A few days ago, I posted something here on the site about a mass walkout that took place last week at Western International High School in Southwest Detroit. As you may recall, several hundred students left their classes, demanding an end to the seemingly-endless cutbacks that are adversely affecting their educational opportunities. Well, the students […]
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Greg Pratt reports from the Southwest Detroit Freedom School
Posted in Civil Liberties, Detroit, Education Also tagged Clark Park, Detroit Public Schools, Greg Pratt, Roy Roberts, Southwest Detroit Freedom School 12 Comments
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!”
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 […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Detroit, Education, Uncategorized Also tagged Catherine Ferguson Academy, Clark Park, demands, Detroit Public Schools, Freddie Burse, Frederick Douglass Academy, free school, Maybury Elementary, Occupy Ypsilanti, poetry, Raychel Gafford, Roy Roberts, school closings, social justice, Southwest Detroit, Southwest Detroit Freedom School, Steve Wasko, students, the challenges of urban students, we need a revolution 16 Comments