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A student’s MTA protest yields to broader education critique

Jaritza Geigel, a student organizer with Make the Road New York and the Urban Youth Collaborative, led a walkout to protest cuts to student subway access.

As part of a blog post about the walkout for EdVox, Jaritza also added this overall sense of the state of education in the city:

We are done having Mayor Bloomberg close down schools, which only increase over-crowding; we are done having funds removed overnight from our schools; we are done seeing valuable teachers laid off; we are done being treated like criminals; and we will not tolerate the mayor’s silence on this issue.

  • ???

    Jaritza Geigel. You and all of your peer student leaders who speak truth to power are way ahead of your time. You are the difference makers.

  • QueensParent

    Just wait until he gets a job and starts paying taxes. He will be even angrier.

  • Peter

    Now if he spends the summer registering new voters … he could truly make an impact. In many communities of color the primary day turnouts are sparse, a few hundred new voters would make a huge difference.

  • Jaritza Geigel

    Thank you for the comments on this and thank you for Gothem schools site for putting this up on their site. Being a graduate of the public school system with more support and understanding of what students are doing I believe that the young people will be encouraged to take more of a leadership role in being PRO active with their government.

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