Watertown Middle School Placed on 'Lock and Hold' During Planned Student Protest
About 200 students gathered outside after the board voted 7-1 to bar the band from playing Omar Thomas’s piece.
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Middle school students walk out in protest of song removal in Watertown
WATERTOWN, Wis – Students at Riverside Middle School walked out of school on Friday, May 15. The walk out comes after the Watertown School Board voted to remove a song from the High School’s spring band concert. The instrumental song the School Board removed honors LGBTQ activist Marsha P. Johnson. Riverside Middle School administration became aware of student protest efforts early Friday morning. In response, leadership at the school placed the…
Wisconsin students walk out after song cut from concert over Marsha P. Johnson dedication
This story originally appeared on Them. UPDATE 5/13/26: Students in Watertown, Wisconsin staged a walkout on Wednesday after the school board voted to remove a piece of music dedicated to beloved transgender organizer Marsha P. Johnson from the school’s upcoming spring concert.Local ABC affiliate WISN reported that hundreds of students left class and staged a protest outside of Watertown High School on Wednesday. With signs like “It’s just music…
Watertown middle school placed on 'lock and hold' during planned student protest
WATERTOWN, Wis. Riverside Middle School in Watertown was placed on a "cautionary lock and hold" during a planned student protest on Friday.In a message to parents, the school said it had been made aware "of a rumor that impacts student safety outside of the building" during the planned walkout.The school has been placed on a "lock and hold," which keeps students with their classes in the building.TMJ4's Megan Lee reported she heard an announceme…
'Ending Indoctrination': Watertown Students Stage Major Walkout Over School Board LGBTQ+ Song Ban
Hundreds of Watertown High School students abandoned their classrooms in a massive demonstration on Wednesday to protest the removal of an instrumental musical composition with LGBTQ+ historical ties. The coordinated walkout, organised largely by students themselves, followed a contentious school board decision that abruptly struck the piece from an upcoming spring performance programme and ignited a wider debate over control of classroom cultur…
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