Students in New York City participated in a mass walkout, protesting a lack of testing, cramped conditions and a lack of social distancing
Students walked out of classes across the city Tuesday to protest school conditions amid a surge in coronavirus cases.
Coronavirus Update: More Americans are in hospital with COVID-19 than in last winter peak, and WHO warns more than half of Europe could be infected by omicron within weeksSources at several schools said that both administrators and teachers quietly signed off on the walkout and told students that they would not be subject to unexcused absences.
Participation was particularly high at some of the city’s most exclusive institutions, including Brooklyn Tech High School, Stuyvesant and Bronx Science.
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