Arizona Fights Back!

[Danno]

Shouldn't school districts be teaching kids to obey the laws ?????


At Highland Park High School, officials are canceling a girls' basketball team trip to Arizona to protest that state's new anti-immigration law.
A school official tells the Tribune that going to Arizona now -- after that state passed a harsh anti-immigration law -- "would not be aligned with our beliefs and values."
One parent tells ABC-7 that the girls on the team are very upset: "It was a big disappointment. They've been baking cookies to earn money for this and they were just very surprised. They just want to play basketball, that's all, these girls just want to play basketball."
Highland Park also draws students from the heavily Hispanic suburb of Highwood... and school officials said they had safety concerns as well about going to Arizona.

-- WLS reporter John Dempsey

You teach a 2 year old to obey rules, high schoolers already know that laws are to be obeyed. I don't agree with the cancellation but in my opinion a school should not try to teach young people to blindly and without question follow all laws. I'd like to see more in the way of teaching these people how to think for themselves and how to not be indoctrinated and brainwashed into thinking all laws are good laws and make sure they know their right to protest, and value of protest. The people should be the final check and balance not sheep. Also, if you don't want to obey the laws of some other state you don't have to... you just don't go there. If some state outlawed tobacco smoking and if I smoked tobacco there's a very good chance I wouldn't go to that state.