Courtesy of The Grio
With just one day until the fate of school closings is known in the third-largest district in the nation, students have joined their parents and teachers in protest and raised their voices in opposition to the mass shutter.
Heralded as the future mayor of Chicago in the year 2025, 9-year-old Asean Johnson, has spoken at school board meetings and hearings, and fired up a crowd of hundreds in a protest against school closings Monday that concluded three days of marches on the city’s South and West sides.
“I wanted to be there to support my school and for the other schools that are closing, because really, I think that no school should be closing,” he told theGrio.
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