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"At my school ... the bathrooms have no stalls, no toilet paper, no paper towels and they stink... And in class, tiles are falling on people because there's water leaking from the roof."

 

"Education, not incarceration!" "Aquí estamos y no nos vamos!"

Over 2,000 middle and high school students in the San Francisco Bay Area walk out of school, and converge on Concord California to protest California's policy of budgeting for new police stations and prisons and not for schools.

In May 2000, a class action suit was filed against the State of California alleging unequal treatment in providing the "bare minimums" required for education. Check out the ACLU's Student Rights area, Ask Sybil Liberty.

Here's the Spring 2000 update from Tim O'Neill a high school junior and chairman of the International Student Activism Alliance's "Campaign to Delay School Starting Times":

"We have received support from [doctors and medical researchers] all over the world and are ... now attempting to have these supporters compose a letter of severity to be sent to administrators of school districts, the Department of Education, the House of Representatives, the National Educational Association, the National Federation of Teachers, the State Board of Education in every state, and several other organizations and affiliations. The national campaign will be taking on an awareness campaign and also an attempt to ratify legislation to provide transitional funding to any school that starts their high school after nine AM. "

Check out:

The ISAA
The National Institute of Mental Health's statement on early school start times.