Dozens of students at Phylis Wheatley High School in Houston’s Fifth Ward staged a walkout on Thursday. Their reason? The alleged firing/transfer of a vice-principal.
Students had been planning the walkout since Wednesday night according to social media posts. Walker, who had been at Wheatley since 1977 had been previously transferred in 2011 but a successful protest by students and parents prompted her rehire by the school nine days after she was transferred.