Around 50 students turned out to protest against the closure of their school last night.
Students from Muine Bheag Vocational School in Baganalstown in Carlow took part in the protest after a meeting between parents and a representative of the ETB.
6th year student Jennifer Clarke is Head Girl at the school.
She told Beat News that the students are doing everything they can to avoid the closure:
"We have facebook pages, snapchat, we are doing online petitions, going around to various towns getting people to sign. This is all the students, we organised for some councillors and teachers to come in.
It's the students who want this more than anything, we can just let this happen."
Parents of students at Muine Bheag Vocational School in Carlow last night walked out of the meeting with a representative from the ETB.
They took the action after they were unsatisfied with the answers being offered from ETB rep Eileen Curtis.
Ms Curtis came to meet parents to clarify the situation surrounding the closure.
One of those parents, Lorraine Ryan, told Beat News the handling of the situation was 'disgraceful' and that it has impacted on her own daughter:
"My daughter cried herself to sleep last Thursday night, she couldn't go on the school bus the following morning she was so upset that morning. I drove her into school and she cried the whole way into school and later on that morning I got a call from the school saying she was upset again.
But she's not the only one, they're all the same , they cannot concentrate on anything in school at the moment because they're just worrying about the school and being separated from their friends in years to come. You know, they've settled in here lovely and it's a beautiful school."
