100 Inglewood Students Stage Walkout
About 100 Latino students walked out of Inglewood High School on Thursday to support a Latino gang counselor who they mistakenly thought had been fired, school officials said.
The students returned to class when district officials told them the popular counselor had not been fired.
The students, who left classes about 12:45 p.m., walked to the headquarters of the Inglewood Unified School District several blocks away to protest the dismissal of Hector Acosta, an outreach counselor assigned to several district campuses.
Officials, including Principal Kenneth Crowe, met with student leaders and told them that although Acosta and an assistant principal at the school had had a disagreement, Acosta was not being fired, said district spokesman Maurice Wiley.
“They were very orderly,” Wiley said. “The whole thing was based on misinformation.”
Students will not be disciplined as a result of the incident, Crowe said.
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