Standing Against Privatization: Puerto Rico's Teachers Strike

Teachers have gone on strike to protest the privatization of the educational system and its accompanying mass school closures. “We are not objects,” said one parent. “We are not furniture that can be moved from place to place. We are not boxes to be consolidated. We are human beings who cannot just be uprooted without consequence. Our children have already been traumatized by the hurricane, and now Secretary Keleher is traumatizing them all over again.”

Published on

Aug 14, 2018




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