h/t Patriot Dreamer….. (Blaze) As Wisconsin unions rally to protest Gov. Scott Walker‘s emergency budget proposal that would get rid of most of the state workers’ collective bargaining privileges, video posted on YouTube appears to show teachers pulling high school students into the conflict. 
The video [below], taken by Wisconsin’s conservative MacIver Institute, shows students from Madison‘s East High School claiming their teachers brought them to protests at the State Capitol and also openly admitting that they really don’t know why they’re there:

High school students in Wisconsin have staged walk-outs in support of their teachers over the last two days, much to the delight of liberal sites such as The Nation and the blog of the AFL-CIO.
The Appleton Post Crescent reports on some of those walk-outs:

Incensed by Gov. Scott Walker’s plan to end most collective bargaining rights from teachers and other public employees, about 200 Appleton East High School students filed out of class at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday chanting, “Save our teachers, save our school.”

Similar protests occurred Tuesday in school districts across Wisconsin, including large walkouts in Platteville, Sheboygan and Stoughton.
John Matthews, who heads the Madison teachers union, asked the school superintendent to close schools today because few teachers and staff represented by the union will be present.
Classes in some Madison schools were in fact canceled because 40 percent of the 2,600 members in the teacher bargaining unit had called in sick.
On Tuesday, The Nation, the home of revolutionary-lover Frances Fox Piven, praised the high school students:

Even before the protests hit the state’s capital, about a hundred high school students in Stoughton, Wisconsin, a city about 20 miles outside of Madison, walked out of class Monday morning to protest the governor’s proposal. And today, nearly 800 Madison East High School students also walked out to join the demonstration.
“Let’s show Gov. Walker that we care about learning, and the teachers are worth every cent that we pay to them,” Theron Luhn, a high school junior who helped organize the protest in Stoughton Monday, told one of the local newspapers The Capital Times.

So, too, did the AFL-CIO. “The students have been so energized,” AFSCME Local 2412 President Gary Mitchell told the AFL-CIO blog.  (Much More at the Blaze.com)
This exact same strategy was used last year in New Jersey by the NJEA against Governor Chris Christie….  It didn’t work……/SD 
————–  Our Original Thread on the Wisconsin Battle Below ————–
(Business Insider) – Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, a Republican, unveiled an emergency budget proposal Friday to deal with the state’s growing budget woes. Wisconsin has a $137 million deficit this year, and faces a projected $2.9 billion budget shortfall for 2012 and 2013. Under Walker’s plan, public employees would lose all of their collective bargain rights, except a limited negotiation of wages. State workers would also have to contribute more to their pension and health care benefit plans. 
Unions erupted in outrage as they learned about Walker’s proposal. The Governor told Milwaukee Public Radio that he has briefed the Wisconsin National Guard to prepare them for any worker unrest today. (Article)
Union Employees plan to fight back with a Cheesehead Day of Rage.  Protests, demonstrations and union activities are planned throughout Wisconsin.
(MSNBC Reports) “The Wisconsin State AFL-CIO on Sunday launched a major advertising campaign against Gov. Scott Walker’s plan that would erase almost all collective bargaining rights for most public workers as a way to shore up the state’s finances,” the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel writes. “The television and radio ads say Walker and other politicians plan to “take away rights of thousands of nurses, teachers and other trusted public employees” and are doing so with almost no public discussion or debate.” “The Legislature could act this week on the bill, which would shore up the state’s finances through June 30. A public hearing is expected on the bill Tuesday in the Legislature’s budget committee. The bill would require the vast majority of state, local and school employees to pay half the costs of their pensions and pay at least 12.6% of their health care premiums.” (Read Full Article)
(Columbus Dispatch) — Arguing that state and local governments need the ability to adjust to the new economic paradigm, Senate Republicans today unveiled details of the most sweeping attempt in 27 years to limit the power of public unions to negotiate terms of employment.

The measure attracted a large group of union supporters to the Statehouse. The crowd inside spilled into the atrium, where a sound system was set up so they could hear testimony. Outside, several protestors clad in yellow shirts and carrying signs that urged a no vote demonstrated on the sidewalk.
The stakes are huge.
Collective bargaining would be wiped out for all state workers, including those at institutions of higher education. Local police officers and fire fighters who cannot strike would see weakened binding arbitration. Local workers would no longer bargain for health insurance, automatic pay increases would be stripped from state law, and teachers would not get a say in which buildings they teach in.
While Sen. Shannon Jones, R-Spingboro, insists she is not trying to punish state workers, her Senate Bill 5 is expected to ignite a war with the unions the likes of which this state has not seen in decades. “I believe the vast majority of government workers are good people who work hard every day,” she said. “But I don’t think that everybody, by virtue of showing up every day, should be entitled to the same increase in salary.”
Jones and Senate GOP leaders say this is about reshaping government in a way that gives managers from the biggest state agencies to the smallest school districts the flexibility to deal with economic pressures and accomplish specific goals.
Unions see it differently. “This is a blatant attack on working people in this state,” said Anthony Caldwell, spokesman for SEIU District 1199. “This appears to be nothing more than political payback for organizations that did not support Sen. Jones or (Gov.) John Kasich.”  (Full article)