An eighth grade charter school teacher in Michigan has been fired after
helping her students organize a fundraiser for Trayvon Martin’s parents.
Brooke Harris and her students at Pontiac Academy for Excellence drew
up a plan to raise money by donating one dollar each to wear a hoodie to
school, as Martin had worn when he was shot dead. She obtained
permission for the fundraiser, but her superintendent opposed the plan.
Harris was initially suspended and then later fired without explanation.
"They didn’t want to walk out of class. They didn’t want to wear the
hoods over their head. They just wanted to pay a dollar to wear their
regular clothes instead of uniform and donate that money to someone else
who they saw needed it," Harris says. "I just wanted to know what I
specifically did wrong, so I could learn from my alleged mistake and be
sure never to do that again."Video
Source: Democracy Now!
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