Pendleton Protests

The students at Pendleton Heights High School are protesting the fact that they will not be showing President Obama's speech during school. They were given a letter Friday giving them reasons they would not be allowed to watch the speech when it aired, and now some students are taking action.

Their Facebook group "Obama's Speech Protest" currently has 42 confirmed protesters. The information in their group discription is:

"Obama's education speech is for us but our school didn’t let us have any say in whether we watched it or not. We were allowed to watch the inauguration but we can’t watch his speech (which they even explained as a historical event in the newsletter). Even if you don’t like President Obama or don’t really care about hearing the speech it’s the fact that we had no say in something that was planed for us. Not only that but they passed out papers at the end of the day on Friday when the speech is planed for the next school day. Obviously they did that on purpose so we wouldn’t have time to do anything about it.

If you want to help support after third period on Tuesday we are meeting in the main hallway and sitting on the floor. We are going to sit there until they let us watch the speech."

Watch the INDY TV News report on said protest.