Lathrop High students in Fairbanks plan walk out over Trump election and ‘fascism’

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Some Lathrop High School students in Fairbanks will be standing in front of their school’s entryway on Wednesday. A protest has been called by the Sunrise Movement — a Native group — and Alaska Youth for Environmental Action to have students walk out of fifth-period class and stand against “fascism” and Trump.

“Walk out against Trump”, the flyer advertising the event reads. “Our generation won’t stand for fascism.”

Among the concerns the students have is funding for eduction. They also want access to healthcare and climate action, women’s rights, equality and love.

“Help us create a safe and loving community for those who are struggling at this time,” the group advertises.

Alaska Youth for Environmental Action is a program of the Alaska Center (for the Environment) that trains Alaska’s youth to be radical warriors for the “climate justice” movement.

Among the supporters of the Alaska Youth for Environmental Action is Rep. Genevieve Mina of Anchorage, who is on the board of the Alaska Center and who encouraged students to walk out of classes earlier this year to protest what she felt was a lack of adequate funding for schools.

Lathrop High School has a graduation rate of 73%, and students score just 30% on state reading proficiency tests and 16% in math proficiency.

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  1. ROFL, see what happens when history is no longer important in education! Send the brats back in time and see how fast they join the Hitler youth!

    • True.

      As Rush used to opine, “Young minds filled with mush.”

      You can bet in the background there are adult Marxists (i.e. “teachers”) behind this foolishness.

  2. This is why the public school system needs to be disbanded and buried.
    We need real teachers not these spoiled wanna be leftest impersonators.
    Get your kids out of the institutionalized school system for their own good and education that will amount to something instead of skipping school because who is elected president how dumb is that?

  3. Lathrop has always been the trash-heap, drug dealing school of Farbanks. It doesn’t look like West Valley (the good high school) is doing this. My question is why isn’ Alaska Center for the Environment getting charged with reckless endangerment and contributing to the delinquency of school children?

  4. Not a single school in Fairbanks has more than 50% of their kids that are at grade level for math, science, or reading. Not one. Yet, the FNSB is spenidng about $20,000.00 per kid, per year.

    When you are turning out ignoramuses you should expect them to act like this. They take no responsibility for their own failures.

  5. How out of touch. The economy is the #1 issue for voters as always. Next is the border. Climate change is somewhere way at the bottom. The establishment doesn’t have a clue or care about what the majority thinks.

  6. Well I don’t know what their attendance policy is, but this should be an unexcused absence and if disruptive on school grounds, result in suspensions. They are certainly free to hold rallys and protests on their own time but don’t waste the teachers time and taxpayers money by disrupting school. It’a real shame that they don’t even know the real facts or apparently what facism really is. Our schools are reaping what they sow.

  7. It would be so much more productive and positive for the kids if they would knock this crap off and just go back to teaching basics like math, reading, writing, accurate history…

    • That would mean the adults, aka teachers, would have to knock off their crap.
      This comes from their teachers, administrators, even Genevieve Mina of Anchorage would all have to KNOCK IT OFF!

  8. How foolish they are. They do not even know what fascism is, nor that they have fallen for lies by blindly adhering to the dark forces wanting to destroy and take over our country. Blinded by entitlement and dependence which is ultimately selfishness. Persuaded also by the lies of ‘victimhood’ and false justice. The PS system was seen as a vehicle for ‘social change’ over a century ago and has been used to that end too successfully in past decades.

  9. Based on the test scores in this article, I think the best thing for those students would be to return to class and read a little history about a country in Europe known as Germany and particularly the history of the 1930s If you really want to know about fascism. Nothing in the Trump administration Points to any Form of fascism.

    Our republic survived because we do have an educated electorate. We used our constitution as it was meant to be used to preserve our union. We used democracy to run our election and to select our representation. These students would be better off leaving their cell phones at home and paying attention to the lessons being taught. Further if they have such a low level of trust In our Constitutional system It would be hoove of them to study long and hard about the Constitution so that they can use it to their ends. With that being said , i’m pretty sure that after they study the Constitution for a while they will discover what an absolutely wonderful document it really is!

  10. They need Savanna Fletcher to guide them through these perilous time of Fascism.

    Maybe Fairbanks school district should repurpose the school buildings to indoctrination training camps for the purpose of recruiting their youth to become their new elected leaders via rigged choice voting and take everyone with them on their safe climate mission.

    Since the performance level of reading and math is low they must be very proficient in science to fully understand the disastrous effects of the climate crisis.

    They must take action NOW before it is too late and the natives are very “useful tools” since they got here first and they actually own the land we are squatting on according to the Anchorage ASSembly who rents the native’s land to the people who want to build a house on it.
    Now that they have had a native representative in DC who has lots of financial support from everywhere but Alaska the time is ripe to take action.

  11. Bynotsyf club
    Bite Your Nose Off to Spite Your Face club
    Granted , there is a “ teacher “ or teachers giving extra credit for liberal shenanigans

  12. What is even funnier to me is the number of people on both sides who do not know that Hitler was a socialist hence the National “Socialist” workers party “NAZI” of which they all belonged.

  13. ““Walk out against Trump”, the flyer advertising the event reads. “Our generation won’t stand for fascism.””

    I won’t stand for fascism, which is why I voted for Trump.

    Education these days isn’t what it used to be.

    • Right on. I have to applaud the courage of the young man (I assume he is a Lathrop student) who in the weeks before the election stood on the pedestrian bridge over Airport Way in front of Lathrop High waving at the motorists and proudly displaying his sign which read: “Live Better, Vote for Trump.”

  14. Clearly they’re not learning much in the classroom. Maybe the ones who do stay in class will, momentarily at least, have a chance for a learning session without disruption from the loudmouths and dunces. Except for those unfortunates whose “teachers” will be out screaming at the sky along with those they’re failing to educate.

  15. Just watch, take notes, and suspend them all.

    If they are grown up enough to disrupt school, they are grown up enough to not be there.

    Most of these kids have no idea what fascism actually is, and are probably hard pressed to find Alaska on a map.

  16. Go ahead and just drop out. Trump will be the President for the remainder of their HS experience, unless they are held back. See how you do economically.

  17. “Our generation won’t stand for fascism.”

    Their time would be better spent getting a real education, and discovering that the Left are the actual Fascists and Nazis…

  18. Dear Youth,

    Lathrop High School has had 4 years of love, women’s rights and equality with the Biden/Harris administration; did you feel more love in your school the last 4 years?

    Boys are allowed in girl’s bathrooms: is this what you call “women’s rights” and equality?

    Health care does not belong in the schools; climate change is an natural organic process of evolution.

    Life is about change, about adapting to the changes around you. At your age you haven’t experienced enough life to compare Trump to Biden. Wait a few years, then compare the differences yourself, not through someone else’s ideas, beliefs or fears.

    The education system in Alaska, and the Nation is broken. The education system is teaching you to hate any kind of change.

    Wokeism is communism in sheep’s clothing. Marxism, Socialism, Fascism, Nazism and Communism are under the umbrella of “Collectivism”. Our spiritual war is Collectivism vs Individualism.

    I’m hopeful a Trump administration can reverse the creeping red wave of collectivism in our education system.

  19. “Lathrop High School has a graduation rate of 73%, and students score just 30% on state reading proficiency tests and 16% in math proficiency.”

    Perhaps the students should be protesting the fascist indoctrination they are receiving that results in well below MINIMUM standards. When indoctrination centers refuse to teach our children BASIC knowledge required to survive, let alone thrive in today’s world, when do we stop sending and funding our children’s indoctrination?

  20. They are the Hitler youth -I wonder when they’ll start turning on their “ friends “ when their friends say they like President Trump.
    Little Leftist Doom Goblins can go stand out in the cold on their immoral high ground.
    Isn’t it great that we elected a President that protects our rights to protest?

  21. “students score just 30% on state reading proficiency tests and 16% in math proficiency.”

    That ladies and gentlemen says it all! When you can not read well enough to comprehend and math eludes you, you are rife for manipulation. Useful fools!

    So they are concerned about education funding, which is primarily a state responsiblity. Since the vast majority of education funding is derived from oil revenue, their call for climate action seems to run counter to that goal.

    They want equality and LOVE???? I remember when the flower children just wanted “love”….(well mostly they wanted to get high and have sex, if one is being honest)

    Let’s see what the teachers and the school administration do.

  22. Who funds this organization by the way? Are they affiliated with the Sunrise Movement? Considering Lathrop’s academic standing it makes me wonder where these junior activists stand and just have to laugh at their predictable list of what they stand for.

  23. Someone needs to teach these kids that the election is over. Time to get together for the betterment for he country. Even Biden said “we can’t just like America when we win.”

  24. Morons. TDS is real amongst these misguided youth. Used to be called an “unexcused absence” when we didn’t show up for school and there were enforced truancy laws. Oh well, party on Garth.

  25. The sunrise movement is dangerous. And Alaska would do well in looking into the dark money being dumped into this fascist subversion group and their long term agenda. They are a depopulation advocating group using transgenger ideologies to sterilize a generation for climate agenda goals. Get on this Alaska and root them out. This is how red states flip purple and blue is by allowing these subversive groups to operate in your state, and schools. This group will end up resorting to eco terrorism and violence if allowed to continue their agenda. Alaska you have been warned. Do your research and kick this NGO out now before it’s too late.

  26. So which is it, my Fellow Americans: Fascism of Facism?

    I’m guessing the kid who wrote this poster has been subjected to the same education system as the person who scrawled “American Tailban” on my vehicle in the Costco parking lot this summer, in response to some rational (no need to use the word “conservative”) bumper stickers.

    • Greg,

      Does that count for Hitler Youth as well? It’s not always important for the young children (high school students aren’t young adults) 5o get involved. In fact sometimes it’s good that young children are not involved, like when they are being used by misguided adults to do their political bidding…like the aforementioned Hitler Youth.

      • Yes Steve. Even after WW2, the Nazi party had a candidate run fir president as did the KKK. Even though we didn’t like it, it was important for Democracy and to show the rest of the world we weren’t hypocrites. During the Civil War, kids younger than these served. Yes, they can form an opinion of their own.

    • Kamala’s final speech after losing her failed election bid has energized youth to fight fight fight.
      A very impressive insightful speech for the youth to fight that she used many times over the same as she used for the rioters in 2020 who were burning looting (and some were shot in the head) telling them not to stop until they got what they wanted.
      A burned up inner city with massive losses for the downtown area businesses. Car lots with every single vehicle burned to the ground. That was Kamala’s plan for the “summer of love”.

    • Then get involved, become educated, motivated, and be the best you can be. Not the best that someone else wants you to be! Become a leader, in all that is good. Don’t live a life of being a follower and not live a life.

  27. Equality and love? Is that why Trump suffered two assassination attempts? Trump’s inauguration will be in January, let them walk out then. Perfect time to be outside in Fairbanks.

  28. Wow! A sad testament to how poorly educated our children have become. Modern day Dems are the personification of fascism. They support censorship of opposing viewpoints, they are constantly attacking the right to free speech, they have used the Dept of Justice to target political opponents, they use foreign wars to personally profit themselves and their donors to the detriment of their constituents. They are inextricably joined at the hip with Wall Street and multi-national corporations and banks and act on their behalf and not the public good which is the classic definition of fascism. Obviously, these students are not being taught critical thinking skills.

  29. These children need to be told to get BACK to class and stop this nonsense.
    None of them could fight their way out of a paper bag.
    Principals need to stand together and tell them NO. It’s a distraction in a high school. Grow up kids! They are the fascists at this point and they don’t even know it!

  30. It’s not as if they’re learning anything when they’re in class; give them their diplomas now. There will always be an underclass, so why bust the budget trying to raise the education standards here on the frontier? So if the dummies learn just enough to read the funnies, consider them a success! Give ’em a pat on the back, and tell them, “Well done!”

  31. If the school day is being disrupted,then the administration needs to intervene. This is not helping improve their proficiency rather than wasting their learning opportunity. Rep Genevieve Mina should face consequences for her involvement. I guess this explains why TJ rural native voters voted for trump! Because they lost all faith and hope in Biden, Harris and Deb Halland, because their lives are so much better 4 years later

  32. Odds are, not a single student will be punished for skipping class that day. Which means free day off. So a bunch of kids that couldn’t care less will walk out in protest.
    .
    Makes it look like a handful of activists students actually represent a whole generation.

  33. This is right out of the playbook by the teacher’s union. Expect the little boy mayor, Junior Hopkins, to be right alongside the brainwashed kiddies. He fits in better with juvies than adults.

  34. If ever there was a sign that there’s something wrong in education in Alaska, this is it. What they are being taught at Lathrop is evident here. I’d expected this kind of behavior from West Valley. The principal should mark them absent for the entire day after locking the doors and preventing the students from re-entering the facility. The curriculum for the next week should be civics, which is obviously not being taught, or at least taught correctly. And the true fascists who are teaching those students this drivel should be reprimanded or replaced.

  35. I cannot recall a Must Read Alaska column that has had such excellent reader feedback.😄 Thank you Suzanne for reporting the graduation vs test scores of this abysmal taxpayer funded school. I hope President Trump makes Charlie Kirk the head of his Dept.Of Education.

  36. I have no problem with students staging a peaceful protest, as long as it was their own idea. I DO have a problem with the NEA brainwashing students and using them to further their own social or political agenda. I can’t help but wonder how it would go over if a group of students held a demonstration sponsored by Moms For Liberty or another conservative organization.

  37. Not sure what educational opportunity that Fifth Period normally brings to these ‘yutes’, but they should be marked absent from Fifth Period and suspended if this gathering creates a disturbance to others trying to learn something. Perhaps as a class project each student should explain in an essay what fascism is and how the duly elected president meets that definition. That usually causes a few stutters and stammers among youthful political firebrands because that would require some original analytical thinking and expression.

  38. Should be fun to watch the attorney general call this mob, Sunrise Movement and Alaska Youth for Environmental Action to account for contributing to the delinquency and truancy (AS 14.30.010. Attendance Compulsory) of minors.
    .
    Alaska’s AG might even ask the IRS to audit this mob, Sunrise Movement, Alaska Youth for Environmental Action, and their PAC’s, see if what they’re doing, especially with their political action committees, complies with federal tax law.
    .
    Good, plain language explanation shows up at ‘https://www.crowe.com/insights/tax-news-highlights/relationship-between-section-501c3-taxpayer-pac-prohibited.
    .
    Why bother? Legal action and IRS audits against this mob might be just what it takes to solve the problem in a way that prevents it coming back …just like any other social disease.

  39. No wonder their reading proficiency is so low. Their time would be better spent learning what “fascism” means & then using critical thinking skills to compare & contrast the current administration with Trump’s. Trump isn’t perfect but the future is bright with an incredibly diverse team- some of whom care a lot more about people & the environment than Biden or Harris (aka Obama) – as shown time & again by their disdain for the peasants & their policies that are killing them.

  40. When I was in HS here in the 70’s then trade school after that, if you were late or walked out of class, the teacher would do a snap test for 50% of your grade.
    Doubt the teachers anymore would do that, most of them couldn’t spell their own name or stand up amy values.
    Public education is socialism.
    Fail every one who walks out, fire the so called teachers.

  41. Genevieve Mina ROFL there’s a reason why her social media is so heavy on optics. Look for a post last year saying Fat Bear Week is the only October election that matters in Alaska.

  42. Lotta comments here; I skimmed thru them…quickly. It breaks my heart to see these ‘young skulls full of mush’ embrace idiot ideology. My alma mater. Phuche! Never would have happened in the seventies. I don’t know what our graduation rate was back then — likely in the high 90%s. What a travesty.

    😢😢😢😢

  43. Cap Lathrop would be horrified to know such a high school is named after him. As for these young idiots, let them walk. Who really cares, but the left, anyway? I’m sure there are plenty of level-headed students who will stay put and laugh as they leave. Or maybe all the level-headed ones are being home schooled…?

  44. Let’s hope the Trump administration eliminates the federal Department of Education (among dozens of other departments).

    We must institute vouchers available to all Alaska youth to attend private and parochial schools.

    There is nothing “environmental” about any of these groups, and they prioritize working with or through sham “Native” organizations to add legitimacy to their fraud.

    I would encourage parents of current Lathrop High students to encourage their children to prepare for and call out their peers for debate involved in this propaganda.

    Use this as an opportunity to humiliate these youth being exploited by sick special interests. In fact, it’s an opportunity for cogent students to get right back in their face, man to man, and cogently overwhelm their ignorance with facts.

    Turn this pseudo Marxist tactic into a learning experience. Lord knows, our youth needs every opportunity and tool to survive the crappy legacy we are leaving them.

  45. Elevate to 30,000 feet. Alaska needs its own Conservative millionaire to combat the Act Blue money laundering that’s pouring into the state. There’s an agenda, a long game and it’s not local. We have oil, only 3 Electoral votes, 730,000 population, and a Republican majority. We need to ask ourselves why all the Liberal Marxist Left political gaming and focus here?

  46. Dissent and protest was taught
    In my high school as a civil liberty
    As was a spirited debate class !
    A class which required absorbing both points of view .
    If I were teaching that class I would let the walk out complete it’s cycle and then in class , take the opportunity to require students to write essay on the election protest of January 6th

  47. They can’t even spell fascism.. I guess not only do they need a lesson in history, but also spelling and literature.

    Whatever happened to debate class? The education system is falling apart and people are getting therapy rather than having conversations to unify as community through differences in opinions.

  48. There would have been consequences by my father if I participated. Parents are the first teachers and instill values. Everyone talks parents rights. What about parents being parents and taking responsibility for their child’s actions.

    • Way to go kids. Ignore all these hateful comments. Standing up for your beliefs is a proud AMERICAN DEMOCRATIC tradition and it’s no surprise that these fascist wannabes are offended. I guarantee the kids who are organizing this are the high performing high scoring students in the school. Those who call for dismantling education, you are so misguided.

      • Right on Amanda(sarc)!
        Now please tell us your view on the proud American tradition of protest on January 6?……

        Your own immaturity is clearly displayed by bemoaning “hateful” comments, while calling those, who disagree with you “fascists”. You forget the one bedrock tradition of this country: DEBATE. The place where opposing opinions come together to find common ground and understanding of all parties. It is normally done with the understanding respect, that we are all Americans and want what is best for the country. You clearly do not seem to share that sentiment.
        As for “consolidating power under one person” I would respectfully point to the 80+ executive orders over the last 4 years which directly targeted Alaska to subvert existing laws passed by congress and the “reinterpretation of Title IX”, just to name a few.

        I find that most teenagers do not have strong believes of their own yet. Most emulate the views of their favorite teacher, celebrity or other individual and protesting is a way to assert their individuality as an almost adult. I certainly support their right to protest, to stand at the street corner and wave signs, but I do not condone this action during school hours. Walking out of school spits on the taxpayers, who support their education (such as it is) and sets a bad precedence in their minds, that it is okay to do as you please without consequences. Real life doesn’t work that way.

        So by all means protest AFTER school on your own time not mine!

  49. Were the doors behind them locked when they walked out?
    Suspend all who walked out for disrupting the school day.
    If teachers encourage or promote this protest they too need to be suspended

  50. That is not a protest. It is placarding. It is not even political speech. A protest is a written complaint with a cover letter of notice to cure written to meet Federal courthouse Rules of Evidence. The complaint answers who, when, where, what why citing correct law that applies following due process. The first process due to the protestor is to deliver a notice to cure and to preserve treble damages inform law enforcement of the usurpation. Has this been done? If not no one is protesting. They are wasting time which is apparently all they want to do.

  51. Your instructors would be teaching you something if they taught you that. They have not that this ever. Therefore we do not have a protest process that works. We found this out in “Covid”. People had livelihoods removed, freedom of economic association and other rights and liberties impinged. adults did not know what to do. in Alaska there may not be a viable protest written complaint process available to anyone. When that happens we have lost our guaranteed capitalistic confederate form or shape of government. When that happens ultimately the Secret Service and the Executive in the Whitehouse are empowered to retrieve it for the USA. President Donald Trump would actually repair the structural deficits to return your liberties. The Democrats have shown they will not secure the US Constitution. Fourth Graders in the US knew this and how to do it in the 1800,’s Now you believe quietly holding a placard is the only process available to you. It is not the process and if you believe it is it may be a sign you are incompletely educated and the guaranteed republic form of government is at risk

  52. Just saw a report with photos from KUAC.
    According to the report about 30 students walked out. Some of the signs in the photos look homemade others professionally printed. Lots of big buzzwords in the quotes like misogyny, homophobia and transphobia as well as claims of policies solely based on “hate” all ascribed to our next president.
    It looked in essence as a LGBT/trans rally (with a minor in abortion) as most of the signage seen in the photos supported LGBT/trans causes. One young man to his credit seemed to have an actual grievance with a sign that declared “Teens against Tariffs”.
    The disturbing quote is at the end of the article when the speakers plead with all assembled to “not end it all” over this but to survive. It appears that this group of teens is in serious need of a mental health intervention and I fear for their future. Abusing the emotional fragility of the teen psyche, should be a crime.

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