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Article: Derrick Z. JacksonA child uprising on education
- Article from:
- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- September 29, 2009
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SOME OF THE most courageous actions for equality in the United
States and South Africa have come from children - from the
thousands who marched in Birmingham, only to have been met with fire
hoses and police attack dogs, to the students who integrated
Southern schools to the Soweto child uprising over the brutalities
of apartheid.
Now children are teaching new lessons in South Africa. Last week,
thousands marched peacefully outside Cape Town City Hall demanding
better schools, libraries, quality teachers, and teachers who simply
show up for work. The New York Times featured a school in a Cape
Town township where the students were teaching themselves because of
chronic absenteeism and ...