Seriously I think the teacher put them up to this, if I had skipped out an event like this in school I would have been punished and made to do make up assignments. This wasnt a voluntary vacation, you bounce on a field trip your doing Ferris Buellers day off/skipping school.


8th grade history is not were the politics comes in, I didnt get that till at least 3 years later, so of course I doubt the legitamacy of the 'protest.' Before someone even goes there, I would think the same thing if it was Obama. I personally don't like Paul Ryan at all, he is everything about the GOP that made me leave the party years ago, but it doesn't matter if your a 13/14 year old kid on a field trip, you stay there and talk, and have a great story to tell your kids later. This is just rude.


And I know a certain segment will say this is thier 'right' because they support the move, but it isn't. If kids had the right to skip school there wouldn't be truancy officers.

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