Overview
- KOCO reports 122 Mustang students received in-school suspension after leaving class for an anti-ICE walkout, a figure Gov. Kevin Stitt praised publicly.
- The district says the protest was student-led and not school-sponsored, and families were warned that leaving class would carry consequences.
- Administrators emphasized that discipline addressed truancy, not viewpoints, noting students missed roughly one to four hours of instruction.
- Cases were reviewed individually with factors such as prior attendance considered before assigning in-school suspension.
- State education leaders say they are monitoring the situation and have found no evidence schools organized or endorsed the demonstrations, while the ACLU of Oklahoma reiterated that free-speech rights persist but do not excuse absences.