Local students, teachers join large protest
By Cameron Macdonald - Citizen News Editor
WITH VIDEO | A funeral was held on the Monterey Trail High School campus before school began on March 4.
Black-clad students planted wooden tombstones for teachers, librarians, counselors and athletic programs on a traffic island for parents to see while dropping off their children. Students also silently held up caskets for the same occupations and stood by the school entrance for drivers on Power Inn Road and television news cameras to view.
“Save our Schools,” was chanted to those passing by. Some protestors handed out fliers that asked onlookers to tell their state legislators to cease slashing education funding.
Student Cavina Vo expects she will lose many teachers and counselors next year. She held a sign that encouraged people to write to their legislators about the education issue.
“Where are we going to get help for colleges and our future if nobody is here to help us?” Vo said. “We need to do something before it’s too late.”
Vo and her classmates joined a nationwide protest against shrinking funding for public education that day.
A few thousand college students rallied outside the California state capitol while demonstrators blocked an Oakland freeway and attempted to enter one outside the
Black-clad students planted wooden tombstones for teachers, librarians, counselors and athletic programs on a traffic island for parents to see while dropping off their children. Students also silently held up caskets for the same occupations and stood by the school entrance for drivers on Power Inn Road and television news cameras to view.
“Save our Schools,” was chanted to those passing by. Some protestors handed out fliers that asked onlookers to tell their state legislators to cease slashing education funding.
Student Cavina Vo expects she will lose many teachers and counselors next year. She held a sign that encouraged people to write to their legislators about the education issue.
“Where are we going to get help for colleges and our future if nobody is here to help us?” Vo said. “We need to do something before it’s too late.”
Vo and her classmates joined a nationwide protest against shrinking funding for public education that day.
A few thousand college students rallied outside the California state capitol while demonstrators blocked an Oakland freeway and attempted to enter one outside the