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Related: About this forumTexas students, frustrated by limited COVID-19 protocols, turn to petition drives and walkouts
by Brooke Park, Texas TribuneFor Texas high school students, keeping up with class work was hard enough before the pandemic.
But then the pandemic hit, and with it came debates over everything having to do with Texas schools. Masks or no masks? Will online classes be available?
Schools reopened last fall but are struggling to remain open in the midst of a coronavirus surge caused by the omicron variant. The semester has barely started, and so far, there have been 192,145 student COVID-19 cases and 61,142 staff cases, according to the Texas Education Agency. That appears to be the highest case level since the pandemic began in 2020, although the data collected by the state is often incomplete.
At the same time, theres been a scaling back of coronavirus precautions, prompting many students to take action with petition drives and class walkouts.
Read more: https://www.texastribune.org/2022/01/31/texas-students-covid-19-walkouts/
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Texas students, frustrated by limited COVID-19 protocols, turn to petition drives and walkouts (Original Post)
TexasTowelie
Jan 2022
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SoCalDavidS
(9,998 posts)1. Maybe They Could Take The Time To Fucking VOTE In November
If they're that disturbed, maybe they could vote the POS Governor, Lt Gov & Atty General OUT OF OFFICE when they have the chance.
Although I'm not holding my breath that the repubs will ever let TX go the slightest bit blue as a state.
bahboo
(16,337 posts)2. well...they're high school students...
and even though they are probably better informed than most voters in Texas, they can't vote...
I misread, I thought they were college students.