Long Beach : 180 Suspended at Millikan
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More than 180 Millikan High School students were suspended for the week because they protested a new tardiness policy. Most of the suspensions followed a campus sit-in Monday at the East Long Beach campus to protest the policy that went into effect this week.
Under the new policy, students who are late to class can be sent to an “avoidance room” where they have to sit erect with their eyes forward for an hour and cannot read nor study.
The policy is modeled after a program instituted 3 years ago at Cajon High School in San Bernardino. Richard Van Der Laan, a spokesman for the Long Beach Unified School District, said that Cajon faced student protests when the program was instituted there.
The Parent-Teacher Assn. at the school is scheduled to discuss the policy at a meeting at 1 p.m. today in Room 323.
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