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This campaign, which is taking place in several countries, has to be one of the most idiotic I've seen recently.

Stay in school, study hard, make a difference.

You won't achieve anything by hurting yourself and your parents who pay for your education.

> Additionally, campaigners want the curriculum reformed to address climate change as an educational priority, alongside a request to include youth voices in policy-making and lower the voting age to 16.

This is one way to make a difference. And a few days won't really hurt them in any meaningful way.

Children in some countries still have no access to education, and here some people are in awe that children skip school for nothing.

This is a bad joke.

If they want to be taken seriously they should protest outside school hours, that'd show their grit and motivation, instead of wasting the good fortune they have to be in school in the first place.

Those other children are irrelevant here. It's a "finish your dinner, the are children starving in Africa" type non sequitur.

If they went outside of school hours, they could be easily ignored. Now we're taking about them, because they did something more.

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