Detroit’s main public school district opened classrooms for in-person summer learning on Monday. While the district says it took safety precautions to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, the first 2 days of classes were met with protests.
The district is taking safety measures, including limiting class sizes to 15 students, checking temperatures of all students and staff members and cleaning all schools daily, Vitti said. Teachers have been tested for the virus, but students have not — in part because some parents said they didn’t want their children tested and in part because the district doesn't have access to enough tests that could quickly return a result, he said.
“I was honestly about to change my mind,” she said. “But then I’m like, OK, she got to go back to school at some point. I had to get past it.” “There’s been a rise lately in the state. It’s just not wise,” he said. “I certainly understand the district’s response to parents saying ‘We want our kids to have an opportunity and we don't want them to come into the next school year at a deficit.’” But he thinks online classes would be safer.
Civil rights lawyer Shanta Driver, the national chair of the activist organization By Any Means Necessary, which led the protests at the bus depot Monday and Tuesday, said she planned to file a discrimination claim on behalf of Detroit children in the state’s Court of Claims on Tuesday against district and state officials and planned to seek an injunction to force the district to close summer school.
“We don’t need another racist attack against Detroit or for Detroit to be used this summer as a Tuskegee experiment to determine whether or not schools can reopen in the fall.” “I don’t want to see my child on a ventilator,” Siebert, a father of four, said, “and I don't want to see somebody else’s child on a ventilator.”
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