AR Times: “Over time, Central High School students have been known to speak out against injustice: We see it as vital that students work together to ensure their voices are heard. Whenever we talk about the LEARNS Act and different education legislation coming from the Republican Party, we typically say that they are attacking our public education system. We frame it in this way because we see that the policies we take issue with are part of a broader plan to deconstruct the educational system to reshape the young workforce into subservience. This is a deliberate effort from the wealthiest members of our society to deconstruct our existing institutions for the sake of rebuilding them with a higher concentration of power at the top….
Little Rock Central High School has a deep history of advocating for equality, and we will not accept our public schools being reduced to a correctional facility program aimed at people of lower economic positions and people of color. These policies of erasure and segregation are dehumanizing. The government views our children with contempt and as a statistic — we deserve better. “