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New York high school students leave to protest COVID-19

Students walked out of class across town on Tuesday to protest school conditions amid an increase in coronavirus cases.

Participants left the buildings just before noon to push for distance learning options and more stringent testing procedures with COVID-19 cases.

Sources at several schools said administrators and teachers quietly signed the exit and told students they would not be subject to unwarranted absences.

Other school leaders did not sanction the protest and told students they would be duped for participating, sources said.

Attendance was particularly high in some of the city’s most exclusive university strongholds, including Brooklyn Tech High School, Stuyvesant, and Bronx Science.

“We don’t feel safe at school,” a Brooklyn Tech junior told the Post on Tuesday. “It’s about that simple. There are so many cases going around and we believe more should be done. “

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