[BurbankKarl]

Culver City providing mutual aid at one of their schools. Students being told to get on busses back to campus or they are getting booked. School district has already lost millions in lost education funds and overtime for officers

[calcowgirl]

The following is from the San Diego Union-Tribune. Our elected officials are a disgrace.

On Monday, some 36,000 students from 25 Los Angeles County school districts walked out of class, officials said, with more than 1,000 protesting outside City Hall for much of the day. The youths tied up streets and even made dangerous forays onto freeways to loudly protest against legislation that would make it a felony to be in the U.S. illegally, impose new penalties on employers who hire illegal immigrants, and build fences along part of the U.S.-Mexican border.

Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa praised the students' action, but also urged them to return to school.

“I want you to know that there are people right now all across the country that agree with you that we need immigration reform that rewards work, that gives people a pathway to citizenship, that allows families to stay together,” Villaraigosa told the crowd.

California state Sen. Richard Alarcon speaks to students gathered near the Van Nuys Federal Building Monday to protest proposed immigration reforms. Authorities reported that more than 36,000 students from Los Angeles County schools walked out of class to join in protest marches. Other protests were reported across the state and in Washington, Phoenix, Detroit and Yakima, Wash.

[Crispus Attucks Patriot]

Time to bring THIS back to the schools....

[Utahrd]

I used to work near 223rd & Avalon.

Lots of businesses there are owned by legal immigrants. (one of whom signed my paycheck.)

Good job, amigos, preventing people who obey our laws from making a living.......

[RexBeach]

Whenever people start saying stuff like "we're humans," or "we're human beings," it means they have virtually no argument, or no argument at all.

That certainly appears to be the story here.

[lowbridge]

"We may be illegal immigrants, but we are human," Metropolitan High School senior Melania Preciado said at City Hall as she waved a Mexican flag. "We deserve the same rights as everyone else, not be treated like criminals."

So if I enter Mexico illegally, enter my son into a Mexican public school at Mexican taxpayer expense while waving an American flag around, I should expect the same rights as Mexican citizens?

[cgk]

The mayor (Villaraigosa) later spoke to the students, saying their voices were being heard, but urging them to return to class..... they forgot he also told them to go back to class and SHARE WITH THE OTHER STUDENTS HOW IMPORTANT THIS IS TO "US." The mayor is probably paid by the Mexican government.

[Visalia]

"We will have in-class teachings for students so that they can have conversations to deal with this issue in a very productive way," said Rowena Lagrosa, executive officer of educational services for the district. "We are being proactive so that those students will show up for school tomorrow."

Nothing like STRICT discipline to get those unruly students back in line. Problem solved, right?

[absolootezer0]

isn't truancy a crime? imagine how much revenue LA could generate issuing the fines for all these truant students.

[Republicus2001]

PARTY!!!

[b4its2late]

A day off is a day off to any kid. Snow day or a snow job day. It don't matter.

[Edison]

"We may be illegal immigrants, but we are human," Metropolitan High School senior Melania Preciado said at City Hall as she waved a Mexican flag. "We deserve the same rights as everyone else, not be treated like criminals."

I think this pretty much sums it up. They acknowledge their illegal status but claim they are not crimminals, all the while the bleeding hearts clubs are ready to remove their guilt by making them "Legal".

[wyattearp]

Before letting any of these kiddies back into school, make their parents show that they are in the country legally. If not, take them and their parents back to Mexico where they belong. They can protest there all they want to.

[Tzimisce]

...now we just need to lead these students to believe that al Quada is in favor of immigration reform...

[Diddle E. Squat]

The nonsense is going on for the second day in the Dallas area, too:

Injuries reported amid walkouts (3/28 Dallas Protest for the Right to Play Hooky)

[Hoodlum91]

You know, when I was in school, any unexcused absence knocked your grade down 10 points. These kids are quickly approaching negative grades.

Let's see how much protesting goes on in summer school.

[Redleg Duke]

Expel them all.

[Theo]

"We may be illegal immigrants, but we are human," Metropolitan High School senior Melania Preciado said at City Hall as she waved a Mexican flag. "We deserve the same rights as everyone else, not be treated like criminals."

He's a self-confessed "illegal" and wants not to be treated like a criminal.

That just makes my head hurt.

[Desert_Girl]

I am in Houston, and we have a lot of kids walking out of school today. My son (15) went to school, knowing there would be a protest today. I don't think he is participating, but I kept my daughter home today because I know she would be right in the middle of it. Ifigured she needed a real civics lesson from mom more than she needed her classes today.

[petercooper]

Illegals: Go home, nobody wants you here.

[lainie]

LAUSD mouthpiece tried unsuccessfully to define "lockdown" earlier this morning on KTTV. The gist is, doors are not locked, people can move in and out of the buildings and the campus, but the kids were ordered to stay in class until "Nutrition Time," (her term), of 10 a.m.

[high-pitched mm-hmm!]

Nutrition time. How institutional.