Many Boston high schoolers walked out of class on Friday morning to draw attention to the lack of COVID-19 safety measures in their schools.
Students from Boston Latin Academy in Dorchester walk out of class in protest of the lack of protection from COVID inside the school.
“We hope this walk-out will make the governor and DESE do something and not say it was just a bunch of kids, as he has called us before,” said Mercer, in front of the Henderson. “A lot of people in the commonwealth who are adults are also pushing for this, such as teachers and staff and state representatives.”
Mercer said the overall effort was aimed at getting high filtration masks provided to students and teachers, having a two-week cooling period online to stop the current spread, and making sure the lunchroom/cafeteria was COVID-19 safe and friendly. One of the more controversial ideas within the student body, the school communities, and with some teachers, is the call for a two-week online school period. They are asking that schools go remote for two weeks to stop the spread of COVID in the schools, and that the state would count those days as official school days – which they do not now.
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