JeffCo Students Interrupt School Board Meeting
GOLDEN, Colo. (AP) - Jefferson County students upset about a possible plan to review their curriculum, including Advanced Placement U.S. history, are again using civil disobedience to make their point.
About a dozen students were escorted by security out of the school board's Thursday night meeting after various maneuvers, including standing up and reading from their history textbooks aloud during the meeting.
A woman who yelled from the audience in support also was escorted out. Another student was able to read a passage about Malcolm X, but after his allotted time was up, the microphone was turned off and he was removed.
After someone blew a whistle and the students recited the Pledge of Allegiance, they gathered in the hallway outside the meeting and chanted "We are the future, let us know our past" before leaving.
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