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Two New Mexico high school students who organized what became thousands of kids to walk out of class this week appeared on national TV Thursday to explain why they did it — and describe the ugly reality that is Common Core.
“I don’t think we knew quite the capacity to which there would be that many people,” Guiney told co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck.
“We thought maybe 100, or 150 would come out. But by the end of the day we had over 300 people and that was really good to have all that support out there. It was nice to not be alone in that.”
“We weren’t the only ones,” Bentham-Grey said. “Almost every other school in our district also had walkouts that day.”
“There’s only a language arts and a math section,” she said. “And even within the language arts section they leave out creative writing and literature altogether.”
