High school?

[Peaceful Anarchy]

Is it possible, with extensive research and a coherent and intriguing topic idea, for someone under 18 to host a teach in? Or organize one for that matter?

[sheryl]

Go for it. I have not been involved in any of the Teach ins so I do not know the protocal for making this happen. Hopefully someone else will step in here and help you with a little direction. Meanwhile I'll see if I can come up with any relevant info for you to help facilitate your plan.

To directly answer your question, I don't think that age is a factor as long as you bring something of interest!

[mejones]

An Occupy High School thread you might be interested in: http://occupychi.org/phpbbforumforum/viewtop ... =16&t=1118

If nothing else, PM Ava (ztohovey), Babur (Realer) and Ray Mathis to invite them to your teach in. I find that a few onlookers interest passerbys and soon there is a crowd.

Best of luck,
Jim

[ztohovey]

Hi,
This is Ava (ztohovey). I've put together a website for more cohesive high school organization. It's main point, right now, is to get high schoolers talking and sign a general letter of protest (SIGN THE LETTER), also open to parents/guardians and teachers. I want the site to be a starting point: there's a section where students can link any social network page, blog, or website they create for their high school to this main site, a place for discussion about issues specific to high schoolers (which I'm still working on, but it's meant to be fluid and everything is a creation of collective input), and an opportunity to share posters to put up at school.

Here's the site: http://occupyhighschool.com/

I hope it helps. I feel that it will facilitate more youth involvement and bring Occupy to schools around the country. Please take a look, spread the word, and join in by leaving a comment. I'm emailing a link to other education-related Occupy sites, like OccupyEducation (everything's in the LINKS section).

Thanks,
Ava

[marymcmahon@clear.net]

Ava, your site is fantastic!
Amazing, everyone needs to go see it AND Social Media Ben shout give it a shout out!

[Peaceful Anarchy]

Absolutely LOVE the site, Ava! It's fantastic!

[ztohovey]

The “National Day of Action” announced by Occupy Education is coming up fast. Too fast.

High school Occupy movements all over the country are atomized and isolated. That’s okay, even good, but only to a point: Students and teachers need to be able to voice the concerns of their individual schools and school systems, but in front of a larger backdrop. Right now, that backdrop is nowhere to be seen. We must work together if we work at all.

All of us at the OccupyChicago HS Outreach hope that once occupyhighschool.com becomes searchable by major engines like google and bing, the site can act as a kind of index of HS occupations all over the country. Until then, schools need to do some serious brainstorming: Many of us are unable to stage successful walk-outs like Garfield High in Seattle this November, for a score of reasons, safety among them. But this should not prevent us from voicing our discontent. We must have a unified front before we jump to act: The ability to maintain an informed, allied, and cooperative grounding was (and is) partly what made Chile’s student revolts so successful.

The March 1 date for "Action" doesn't gel with OWS's plans for the spring (especially Occupy Chicago, since the NATO and G8 Summits are being held in that city in May)--should it be pushed back?

[ztohovey]

If anything, March 1 (M1) will be a good starting point for further school actions. But right now, there is no means of inter-school communication, and I can't find any plans for Chicago's high schools for March 1. Anything at this level needs heavy planning to be pulled off.
I've received an email from Occupy Education's planning group regarding a national conference call that will be taking place on Feb 5, this Sunday.
I've posted a new thread about it--OccupyChi needs to be on that call.
Link to the thread:
http://occupychi.org/phpbbforumforum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=2345

Also you can email me at ztohovey@gmail.com