Angry about budget cuts to education, and spilling off the sidewalk and into the street, students from Roosevelt High School walked out of their last period classes and are en route to University of Washington to meet up with students from other high schools to make a protest of hundreds, Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2011. One of the protest signs here said, "You cut school so we cut class." Photo: Ken Lambert / The Seattle Times
Roosevelt High School students walked out at 1:45 p.m., headed down 15th Ave N.E. as a group and joined up with Ballard, Garfield, Ingraham, and Nathan Hale students at Red Square on the UW campus. The protest then headed to Representative Frank Chopp‘s office on University Way N.E., where the students delivered handmade signs with with their signatures that read “Fund Us” and “No More Cuts.”
The event was coordinated by Students of Washington for Change (SoWC), a student-run movement in Washington State that aims to raise awareness and take action on issues related to student rights.
We’ve compiled a timeline of tweets and photos from the protest below, along with a video produced (we assume) by a student involved in the event.
More coverage:
- Seattle Times Photo Gallery: Students walk out to protest cuts (Dec. 14)
- 97.3 KIRO FM: Meet four friends ditching class to protest (Dec. 15)
