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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">I’m writing to let you know that over the past several days, the admin team has been in communication with the student group CLUV (Chicano Latino United Voices) as they and other allies are working on plans for an action </span><b>tomorrow, September 15th</b> to protest the recent presidential decision about DACA. </span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">CLUV is planning a demonstration during </span><b>3rd period, Friday</b>, in which students and staff will be invited to leave classrooms and join them on the courtyard, at which time they will be given directions about how to safely join in a human chain around the school to show support for undocumented students. </span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Their original plan included 2nd period as well, and we worked with the students to scale back to one period only. We are feeling the tension of keeping students safe and in classes, while also appreciating the need that many feel for an outlet to demonstrate and respond to the actions of this presidential administration. It is our preference that students stay on or near campus as they protest. Rather than leaving for the day as has happened in the past, we would anticipate that students will be back and in classes for the remainder of Friday afternoon.</span></span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">As for practicalities, the admin team has identified teachers on every floor of every building who will stay behind and welcome any students who choose not to participate. We know from experience that not all students or teachers will choose to join in the action, and that is okay. Students who do choose to participate in this one-period demonstration can be marked absent tomorrow for third period. We are not able to excuse absences for this event, and ask students to consider that when making a choice about whether to join in the demonstration tomorrow. </span></span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">We understand that any sort of walkout and missed class raises anxiety and concern for families. My commitment to you is to communicate about what we know and how we make plans in these kinds of situations to support students and staff. Teaching and learning in our current political reality is most certainly not business as usual; there are helicopters overhead for the events tonight at UC Berkeley as I write this. These are not easy or simple things to manage, and I speak on behalf of the entire admin team when I say that we are proud of our students’ passion and mindful of our responsibility to guide them and keep them safe.</span></span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Thank you,</span></span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>
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