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LAUSD Urges Students to Avoid May Day Marches
May 1, 2008, 6:06 AM PDT
In an effort to keep students from walking out of
their classrooms to participate in today's May Day rallies, Los Angeles Unified
schools will hold open forums during lunch hours to discuss immigration and
other issues, district officials said.As they have done in previous years, LAUSD officials will attempt to entice students to stay in class by offering them an opportunity to voice their opinions at forums and by making immigration a part of the curriculum in social studies classes, said LAUSD spokeswoman Susan Cox. Last year, almost 1,500 students walked out of 15 LAUSD schools on May Day, many going downtown to join an estimated 10,000 people who had gathered to call for a path for citizenship for illegal immigrants. Some protest organizers walked by campuses with bullhorns during the morning, urging students to skip school and take part in the protest, and district officials wound up sending buses to the rallies to bring students back to campus. Though the exact number of absences reported on May Day in 2007 was not immediately available, it was significantly less than the year before, when 71,942 absences were reported among students in grades 6 through 12, Cox said. Copyright © 2008, KTLA
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