‘School Is the Best Place’: Students Urged to Avoid Pro-Palestinian Rally in Melbourne

Published on November 22, 2023

School students have been urged to stay in the classroom ahead of a School Strike for Palestine planned on Nov. 23. Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan has advised school is the best place for students to learn about global events and understand today’s world. The School Students for Palestine walk out of class is planned at lunch time, 1:30 p.m. on the steps of Flinders Street Station, Melbourne. Ms. Allan highlighted school is the place for respectful engagement with other community members. “If you are wanting to learn about global events, if you are wanting to understand the world we are living in, and some of the turmoil that we are seeing in the world, then school is the best place to get that learning and understanding of how to have respectful engagement with others in our community,” Ms. Allan said on Network 10. ...