In Occupying Schools, Rio’s Students Get a Political Education
In Occupying Schools, Rio’s Students Get a Political Education
Students seized control of more than 70 high schools across the state of Rio de Janeiro until the government promised more investment in education.
Usually the challenge is to keep students in school. But 18-year-old Douglas Santana is one of thousands of teenagers from more than 70 high schools across the state of Rio de Janeiro who for months refused to go home until the government promised more investment in education.
A senior at Colégio Estadual Visconde de Cairu in the northern suburbs of the state capital, Santana slept every night in a classroom that looked like an army barracks. Behind a row of desks scattered with toiletries was a line of thin sleeping pads and blankets where he and others slept. An overhead window,...
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