Another of those lightweight "standard" responses.  If you don't have an answer for an argument, simply dismiss it as a "straw man" argument. "  Note, you did not refer to the students as "impressionable" despite your quotation marks, and you certainly didn't use the qualifer "some" in reference to their "leaders, er, teachers."  Read it over, it speaks for itself.  

" These poor kids are being herded and brainwashed by their leaders, er, teachers. They didn’t organize this protest by themselves or transport themselves to the courthouse."  cut and paste of 40-20 comment