Dozens of Douglass Academy high schoolers suspended after protesting lack of teachers
Seniors from Frederick Douglass Academy gather on 14th Street in Detroit on Thursday, March 29, 2012, after staging a walkout to protest administrative problems. / Andre J. Jackson/ Detroit Free Press
About 50 high school students at Frederick Douglass Academy in Detroit were suspended today after walking out of classes to protest a lack of consistent teachers, the removal of the principal and a host of other administrative problems at the all-boys school.
The students were chanting "We want education!"
Parents organized the walkout because they fear for the school’s future. This year, as recently as last month, students spent weeks passing time in the gym 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