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Protest equals punishment
Some Plant City High students were disciplined for leaving school Monday to attend a rally against federal immigration legislation.
By STAFF WRITER
Published April 11, 2006
About 50 students at Plant City High School learned a hard lesson Tuesday: Sometimes you have to pay for what you believe. The students, many of them children of Mexican immigrants, left school Monday to join a rally against federal immigration legislation. Because the students left school without permission, they will receive between one and two days of suspension. The 150 to 200 other students who skipped school entirely to attend the rally will get a different punishment: an unexcused absence unless their parents called the school with a valid excuse.
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