Will Latino Students boycott School for a Day?

This caught my eye when I first saw it in a corner of the examiner.com. It’s just three paragraphs, more announcement that pronouncement, but it’s worth a follow.

The post says that a group of several, unnamed, national Latino civil rights organizations are planning a nation-wide school boycott for May 2, 2011. The idea is for all Latino students stay home from school on that target date in an effort to send a message: that not having Latinos in school hurts education.  The organizers, Chicanos Unidos Arizona,  believe that “by not showing up to school that day, we will show how the educational system can’t survive without Latinos.”

School funding is tied to student attendance, so the idea is to hurt school coffers by having Latino kids stay home and in the process demonstrate the importance of those same Latino kids to the national education industry.

I’m not sure that this thing will fly. I’m more skeptic than cynic on this. But May is six months away and anything can happen in that time.

What do yo think? Is is worth a try? Does it have a chance?