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Sunday, October 10, 2010

Newark kids use Facebook to protest rats, guns — Joanne Jacobs

Newark kids use Facebook to protest rats, guns — Joanne Jacobs

Newark kids use Facebook to protest rats, guns

Two weeks after Facebook’s founder promised $100 million to improve Newark schools, students used Facebook to organize a protest against their high school’s inability to control gangsta, rodent and insect infestations.

On Thursday, students at Barringer High School in Newark walked out of class in protest, saying their school is unsafe and unsanitary.

Students tell The Star-Ledger of Newark there are rats, mice, cockroaches, spiders, guns and