Sentences with phrase «protest by middle school»

After watching a protest by middle school students demanding better education grow into a national strike that shut down the country's education system for months, Adelman says she realized where her work would take her.

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I wonder if it has ever occurred to the middle class kids who are organizing these protests that while they have the luxury of saying no to school food, there are other kids who rely on it for a substantial part of their daily nutrition, and who are being put in the unpleasant position of having to choose between being cool [by joining everyone else in the boycott] and being hungry?

This year, advocates of neighborhood schools are protesting plans by Washington Global, a charter middle school approved in May, to open less than a half - mile from Jefferson Middle School, near L'Enfant middle school approved in May, to open less than a half - mile from Jefferson Middle School, near L'Enfant school approved in May, to open less than a half - mile from Jefferson Middle School, near L'Enfant Middle School, near L'Enfant School, near L'Enfant Plaza.

It's hard to imagine public authorities closing down 50 schools largely populated by middle class Euro - Americans; but this policy was enacted in the largely black and Latino district of Chicago, and it was done in the face of strong protests by the community.