Detroit Students Go to School for One Day

Teachers vow to hold ground until salary demands are met.

Detroit

The educational prospects of some 120,000 students who attend Detroit public schools continued to hang in the balance last week, as a teachers’ strike rolled past the opening day of school and district officials canceled classes indefinitely.

While harried principals here tried to do multiple jobs, disappointed children urged their picketing teachers to come back to class, and parents expressed frustration over the delay in resolving the dispute.

“Nobody wants to lose money; I certainly understand that. But our children also need teachers in the classrooms,” said Principal Nazarene Banks of Lodge Elementary School on the first and only day of school, as she stood in front of a plaque...