Gov's office to protesting NJ students: Stay in classrooms today
STATE HOUSE BUREAU
STATE HOUSE BUREAU
The N.J. governor's office today told protesting students to stay in school.
A statement from Gov. Chris Christie's press office addressing the student walkouts said that the students walking out in response to state aid cuts to education "belong in the classroom."
"We hope all efforts were made to curtail student walkouts," the statement said. "It is also our firm hope that the students were motivated by youthful rebellion or spring fever – and not by encouragement from any one-sided view of the current budget crisis in New Jersey. Students would be better served if they were given a full, impartial understanding of the problems that got us here in the first place and why dramatic action was needed.”
Department of Education Commissioner Bret Schundler urged schools to enforce their attendance policies today.
"They should not be permitting students to walk out of class,” Schundler said in
A statement from Gov. Chris Christie's press office addressing the student walkouts said that the students walking out in response to state aid cuts to education "belong in the classroom."
"We hope all efforts were made to curtail student walkouts," the statement said. "It is also our firm hope that the students were motivated by youthful rebellion or spring fever – and not by encouragement from any one-sided view of the current budget crisis in New Jersey. Students would be better served if they were given a full, impartial understanding of the problems that got us here in the first place and why dramatic action was needed.”
Department of Education Commissioner Bret Schundler urged schools to enforce their attendance policies today.
"They should not be permitting students to walk out of class,” Schundler said in