I remember participating in that and I remember going up in this hearing and going in and them asking us, why we had walked out and we told them why. And then they asked us if we had any regrets and if we were sorry and we said, "No." And that was the end of that. And basically, they said you are free to go. They couldn't accept us and that was it.

I remember that other parents were going in there and they were telling their kids, "you better apologize and you better go in there and tell them what they want to hear." And that kind of thing. And some parents, they would be crying. And two students were crying. I remember a parent slapping a student when we were out front and we were still walking around, because the mother was trying to drag her daughter out of the group and bring her back into school.

My mother was basically the opposite. She basically was bringing us boxes of sandwiches and soda that she and some of her friends were making for the boycotting students.

My brother, Lupe, had dropped out of school. But he identified with what we were doing, so he was out there. Out there parked with his Mustang and encouraging, egging the students on... to go for it, to continue the demonstration. So you had those, then you had the students and then you had the Peñas. And they were walking, and other families, many other families were supporting the students themselves.