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Columbine High School protests
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Columbine High School protests is a series of protests that is still ongoing.
The protests began on Monday, September 22, 2014, at Evergreen, Standley Lake and Conifer High Schools against the new Advanced Placement history curriculum. Next day the protests began at Pomona and Arvada, and Ralston Valley High Schools and have spread to Columbine soon after following the election of new school board was elected which was combined out of three conservative bodies such as Julie Williams, John Newkirk and the board’s chairman, Ken Witt. Following the election, the chairman have appointed Dan McMinimee who wasn't welcomed by the majority due to his neglect on bailing out of two charter schools. Besides the unwelcomed superintendent, the students there also protested the new ruling by the lawmakers to teach the future by erasing the past in Advanced Placement classes of U.S. history. Later on it grew to 200 and by the end of the week it grew to 1,000 when Columbine and Dakota Ridge high schools walked out together for a demonstration on Kipling Street. While demonstrating, students skipped lunch and free time and were even honked by motorcycle drivers from Lakewood High. On September 25, the school's superintendent's children were threatened by the demonstrators. The report was investigated but wasn't disclosed by Jacki Kelly.
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