High school students in Santa Rosa walked out of classes Friday afternoon to protest failures by officials that they say led to a deadly stabbing inside a classroom earlier this week.
Demonstrators said that incident was just the most glaring example of a worsening problem.
"After every school in the county got threats about school shootings or just incidents in general, it made the students, including me, really worry about the future of the school and what would happen," Maria Carrillo student Damian Esparza Sanchez said Thursday."And then we heard about the incident here, we started posting on social media about a walkout tomorrow because us as students didn't feel safe anymore.
Some parents said they are also growing more alarmed after hearing stories from their kids about what sometimes happens at school. "My daughters come home almost daily and tell me, 'Oh my God mom, there was another fight today. It was really bad.' Almost on a daily basis," said Montgomery High parent Christina Tupper.On Thursday, the mother of one of the teens injured in
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