Some students at the rally were there for the spectacle of the thing, and not all were in agreement with presenters' dire warnings. The assembly of students was intermittently interrupted by well-ordered lines of young children dutifully following their teachers as they calmly tried to navigate their way to and from the legislative building through the glut of shouting college students. Those children, easily ten years or more younger than their boisterous college counterparts, were participating in Charter School Day at the General Assembly. Charter-school proponents were at the legislature to ask lawmakers to repeal the law capping the number of charter schools at 100. The charter school students watched the protest with interest, though they didn't seem to grasp what it was about.
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