Threatened with suspension, Lincoln Prep middle schoolers in KCMO refused to back down and joined the growing student movement to denounce ICE and the proposed ICE concentration camps planned to be built in Kansas City.
When Lincoln College Preparatory Academy administrators discovered the students were planning the walkout, they did what school officials so often do when confronted with young people exercising their political voice: they tried to contain it.
The principal called the organizing student into the office. They claimed they wanted to “support” her. They offered a weakened alternative: stage a more quiet and subdued event in the auditorium instead.
By morning, an email went out to families. The walkout had been sanitized, redirected indoors, rendered toothless, but the students refused…