The ADA count is usually submitted at 9 am so that’s why the handlers picked 10 am. The schools will have already submitted the count so they’ll get their money.
“The ADA count is usually submitted at 9 am”
That is true in our elementary schools, but in our MS and HS, every minute is accounted for all day long. I can’t take my kids out of school unless the excuse I use is on the “approved” list. That list is short and the attendance Nazis are all over me if I don’t adhere to the rules. As a parent, it is quite maddening and I would be shocked if any campus in our district allowed students to exit the school for such a demonstration.
The vast majority of those kids are minors, still under their parents’ supervision, and need to be suspended if they leave their seats to join a political walkout. If the parents want them to participate, I guess they can show up and claim their child is ill and needs to leave the school, but they’ll need to keep them home the rest of the day.