropriate for a school to support a protest against gun violence if they’re not willing to support all protests.

“And so I just kind of used the example which I know it’s really controversial, but I know it was the best example I thought of at the time—a group of students nationwide, or even locally, decided ‘I want to walk out of school for 17 minutes’ and go in the quad area and protest abortion, would that be allowed by our administration?” she said.

She got in BIG TROUBLE for that.

But while thousands of students walked out of class, Mrs. Benzel received a letter from her human resources department, informing her she’s being placed on paid administrative leave.

“I didn’t get any backlash from my students. All my students totally understood that there could not be a double standard,” she said.

She’s back, but her point still stands.

“If you’re going to allow students to walk up and get out of class without penalty then you have to allow any group of students that wants to protest,” she said, according to CBS 13.

It’s still not over. One student wants to see how another protest would pan out, so he’s planning a pro-life protest.

The organizer of the planned pro-life walkout, Brandon Gillespie, said the event was meant “to honor all the lives of aborted babies pretty much. All the millions of aborted babies every year.”

Gillespie said that he “would like to see if there really is a double standard and what will come of that.” He’s trying to gain support for his idea by using the hashtag #life.

He’s meeting with the principal today. It’ll be interesting to see what happens. Will they treat this protest the same?

h/t The Blaze