A group of students at Elmira District Secondary School are speaking out after they say the school’s Remembrance Day commemorations were scaled back.

“People do have relatives who served in the world wars and who still serve now and they are passionate about it just because they don’t want those people to go forgotten,” says Matt LaLonde, a student council member.

In the past, EDSS has marked Remembrance Day with a full assembly, but this year, the school decided to change things up.

On Monday, there will be a 15-minute presentation over the PA system.

School officials tell CTV News the service was organized by students, and will include music, short stories and a moment of silence.

But some students believe it’s not enough, and launched a Facebook group over the weekend calling for a protest.

Some of the people CTV News spoke with say they were told the school could only have one assembly per month, and November’s would focus on drug awareness.

The board, for its part, says there may have been some confusion on that point, noting there is no limit to the number of gatherings.

Elaine Ranney, superintendent of education at the Waterloo Region District School Board, adds that while all schools are expected to stop and commemorate Remembrance Day, the details are left to the each institution.