(The Center Square) – Hundreds of students at high schools throughout California held walkouts Friday over immigration raids and the law enforcement-involved deaths of two people in Minneapolis.
Schools said they prefer students to stay on campus, but staff were not standing in their way. Students successfully walked out from high schools in cities varying from Los Angeles and Riverside in Southern California to San Francisco and Sacramento up north. They headed to off-campus marches and protests.
“We support the rights of students to safely exercise their First Amendment rights,” Brian Heap, chief communications officer for Sacramento Unified School District, told The Center Square Friday. “We don’t encourage students to leave campus, but we also don’t impede them from doing so.”…