How did students ever manage before this? WaPo has more here

It's an idea of stellar stupidity, given that it overwhelmingly encourages students to become teenage leftists, embracing leftist causes. Problem one: Kids should be in school. You can't learn in school if what you're doing is protesting.

Virginia's public schools, in fact, rank about three in the nation, and Fairfax's rank at the top of Virginia's, so what we are seeing is a leftist district squandering the area's advantage, imagining that that advantage will always be there, same way leftists blow fortunes left for them by others.

It's also a First Amendment issue. Students are required to submit forms stating their activity (the potheads will make something up and who's to check) two days in advance, to keep it all hunky dory. The officials say the cause can be anything, what with them being totally non-partisan, and the vice principal or whoever can't veto the activity in any case, but rest assured, a case will come up where the student who goes to a Trump rally experiences subsequent bias from school officials in the aftermath. Leftists just can't stop themselves on that front. Seriously, why should a student have to disclose a cause he supports, permission or not. You can bet the cause will end up in some social media company's data-mining database or in the hands of some Democratic party operative. Why they should have to disclose anything at all is highly problematic, given leftist vengeance toward conservatives.