To try and ease tensions, school superintendent Kenneth Underwood closed schools for a few days. On September 12, the school board temporarily removed all the new books and created a committee of 18 citizens to review them. But the compromise didn’t work. Protesters still kept their children home. At the same time, 1,200 students at George Washington High School (pictured) were angry about what they saw as censorship, so they walked out and shut down their own school, demanding the books be brought back.