Two days later, several hundred students walked out of class. A handful of teens protested at the Capitol Friday and a couple of dozen kids walked out of Fort Herriman Middle School Monday.
Jordan District officials said it's up to individual school principals to handle the repercussions of students leaving school to protest teacher layoffs. "The children have to face the consequences," said district spokesman Steven Dunham.
In general, Jordan District high schools require students to make up absences by attending a study and tutoring session before or after school or on Saturdays. For some students, the "protest" absence put them over their limit of allowed absences and they will have to do a make-up or suffer academically. Other students who protested had enough allowed absences to spare and will be unaffected.
As those whom we entrust our children do, so our children do also.
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