So, when tens of thousands of schoolchildren walked out of class
all over America on Wednesday, they weren’t merely acting in a brave
and proud tradition. (Emma Gonzalez, the firebrand from Marjory Stoneman
Douglas High School, even cited Tinker in her remarkable
address in the wake of the massacre in Parkland, Florida.) Depending on
how rigid their principals and school boards are, they also were taking a
considerable chance.
That they walked anyway
should be a warning to petty dictators all over a country that has too
damn many of them running school boards, city councils, high schools,
manufacturing plants, and corporate offices. And there’s one running the
executive branch of the United States government, now that I think of
it.
