Live Thread: More Walkouts on Wednesday (Day 4 of LAUSD walkouts)

police scanner | 3/29/06 | me

[Brad’s Gramma]

Brea? Are you hearing anything there?

[bd476]

Karl thanks but I couldn't get that link to work. Do you have another?

[BurbankKarl]

Nope...

A police presence is seen at Santa Ana High School this morning. Officers were staged at area schools to prevent students from leaving campus.

Police across Orange County reported that all seemed quiet in schools where student walkouts were staged earlier this week in protest of the immigration bill pending in Congress. The situation in Santa Ana, where thousands of students left school and demonstrated Monday, was close to normal. Police were staged at high schools in case there was a repeat of incidents Tuesday, when students tried to climb fences to leave school grounds.

Spanish-language broadcast stations were reportedly featuring Mexican-American community leaders advising the youngsters to return to classes.

[Mugwump]

Brea?! That's Irvine Of The North! Do tell.

Oh, BTW, Brad's Gramma, I forgot to let you know, my lovely granddaughter is two, and she's inherited my son's impish personality. Payback, as they say... :0)

[BurbankKarl]

200 fighting main hall, LA High School.

[BenLurkin]

Some kind of demonstration going on in downtown L.A. nera CIty Hall right now.

[BurbankKarl]

now 1500 students refusing to go back to class...

[Brad’s Gramma]

Thanks.

[bd476]

Karl the link is working now. Thank you very much. Only one aggravated assault, one burglary, one grand theft auto and one theft from vehicle in a 3/4 mile radius on March 15.

[Brad’s Gramma]

Payback, as they say... :0)

WHOOOO HOOOOO!!!

[BurbankKarl]

from socalscan....

So, Oceanside had minor protests all day lately, but today the students
at Oceanside High seem to have taken it to another level. Lts now
deploying pepperballs and requesting code 3 assistance....

[Conservative4Ever]

BurbankKarl....just to let you know...Villariagose is one of them!!!

[BurbankKarl]

Smithfield-Selma students walk out to protest immigration bills

Associated Press

SMITHFIELD, N.C. - Nearly three dozen students at Smithfield-Selma High School joined in the nationwide protest of immigration bills being debated in Congress this week.

The students, mostly Hispanic, walked out of classes around 11 a.m., despite warnings from administrators that they risked suspension for skipping school.

Their focus is on House Bill 4437, passed by the House of Representatives last December. The bill would make being in the U.S. illegally a felony and calls for building two-layer fences along 700 miles of the Mexican/American border.

While some passers-by honked their car horns in support, others shouted "Go back to Mexico."

[BurbankKarl]

Hundreds of students from Desert Hot Springs, Indio and Palm Desert skipped school and left classes this morning to protest for a third day immigration legislation lawmakers are debating in Washington.

It all began before 8 a.m. today, when students from Indio High School marched from the school to the Larson Justice Center and then to the Civic Center, protesting against HR4437, a House immigration bill that would make helping illegal immigrants a crime and build a miles-long fence along the California/Mexico border.

[Txsleuth]

Hopefully, the MSM will get tired of it...and when these brats don't see their truant faces on TV..they will give up.

[redgolum]

Gentlemen this is being staged. If this keeps up into next week...

Keep you powder dry and your back covered.

[Thunder90]

Many of them are the same ones who want us to lose in Iraq.

[BurbankKarl]

Ernesto Torres, a 10th-grade history teacher, fielded questions about legislation working its way through Congress.

Why is the government targeting immigrants, one student asked.

Torres asked the 18-year-old whether he registered to vote. When the student said no, Torres responded, "That's why."

The students were surprised to learn theirs was not the first mass student protest in Los Angeles history. Torres told them about the landmark 1968 Chicano walkouts to protest poor conditions in East Los Angeles.

"You are a part of history now," Torres said.

[debg]

This Friday is Cesar Chavez Day in CA. High schools are dismissed after half-day. I suspect it will be a very busy day for the police.

[BurbankKarl]

I was thinking last night, that even Monday, with LAUSD having 26,000 students leaving, that really isn't huge compared with 305,000 HS and middle schoolers registered.