Students stage walkout, protest over teacher pay cuts

04-02-2010

By Scott Martindale/Orange County Register

Hundreds of students staged a half-hour walkout and a raucous protest at a Capistrano Unified high school Thursday morning to protest the 10.1 percent pay cuts that have been imposed on all district teachers by the school board. About 200 students at Dana Hills High School in Dana Point walked out of class around 9:51 a.m., the start of the school's 28-minute tutorial period, and congregated on a front lawn, Principal Robert Nye said. School administrators and sheriff's deputies were able to convince about 100 of them to return to class, but the rest remained outside for about 30 minutes. "We were having conversations with them, but it was clear they weren't going to go back into class," Nye said. "Quite frankly, we felt it was safer if we just let them sit there." About five minutes before tutorial period ended, the protestors got up and headed toward the school's central quad, where they began a noisy demonstration just as students were getting out of class for a five-minute morning break, Nye said. (more...)

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