Central Bucks Students To Lead Public Protest Against Policy 321

DOYLESTOWN, PA — A student-led protest against the Central Bucks School District's Policy 321 will take place on Friday, January 20 from 3 to 4 p.m. outside Central Bucks West High School, 375 W. Court Street, Doylestown 18901.

Students of all abilities and identities will be coming together "to stand behind our teachers, librarians and staff to celebrate our diversity – and demand our freedom to learn and be welcomed in our classrooms and hallways," said organizers.

According to the students organizing the protest, Policy 321 is part of escalating attacks and discrimination against LGBTQ+ students in the school district. "It is also part of the school board majority’s systematic attempts to ban, censor, and remove inclusion, support and safety from the classrooms," they said.

The school board earlier this month voted to approve Policy 321, which they said is aimed at bringing neutrality into the classrooms.

The protest is being timed to occur outside of one of the “town halls” being held by Superintendent Abe Lucabaugh who is defending the recently passed policy.

The policy, according to opponents, profoundly restricts what students and teachers can say, raise for discussion, assign, do, advocate for, and even put on the walls of the classroom for fear that it may be censored as “a social policy matter.”

"These policies are not leading the way, but we students are. Join us in our peaceful protest as we advocate for the freedom to teach, and the freedom to learn," said the students.