Tim Vandenack covers immigration, multicultural issues and Northern Utah for KSL. He worked several years for the Standard-Examiner in Ogden and has lived and reported in Mexico, Chile and along the U.S.-Mexico border.
SALT LAKE CITY — Amid continuing walkouts and demonstrations by Utah students opposed to the federal immigration crackdown, school officials around the state are starting to worry about the potential educational impact.
They're also warning that walkouts — neither sanctioned nor supervised by school officials — raise safety concerns, in part due to the possibility of confrontations with others the protesters encounter.Following a spate of student protesting last Friday, representatives from the Granite, Salt Lake City and Ogden school districts messaged parents, warning them about the potential negative repercussions of demonstrating. Students from at least one Ogden junior high school walked out and protested on Monday with more demonstrations expected around the state in coming days. Corner Canyon High School students walkout to protest ICE at Draper City Park in Draper on Friday. "As we have stated in communication to families, we respect the right of students to peacefully protest. However, we have concerns about safety and the lost instruction time for students," Ogden School District spokesman Jer Bates said in a message to KSL on Monday. "Our preference would be that if students choose to participate in these peaceful protests, that they do so outside of school hours with careful planning regarding time and location with the intent of ensuring safety."Hundreds of students walked out of classes around Utah last Friday, marching in the streets with signs critical of President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown and chanting slogans critical of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, responsible for enforcing U.S. immigration law. Students from Murray High and Hillcrest Junior High in Murray, Taylorsville High in Taylorsville, Corner Canyon High in Draper, Granger High in West Valley City and West High, East High and Highland High in Salt Lake City protested, though organizers said 15 schools in all took part in the action. Many more students from other schools walked out and protested earlier in the week and in the last week of January as well.Rich Stowell, spokesman for Alpine School District in Utah County, said students from five or six district high schools staged walkouts and protests last week, with around 200 students in all taking part. Other walkouts have drawn participation from as many as 250 or more students from individual Utah schools, including an estimated 350 who took part in a walk
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