New Jersey high school students walk out

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2010/04/students_across_nj_protest_gov.html Newark high school students from all over the city walk out of class and converge on City Hall, chanting "We want Booker" and "Save our schools" in protest of NJ Gov. Chris Christie's proposed budget cuts for public schools. Video by Andrew Mills/The Star-Ledger

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• Newark
• NJ school budget
• Chris Christie

[Halftrac]

Take a good look taxpayers! This is what you get for $19,000 per sudent per year!

The Newark Schools have the lowest graduation rate in the state! Here is the proof!

[BlackJacx1]

Gov. Christie Cutting the NJ budget = save $300,000,000 in one year.

Cutting School to protest = Suspension(more time off from school, score)!

Seeing the boy you like at the protest 0:12 = Priceless!

For everything in your life, there's master card... Oh wait, that's what got your state into this mess in the first place. Never mind.

[jleeshoots]

were white people

[nsarts1]

im glad i stayed in. most of these kids just wanted to skip school without getting in trouble.

[electricalron]

GO Christie Go!

[HUMANSAREBENEATHME]

RECALL NAZI CHRISTIE!!!

[expatted]

There's no money for school: they have to bomb brown people and steal their OIL.

[Jermybug]

@TheIndigosummers

What are you talking about? Our schools didn't get big stimulus checks from the government. We made it with less funding. It's a shame that people, especially students, have to sacrifice during this tough economic time. But, times are tough BECAUSE government spending is out of control. Many areas that receive large amounts of public funding are going to have to accept cuts. That's called being responsible. Apparently, the NJEA didn't teach you that lesson, did they?

[StreetWhispera]

@tnphelps how do honor students look? ignorant fool

[blinkidpv]

I can picture the teachers that day getting the kids excited for a rally. The girl at 0:12 could care less about the walkout; Hell if someone told me that we were going to have a walk out in high school for free pancakes in the morning I would have done it. I doubt the kids there care about the teachers paying a few extra bucks for health care like everyone else in the world.

[circusmaximus10]

@darkflip408 Do you have any idea about how much these teachers get in lifetime benefits and big penions when NO ONE in private sector gets the same. If you had a choice-face teacher layoffs & program cutting OR eliminate their LIFETIME benefits? Which would you choose?

[darkflip408]

Christie is such a wonderful governor (being extremely facetious). He cuts so much funding from education, lay off thousands more people, and give tax breaks to those making $400,000/year. Yeah, such a wonderful governor. I mean, we don't want a recall because of this, we want a recall because we think he is just too good for the job (being SUPER facetious)