School Information System: Detroit High School Protest: Students Suspended After Demanding 'An Education'

April 2, 2012

Detroit High School Protest: Students Suspended After Demanding 'An Education'

About 50 high school students at Frederick Douglass Academy in Detroit were suspended Thursday after walking out of classes to protest a host of issues at the all-boys school.

The concerns included a lack of consistent teachers and the removal of the principal.

The boys, dressed in school blazers, neckties and hoodies, chanted, "We want education!" as they marched outside the school.

Parents organized the walkout because they fear for the school's future. As recently as last month, students spent weeks passing time in the gym, library or cafeteria due to a lack of teachers, parents said.

Worries escalated after district offices moved into part of the building in January, and the school was not listed as an application school for next year. Current students had to apply to attend Douglass.q

More, here.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at April 2, 2012 2:57 AM
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Some of us see charter schools as the cure for failure of students to learn. It seems to me that we have been experimenting with charter schools in Milwaukee for years without realizing a cure. I feel its time to hold a National discussion on the correlation between poor parenting and failure of students to learn. Certainly there are parents that parents that are resposable but I feel too many are impaired,unable to parent,how can we help them to resposably parent? Enough spending money on more of the same,more merit pay programs that havent worked in the public or private sector etc.

Posted by: william.p rowe at April 9, 2012 2:45 AM