Parents should be ashamed over Luna protest

Dear editor:

On Feb. 28 many students took to the streets to protest against Luna's Plan at 10 a.m. in the cold morning air.

Each student was unaware of what consequences they'd have to pay for only doing what they felt was right, taking actions in ways that we as a society have been guiding these students to do for many years. Two good examples to use are Martin Luther King Jr. and Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. A more recent example is our protesting high gas prices.

Yet all that can be said is "Where are the teachers on this? PARENTS?"

"This is just an example of the students doing what the teachers are telling them," and my favorite one so far: "So what happened to the funding that was already given that was suppose to go for teaching those children during that time period."

Why are we more concerned about these things rather than what the protesting is representing?

I just have to ask bluntly, have we really gone about losing our minds? Are we that naive? Is money more important than actually listening to these students?

We are only borrowing time on this planet from our children, shouldn't we pay more attention towards what they want?

Our actions judges the future and right now our future's standing in front of us holding protesting signs against Luna's Plan.

Another thing that is interesting to know is the fact that these students congregated over Facebook and Twitter to construct this protest. Assembling through unity to make their voice heard and all many of us are doing is tossing them aside like a piece of candy bar wrapping paper on the streets.

If anything, the educational system of this community is teaching us is that it is not failing us but actually evolving in a manner that is unrecognizable by comparison to our high school years, but a computer will never be able to replace a classroom.

Every student is only eager to put each of our lessons taught to them into action.

So to sum everything up, it's not the students who need to be ashamed, but us, instead, because clearly it is the students who are listening as we neglect them.

Brad Gray