Students at Deep Creek High School in Chesapeake staged a walkout protest Friday afternoon despite what parents say was resistance from school administration, while students at a Portsmouth high school were permitted to conduct a similar demonstration.
Marcella Alston, the mother of a ninth-grader at Deep Creek High School in Chesapeake, said her daughter, despite wanting to, was unable to participate in the planned walkout protesting recent ICE activity across the country.
“And today, for the peaceful protest, they were planning to leave out, I guess during second bell, which was supposedly approved by administration. And then when they got to the doors, the doors were blocked, there were flags taken from some of the students. And they were threatened that if they left out of the school, they would be suspended,” Alston said…