Hong Kong students skip school to join anti-bill protest

Students from over 230 high schools boycotted their classes on Monday to join the months-long protest against a controversial extradition bill and alleged police brutality, according to a student strike organizer.Hundreds if not thousands of the students, some wearing their school uniforms, rallied under torrential rain at Edinburgh Place in central Hong Kong, instead of meeting new classmates on the first day of the new school year, to show solidarity with the movement.According to strike organizer Issac Cheng of youth group Demosisto, some 4,000 students turned out over six hours."Our sch…READ FULL ARTICLE