Local high school kids walked out of class recently to protest Trumps election. Local paper was happy to see them exercising their 1st Amendment rights. I'm thinking minors don't legally have rights. Their rights come thru their parents. However, if they do have the same rights as adults, then they also have a 2nd amendment right. School district bans knives, like pocket knives. 5 day suspension if they get caught with a knife, even a little pocket knife.
What say our Tman legal scholars?

It's been long decided in the courts. Schools may legally punish students for walking out of class. They may not discipline students more harshly because they are participating in a political protest.

Liberal teachers probably told the students to walk out. They should be fired and black listed.

Keith

If they are citizen's of the US they have the same rights as anyone in my opinion. The second amendment as well as other part of the constitution will always be contentious. I remember being drafted at 18 but could not vote and that got changed during the Vietnam era.

“Truancy is any intentional, unjustified, unauthorized, or illegal absence from compulsory education. It is a deliberate absence by a student's own free will and usually does not refer to legitimate excused absences, such as ones related to medical conditions. Truancy is usually explicitly defined in the school's handbook of policies and procedures. Attending school but not going to class is called internal truancy. Some children whose parents claim to homeschool have also been found truant in the United States.[1][2]
In many countries, truancy is criminalized by law as either a criminal or a civil offense, and allows to prosecute truant students (under the age of 18), their parents, or both. Some countries, like Canada or Australia, reserve fines for truant minors and permit to detain (but not arrest) them while skipping school. In Russia, Germany and some parts of the U.S. police officers have power to even handcuff and arrest truant under-18s on streets during the school hours. Strict measures against truancy are usually motivated by compulsory education gaps among children and underage crime surge in big cities.”

Everyone has 1st amendment rights but those rights also come with consequences. Examples: walk out of my class you get a F. Take a knee during the anthem on my football team you’re on the bench.

Yeah I remember getting back and having to get a hunters safety card to hunt Go figure! As remember growing up and there were actually truancy officers that would deal with children absent and possibly parents farm and ranch kids were somewhat exempt.

Minors have very limited rights about medical decisions is all.

Is that the truth White17.

I would have never walked out of class in high school. The fear of going home to the consequences that would await!!!
It was called parenting.!!!!!

Rally comes down to how the school handles it. Our school would have called skipping school, would have consequences.

LOL, our school district voted 88% Trump, so no walk out on this topic.

I used to skip school without a cause. Why ? Just because !

Truth be told, most of those kids probably walked out just to be walking out of school. Doesn't much matter what the protest is about, it's an excuse to get out of school for awhile.

Rights have consequences. The consequences just can't come from the government.

LOL unless you're in front of God on judgement day MOST consequences come from the Gov.

If the kid ovet18 I would think if under no.

It's complicated by age, but, yes, they have rights.

Some can be exercised by the child. Others by the parent/guardian. Others are fuzzy.

Of course they have rights. They also have responsibilities, like attending class, at least up to a certain age. Personally, I hated school. It was a dictatorship. That was never enough excuse skipping class, though.

Seems to be a lot of opinions here. Any links to actual law?

No law covers it all. But the Bill of rights amendment to our Constitution is a good start. People are born with rights. and pick up a few more on certain birthdays.