A protesting student holds an placard with a quote from Aldous Huxley
Hundreds of students poured out of at least five Jefferson County schools on Tuesday to protest what they say is the Jeffco School Board's attempt to whitewash history. Protests also continued on Wednesday at two other schools.
About 200 students walked out of Pomona High School in Arvada at 8:30 a.m. gathering at Wadsworth Boulevard, 7NEWS Reporter Tyler Lopez observed.
"My daughter and her friends at 80th and Wadsworth. Fighting for education. Pomona High School," Robin Reed Johnson posted on the Denver Channel's Facebook page.
Around 9:40 a.m. about 300 students at Arvada West walked out, holding signs and chanting as they marched along the sidewalk and stood along the street.
At issue is a proposed curriculum review in Jefferson County that could revise AP U.S. History to promote positive aspects of U.S. history and heritage, while avoiding material on civil disorder and social strife.
"Our entire history, things that changed America for the better, were acts of civil disobedience," said Debbie Velarde, a junior at Wheat Ridge High School which also had a smaller walkout of about 40 students. "The Declaration of Independence was an act of civil disobedience."
Jefferson county students protest at the threatened whitewashing of their history lessons
Tuesday was the third consecutive school day that has been disrupted by protests.
Students and teachers are upset with recent changes within the school district's leadership.
For the students, the dispute is mostly over an effort to review how classes like Advanced Placement U.S. History are taught.
. . . used by the gov't to subjugate the masses in Orwell's "1984" was the ability to change the historical record in order to make it appear to validate gov't pronouncements and actions. One of the main reasons that the US has fallen so far from the ideals of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution is that most of the psychopaths running things have taken "1984" to be an instruction manual rather than a warning.
Naturally, a large segment of the population that has been dumbed down by the gov't controlled education system to become intellectually incurious and is satisfied with the proffered bread and circuses has made following the "1984" path much easier.