Increasing, we’re seeing students in Detroit step-up and fight for the educations that they’re entitled to as American citizens. Every few weeks, it seems, there’s a different battle being waged. If it’s not kids being arrested for protesting the closing of their schools, it’s kids being suspended for having the audacity to demand that they […]
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Students at Detroit’s Western High School walk out over planned school closings and cuts in education funding, chanting “They sat cut back! We say fight back!”
Posted in Civil Liberties, Detroit, Education, Uncategorized Also tagged Catherine Ferguson Academy, Clark Park, demands, Detroit Public Schools, Freddie Burse, free school, Maybury Elementary, Occupy Ypsilanti, poetry, Raychel Gafford, Roy Roberts, school closings, social justice, Southwest Detroit, Southwest Detroit Freedom School, Southwestern High School, Steve Wasko, students, the challenges of urban students, we need a revolution 16 Comments
The apparent end of public education as we know it in Philadelphia
We’ve talked at length on this site, over the past several years, about the coordinated campaign to dismantle public education in the United States. Sadly, Michigan is often at the forefront of this national conservative movement. Images of pregnant teenage girls being arrested as they try to keep their schools from closing and boys picketing […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Education, Politics Also tagged Al Sharpton, Ben Jealous, Bill Gates, Bush tax cuts, Catherine Ferguson Academy for Young Women, charter schools, education reform, Gates Foundation, Good Morning America is crap, Grover Norquist, Philadelphia, public education, starve the beast, Thomas Knudsen, wealth inequality 38 Comments
50 Detroit high school students suspended for having the audacity to demand “An Education”
The following story, regarding a student protest at Detroit’s Frederick Douglass Academy, which resulted in the suspension of 50 students on Thursday, ran yesterday on FOX 2 News. When asked by the Detroit Free Press why he was marching in front of the school, senior Tevin Hill said, “Right now, I’m not going to be […]
Posted in Detroit, Education, Uncategorized Also tagged call to action, Catherine Ferguson Academy, Catherine Ferguson Academy for Young Women, dismantling of public education, domestic terrorism, Hutaree, prison industrial complex, public education, racism, sedition, tax the rich, Tevin Hill, the growing gap between rich and poor, trends in American education 16 Comments