Looks like Denver Public Schools poured gasoline on a fire.
— would quell outrage among students, their families and community members, they were wrong. And this time around, DPS is the unmistakable target of frustration over the situation.
scheduled to get underway at 4:30 p.m., with a public-comments opportunity set for 5:45 p.m."We're going to let them know this problem is about more than Mr. Hernández," she notes."This is district-wide.". "The majority of students in Denver are students of color, and more than 50 percent of them are Latino," she told earlier this week."But the percentage of Latino teachers doesn't come close to that.
What hasn't been mentioned in most coverage of the Hernández matter is that Wolf won't be returning to North High School next year — and the decision was made well before the current controversy.
The decision to put Hernández on administrative leave for the remainder of the academic year"has made students a hundred times more frustrated," López maintains."That's why we're walking out. We have our voices pushed aside, no matter how loud we are. The school always says they're inclusive and stuff like that, but if they were inclusive, we wouldn't have so many teachers stepping down because of racial trauma.
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