Post by Logan on Jan 20, 2016 16:39:57 GMT -6
DETROIT (AP) -- Faced with another massive sick-out by teachers, the Detroit school district filed a lawsuit Wednesday to try to stop absences that have kept thousands of students at home and left parents scrambling for child care and other quick remedies.
The latest sick-out shuttered more than 85 of the struggling district's roughly 100 schools and was timed to coincide with a visit to the city by President Barack Obama.
Temperatures in the teens appeared to have kept most students indoors, and all Wednesday's protest - and one last week - did for Carnisha Wesley, 23, was to make her late for her own classes. Wesley had to scramble to find a sitter for her 5-year-old daughter, Myajai, as Ann Arbor Trail school was closed.
"It's inconvenient. It makes me a little late for school when I have to find someone to watch her," said Wesley, a pharmacy tech student at the Everest Institute's Detroit campus.
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The latest sick-out shuttered more than 85 of the struggling district's roughly 100 schools and was timed to coincide with a visit to the city by President Barack Obama.
Temperatures in the teens appeared to have kept most students indoors, and all Wednesday's protest - and one last week - did for Carnisha Wesley, 23, was to make her late for her own classes. Wesley had to scramble to find a sitter for her 5-year-old daughter, Myajai, as Ann Arbor Trail school was closed.
"It's inconvenient. It makes me a little late for school when I have to find someone to watch her," said Wesley, a pharmacy tech student at the Everest Institute's Detroit campus.
Continued at hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_DETROIT_SCHOOLS_MIOL-?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2016-01-20-16-25-30 .