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.
wow no Stormy Weathers, I’m surprised!
5 liberals that need to be voted out.
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.
I am sure glad the extra money the school system just took from me goes for great events like this
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 !!
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.
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
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.
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!
HOGG wanabeeees !
Teaching kids to be sheep
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
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.