U.K. Police Chief Proposes Banning Peaceful Student Protests | Education | Change.org

U.K. Police Chief Proposes Banning Peaceful Student Protests | Education | Change.org

U.K. Police Chief Proposes Banning Peaceful Student Protests

by Megan Cottrell

British students have rallied for weeks, protesting cuts to higher education that would raise tuition beyond what many can afford. College students, high school students andeven elementary school students have gotten involved, standing up for their ability to get an affordable education.

"We are no longer that generation that doesn't care, we are no longer that generation to sit back and take whatever they give us. We are now the generation at the heart of the fight back," said 15 year-old protester Rodney Owen McCarthy.

But because some of the protests have gotten violent, with some police even being accused of assaulting