Not in school: 300 students run amok for protest of proposed school teacher cuts

Instead of being in class where they're expected to be, students hang out in the streets to socialize and protest, ya know, something. This many kids on the same street at the same time is a nuisance and a danger to the public and irresponsible of the school's admin. The city should make its proposed cuts and fire the school's admin for its wrecklessness in endangering the public by using the students for its own political gain, and the students should be punished for ditching class. How dumb: The students protest the city's proposed cuts in school resources while refusing to use the school resources granted to them by the city.

R News -- June 9, 2009

Student protestors made their presence known in downtown Rochester one day ahead of the city council's public hearing on a controversial budget for the city school district.

Most of the students go to the School of the Arts (SOTA) and are unhappy about possible teacher cuts there.

Between 200 and 300 students marched from their school to the district's central office to city hall Tuesday afternoon to make their concerns known.

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