OPINION:
I had a challenging time trying to read the numerous editorials discussing the staged student protests that took place all across Virginia last month in opposition to proposed transgender protocols (“Nearly 100 Virginia schools hold walkouts over revised transgender student policies,” Web, Sept. 27).
Now, before I’m lynched by any of the umpteen protesters as being homophobic, I must say the reason behind my difficulty reading those editorials wasn’t the transgender issue. It was that the pieces brought back memories of those dinosauric days of 1969, when I was a student at Spotsylvania Senior High School. That year a student protest was extinguished before its ignited fire could even take off.
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I can’t recall why we wanted to take a stand or what the situation was, but I do remember clearly that the protest was quickly deflated — by the administration’s warnings of expulsions.
That’s why I was all thumbs when reading those protest editorials. Are there no rules at these schools?
Although not supportive of school walkouts, I had no problems with the assemblage of the kaleidoscopic multitudes.
RICK KNIGHT
Henrico, Virginia
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