Students who will be placed in these 'team centers' as the superintendent calls them, will watch classes via Zoom and complete assignments, but protesters believe libraries shouldn't be removed to do so.
Several activists and community leaders gather outside of HISD to protest the decision to remove libraries to make disciplinary centers.Community members and elected officials gathered outside Houston Independent School District headquarters on Saturday morning to protest Superintendent Mike Miles' decision to turn libraries into what critics call disciplinary centers.
Under the new system, some of the schools in the HISD system will no longer have librarians and media specialists. Instead, the libraries will be turned into what Miles calls "team centers."Students placed in these centers for disciplinary actions will watch their class on Zoom and complete individual assignments. However, protesters said the district doesn't need to get rid of libraries to do this.
Former HISD librarian Cheryl Hensley spoke at the rally and said libraries are being dismantled. Hensley has worked in education for more than three decades. She said this would hurt students who don't have access to these resources outside of school. The rally was led by Congressman Al Green, elected state officials, the Houston Federation of Teachers, and the local NAACP chapter."The governor is in charge of this, the superintendent is his minister, but he gets all of his vision from the governor. This is the governor's vision," Congressman Green said.
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