[SenAnder]

If you change "peaceful protest" to "frighten people" and "corrupt giveaway to private company from parents' pockets" to "public service", then your position indeed sounds very reasonable.

Ask yourself - who should they protest? It was not "teachers" that failed them, or "the school", or "the school system" - it was the specific people who made the deal that parents can only purchase computers from a single private company.

[fnordpiglet]

Showing up at peoples houses is a direct threat to them as individuals and their family. Their place of work is elsewhere. Your perception of how they do their job is just that, but it is still public service - that’s the definition of working for a public entity. If it is corrupt, then sue them. We have laws covering corruption already that don’t require intimidation by mobs.

To your continued edits: they should protest the school administration at the school administration building, or the schools, sue them in court, etc. But leave them and their families alone.

[SenAnder]

Then showing up at their workplace is a direct threat to them as workers and their colleagues. And please stop conflating "peaceful protest of the contract signers" with "angry mob accosting children". Otherwise I will conflate "laptops from specific company" with "spyware-ridden laptops that pry into children's private lives and snoop on their conversations, selling that data to advertisers, future employers, and storing it indefinitely so it may be subpoena'd by the police".

[fnordpiglet]

I’m talking about how people feel where people protest outside their homes. When it’s at work they feel like they’re in some context where it’s appropriate and is related to their work, and they enjoy a certain amount of anonymity.

When people show at their homes and are protesting, it becomes deeply personal, and exposes their family who is not involved as targets.

Listen, I feel like you don’t get how people can feel intimidated by strangers protesting in front of their personal and individual home, their site of their sanctum and a private place of safety for them and their family. How in that context what would otherwise be protestors now feels like an angry mob. That’s ok you don’t, I guess, but I would suggest sitting back and thinking empathetically about the difference between our work milieu and our home milieu, and how you cross a line that divides these worlds when you protest their work at their home.

To your continued edits:

Please do conflate those. I am not in favor of the laptops or how they’re requisitioned. I’m saying don’t show up at peoples private homes to make your political points. It’s scary stuff that crosses a line. You might not see that, but I hope you can see how others might.