[micdotcom]

Detroit teachers stage “sickout” over horrible conditions, force schools to close

Eighty-eight of Detroit’s 97 public schools were closed Wednesday when teachers participated in a districtwide “sickout” to push for demands related to school conditions and their rights as employees. The protests align with a very high profile visitor in Detroit.

[rudegyalchina]

Omg

[browngxrl]

PLEASE continue to share images like this. White people refuse to acknowledge the reality of others until it’s shoved in their faces.

[bishopmyles]

What’s crazy is it’s been like this since I was a child and prolly even before that.. My mother is a DPS school teacher and ain’t much changed, if anything things have gotten worse. She’s been buying school supplies for her students for as long as I can remember.

[diligenda]

 And please look into the lawsuit against Detroit Public Schools in which the state position is “no fundamental right to literacy exists for Detroit schoolchildren.”

The state is currently in court defending these conditions, as well as their right not give our children access to proper education.