From the assistant superintendent down to school administration, the call has been for students who are walking out to return to school.

It is super important to be in the classroom, your future is at stake they are told.

Wakefield middle school students suspended for WALKOUT.

So then when the students return, Pedicone’s Posse kicks them out of school, suspending about a dozen middle school students!

It is so important for the students to be in the classroom that the school will keep them out of the classroom?

Since MAS students are lovers of knowledge, the suspended students were invited to attend classes at the University of Arizona, including a Teach-in where media was invited and students were able to describe their experience walking out, why they did it, and their suspensions.

Excerpts from the teach-in from the Wakefield middle school students are above.

UA Professor Nolan Cabrera

UA Professor Nolan Cabrera speaks at the School of Ethnic Studies which was formed after it was banned in Tucson on the significance of Paulo Friere’s banned book.

Hicks is against Chicano Studies.

TUSD board member Michael Hicks, whose Hicks’ Resolution banned MAS in Tucson, was hiding in the back of the Teach-in at the University of Arizona held today.

After going around to introduce everyone in the room, it was soon to be Hicks’ turn… what does he do?