MASON CITY – The Mason City High School Student Activist Group has organized an event to stand in solidarity with the student victims of gun violence.
This event will be held Friday, April 20, 2018, at the Mason City High School Gym during “Mohawk Pride Time”. The Student Activist Group is partnering with the Mason City High School Student Senate to sponsor a listening post and panel discussion on safety.
Student participants will meet at the front entrance of the high school at 12:30 p.m. and walk outside, weather permitting, to the gym. A student-led question and answer listening post and panel discussion is planned to provide students with an opportunity to voice their concerns, questions, and statements regarding the safety of our school and how they can make a difference. Several local and state representatives will be present to answer questions. Those representatives scheduled to participate are:
State Senator Amanda Ragan
State Representative Sharon Steckman
Mason City Mayor Bill Schickel
Mason City Chief of Police Jeff Brinkley
Mason City Superintendent of Schools Dave Versteeg
This student led activity is optional for students. Students not participating will report to Mohawk Pride Time and period 5 as normal. An invitation was sent to parents with details of the event including an explanation of the purpose of the event.
Parents are welcome to attend as listeners and are required to RSVP to the high school office.
Hitler approved.
Or how about that stupid active shooter training that states that it’s not safe to protect your business with a gun. It’s better to hide and then rush the shooter as a last resort unarmed !!!! Nice f n advice if you want to die. As the cops who spread this garbage protect themselves, place of business and homes with GUNS !! How can they with any moral clarity preach that shit !!!
Brainwashed ??? Whst an idiot !! What do you call a bunch of kids who are led around by the liberal media and the DNC. What do they say if your not liberal by the age of 20 you have no heart. If you are not conservative by the age of 40 you have no BRAIN !!
When being political correct trumps actually going to school, we are in a sad place as a country. Next will be a walk out on knifes, the pitchforks, then toothpicks.
I heard James Comey wanted to make it but needed to spend some time keeping himself out of prison.
wow no Stormy Weathers, I’m surprised!
5 liberals that need to be voted out.
The chief of police is not an elected position nor is the superintendent of schools. Read something that isn’t fake news and you might learn something.
You should stay off this site until you have the report done and ready to submit it to all NIT readers. You have until tomorrow, and then you will get a failing grade.
Whatever you say, teach!
Fact Pharmaceuticals/witchcraft and sorcery is attributed to more deaths yearly than staged wars combined, yet no one is demanding big pharma/http://www.dictionary.com/browse/allopathic to be shut down why because the same group owns both and everything else on this earth except your soul, the first thing dictators do is take peoples ability to defend themselves away, apparently this group is in cupcake land and not aware of that blaring fact. The “brainwashed” on display.
It’s great how they brought in all those Democrat politicians. That will certainly help.
The democrats could make it but the republicans are too busy kissing NRA ass.
…..And lining their pockets with NRA money.
And this is what the Republican Party has come to, being proud and gloating about using other human beings as target practice because you disagree with their political views.
America is becoming a Third World country because of Republicans like you.
Only a Dumb Ass like you has to worry.
Well what do you know. My first post was deleted, unlike bodacious I had a issue with my tax money being used being used on a partisan protest like taking away one of our constitutional rights. So, I contacted someone who knows what is happening. I was told that a group of students had asked to walk out in support of gun control. They were told they could do it only if it was voluntary and peaceful. Then when they came back in they would hold a seminar with speakers from both sides of the issue telling their side. They will use this as a teaching experience to educate the kids in the process. As long as the keep it fair and balanced I do not have a problem with it. Of course liberals won’t like it because both sides will be represented.
demo/liberals/illuminati’s have nothing better to do
Meanwhile: President Trump opens/expands ethanol trade with Japan and secures the China will pay tariffs just like they charge us.
But you liberal -dumbocrats go to your walk out, you walked out on the American people long ago.
hahaha,
Trump loves to have brainwashed dumb asses just like you in his camp.
Thanks for the laugh, I need that today.
You want a daily laugh, look in the mirror, you worthless loser.
Hahaha
I think I’ll just keep coming here for my daily laugh! You brainwashed, first grade educated, Trump supporters are way way funnier than my goofy looks. Just keep posting your BS and proving to the world how brainwashed and uneducated you really are… hahahaha
All you can come back with is name calling? Easy to see who the uneducated one is!
I am sure glad the extra money the school system just took from me goes for great events like this
How is any money being spent on this? Even if it would, your 59 cents doesn’t buy much.
It was the political correct shit that killed those kids in Florida. Obahma not wanting any kid to be referred for criminal charges killed those kids. The sheriff got funding for reducing crime. It’s easy to reduce crime when you never charge anybody with a crime. That’s the liberal way. Look it works !!
WTF are you rambling about you sick bastard. Wounder how you would think after being shot at with a AR-15?
He’s right and you are wrong, again.
O.K. enough B.S. If you want to know the answer to all this all you have to do is ask someone who knows and they will explain it to you. I took the time to ask a board member why my tax money was being used for something like this. Bodacious doesn’t know crap as usual. However, the school is using this as a teaching experience. The walkout was proposed by some students (not the school) They will be allowed to walk out (only if they want to). When they return to school there will be speakers both for against gun control. They will all have a opportunity to speak so the kids get both sides of the issue. It will be a good experience for them. The school is not taking sides in the issue.
How is your tax money being used for this? What expenses are there?
You right wing wackos are the only ones on this site who delete things. The gang of 5 is notorious for that and you are a card carrying member.
And you know that how? more fake BS from the teacher.
And, that from a Nut Job Liberal.
How would you like to get hit in the head with a Louisville Slugger? I’d pay to see that!
The problem with this is that the adults need to be in charge. We need to harden the schools protect the kids quit the stupid political correct shit that will just get more kids killed.
Look at me I’m important !! Guns are bad violence is bad look at me I’m important !! Now do what we said when someone has a gun in the school hide until you get shot in the back.
Thanks to all the gun-rights lovers there are now more firearms everywhere than ever before to fall into the hands of crazies nationwide.
We will do our best to keep them away from crazies like you.
That all started with Obama. Besides, the “gun-rights lovers” as you call them, are not running out and buying guns to give away to the crazies nationwide. Unless you have verified proof of what you say, try not to spread fake news. That’s already being done by real news outlets.
Blame it on Obama? Good Allen. Isn’t it time for you to start deleting comments?
I’ll be right behind you! Besides, I don’t have the power to delete comments, I don’t own this site. If I did have the power, there would be several posters on this site that would never be heard.
Thanks boduechious for running your pie hole again.
Their idea is good, but they should work harder on things they can control, like.
◦32.8% of high school students nationwide have texted or e-mailed while driving.
◦12% of distracted drivers involved in fatal car accidents were teens ages 15 to 19.
◦Talking on a cell phone can double the likelihood of an accident and can slow a young driver’s reaction time to that of a 70-year-old.
◦Drivers under the age of 20 make up the largest percentage of distracted drivers.
◦56% of teens admit to talking on cell phones while driving.
◦13% of teens admit to texting while driving.
◦34% of teens age 16 and 17 admit that they send and respond to text messages while driving.
◦48% of kids ages 12 to 17 report being in a car when the driver was texting
And,
◦About 1/4 of fatal teen car accidents involve underage drinking and driving. (MADD)
◦About 5.8% of 16- and 17-year-olds and 15.1% of 18- to 20-year-olds reported driving under the influence of alcohol in the past year. (MADD)
◦About 8.2% of high school students reported driving a car or other vehicle one or more times when they had been drinking alcohol.
◦13.5% of 12th graders reported driving after drinking.
◦Kids who start drinking young are 7x more likely to be in an alcohol-related crash. (MADD)
◦33% of the young drivers ages 15 to 20 who were killed in crashes had a BAC of .01 or higher and 28% had a BAC of .08 or higher (the legal limit for drivers over age 21).
◦Nearly 60% of young drivers involved in fatal drinking and driving crashes didn’t use a seat belt.
◦70 % of young drivers who died in underage drinking and driving accidents didn’t use a seat belt.
◦27% of the young male drivers involved in fatal crashes had been drinking at the time of the crash, compared with 15% of the young female drivers involved in fatal crashes
It looks like they need to take action against themselves and not worry about the occasional Democrat with a gun.
It would seem that way. Besides the little noise that they do make won’t be heard by anybody a block away. It’s just a feel good thing, and there’s nothing wrong with feeling good. Maybe that’s why they text or use alcohol while driving.
I applaud the the effort, let’s talk about texting and driving when 11 young adults are killed everyday!! Advocate about restricting their phone use, something they could truly control, but doubt they would want too. Can’t even leave them in the locker during school hours. Start there
If they wanted to be proactive it would be titled how to keep our schools safe and solutions to do that and wanting input.
Perhaps that will be part of their panel discussion or listening post. The negativity that you all exhibit is amazing.
Make sure that you go to the event, take notes, then come back and report what was said. Make it interesting, and above all, report the truth. Remember, you will be evaluated on your communication and comprehension skills and your ability to report the truth in an unbiased report.
There’s one word in your reply to Bodacious that would ensure she would receive a failing grade. “Unbiased”.
It’s America they can express themselves stupidly all they want !!
Did any of you read the article? There was nothing mentioned about taking your guns away. It is an open event so those students can express their views regardless of which side they favor. These kids said they want to stand with “student victims of gun violence”. They can’t do that in your America? Then your America isn’t this America and you should move. It is nice to see that there are some adults in MC who want to do more than just bitch about everything. Kudos to our legislators, school officials and chief of police.
If our government officials and lawmakers cared about their citizens, then they would make gun violence ILLEGAL!
Pull your head out, gun violence IS illegal!
Ha, ha, then why do liberals continue to violate the law?
So glad we are not on the same team. I would not want to ever be associated with you!!
Obviously they can’t understand it.
HOGG wanabeeees !
I doubt that they will ever be that famous? Maybe KIMT Rochester will show up, maybe.
Teaching kids to be sheep
The politically correct term is called, Brain Washing.
And teachers do it well.
You are a real fu*king dumbass
Mike F. again!
If I was an elected official I would be embarrassed participating.
I’m against gun violence!!! No shit !! So stupid !! Kinda like saying I’m against child abuse !! Just after tax payer money or taking rights away. All feel good no solutions…. idiots
You are Bath Tissue
It is pretty sad that these High school Teenagers are more mature the most of the Adults that commented on this story.
Why don’t these self proclaimed children of democraps- demonstrate for opoids (pain killers) drug overdoses that have killed a 1000 times more people INCLUDING their own generation of government indoctrinated zombies.
A very, very good question.