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Report: Students at Chicago’s Senn High School protested after saying the principal did nothing when a white teacher told a Latina student to “go back to your country” and a Black student to stand and be thankful for free lunch rights after they both sat during the pledge/anthem.
Also during the anthem, which was played at a Hispanic Heritage Assembly, some teachers asked the girls sitting “through the national anthem to protest the treatment of immigrants and refugees in America” if their “legs were broken.”blockclubchicago.org/2020/02/12/cps…
Another student protester said Principal Beck did nothing when the same teacher that told another student to “go back to her country” made fun of his disability two years ago.

He said Principal Beck excused the teacher saying, “well that’s how he is.”
Senn High School students protesting Principal Beck with chants of “do your job!”
Others held up posters...
When Principal Beck told the students to disperse and go to class, they chanted, “we are staying.”
“This is our school!”
“He needs to go!”
“Terminate Him!”
Not sure of the sequence of all this, but here is Principal Beck addressing the students:
These young people are not going to accept being treated this way at their own school:
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