Brooklyn students hold mass walkout, protest education system
Brooklyn Students hold mass walk-out, then rally and teach-ins at Fort Green Park
Brooklyn Students hold mass walk-out, then rally and teach-ins at Fort Green Park
Posted: Thursday, May 3, 2012 4:45 pm
Although Paul Robeson High School is slated to be phased out and replaced by 2014 due to poor performance, its students have not stopped fighting for their education. In early April, Paul Robeson students called for a mass student walkout on May 1, a day historically designated to fight for labor and immigrant workers’ rights that originated in the United States and has spread around the world.
“Dear New York City, we the students of public education are here to inform you about the injustice that is taking place in our school system,” reads the initial letter and call to action, signed by the Student Leadership of Paul Robeson High School and posted on YouTube. “The privatization of our school system, the budget cuts, lack of appropriate leadership, malicious closings/phasing out of schools against the communities’ wishes, cellphone policies,