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Brooklyn Students Arrested During Protest for Cellphones

An AP newswire article, via The Globe and Mail, reports that:

A protest by teenage students upset with slow security procedures and a ban on cellphones at their schools resulted in five arrests on Wednesday.

About 150 Brooklyn students walked out of their classes early and rallied for an hour outside the Secondary Schools for Law, Research and Journalism starting around 1 p.m., said the law school's principal, Larry Woodbridge.

Many of the students jumped up and down on the sidewalk, waved signs and chanted, "We want cellphones!" They said it's unfair they're not allowed to take their property to school and they need the cellphones for emergencies.

posted by Fergie @ 4/13/2006 11:33:00 AM