The walkout Tuesday, a week before school board elections, targeted decisions such as challenged book removals and limiting the authority of the board’s lone student representative.
Students walk out of class at Mat-Su Career & Technical High School near Wasilla to protest decisions made by the Matanuska-Susitna Borough School District school board and superintendent on Tuesday, Oct. 31, 2023.
The walkout was in response to what organizers called “anti-student” decisions from school Superintendent Randy Trani and the school board. Those decisions include an expansion of high school graduation credit requirements; a school board decision to But while school board members Ole Larson and Kathy McCollum are running for reelection, the walkout was designed to be nonpartisan and against the school board as a whole — not against any specific individual, said Lily Shea, a junior at Career & Technical High School near Wasilla who helped organize the protest. Students were asked to not bring any candidate-specific or political signage to the protest.
At Palmer High School, about 200 teens joined student government president Deric Medley around the flagpole, occasionally breaking into chants of “student voice matters” and “no more silence, hear our voice.” Students cheered as a caravan of three vehicles rolled through the parking lot with horns blaring and “stand for students” signs taped on their windows.
Students walk out of class at Wasilla High School to protest decisions made by the Matanuska-Susitna Borough School District school board and superintendent on Tuesday, Oct. 31, 2023.
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