some stories leave a mark on the people who hear them. but also on the people who tell them. some stories we tell here on this show end up leaving a mark on us. as individuals and us as a show. and a few years ago we got one of those. we brought you the story of katherine ferguson academy. one of a kind public school that specifically served pregnant girls and young mothers with young kids in detroit, michigan. the school specializes in sending girls to college after they graduate and in teaching them farming of all things while they re still in high school in the middle of detroit. katherine ferguson has a farm on site in inner city detroit. and they, with that land and those animals, and that educational mission for the girls, they have been an oasis inside that city for generations of young women. an oasis where the young women could do well and a place that really expected them to do well. high standard. also the help to make it happen.
last year a group of students sued the school. funding dropped. enrollment dropped. detroit was emptying out. and so to some extent was katherine ferguson. well to day we learned that katherine ferguson academy is closing. i think this time really closing. the board in charge of the school vo school voted to end the contract with the district. there are not enough schools. they will start a new school, to serve young mothers of detroit who have for three decades have pursued katherine ferguson academy with their garden, goats and babies all in one place and with the expectation that they will all go to college. the last day at katherine ferguson is june 30th. this has been a very long fight for them. and maybe they just could not, or did not want to keep fighting. i ve don t know. just as i, i don t know what is best for detroit. or what is possible there. we do know the story of the young moms. the way they fought for themselves. it left a mark on us as a show. and you have told us th
as individuals and us as a show. and a few years ago we got one of those. we brought you the story of katherine ferguson academy. one of a kind public school that specifically served pregnant girls and young mothers with young kids in detroit, michigan. the school specializes in sending girls to college after they graduate and in teaching them farming of all things while they re still in high school in the middle of detroit. katherine ferguson has a farm on site in inner city detroit. and they, with that land and those animals, and that educational mission for the girls, they have been an oasis inside that city for generations of young women. an oasis where the young women could do well and a place that really expected them to do well. high standard. also the help to make it happen. i want everybody to have the same opportunity that i had. i got out of here. i want you to graduate the same way i did. i have two kids. you can make it with one, two, however many you got.
the board in charge of the school voted to end the contract with the district. there are not enough schools. they will start a new school, to serve young mothers of detroit who have for three decades have pursued katherine ferguson academy with their garden, goats and babies all in one place and with the expectation that they will all go to college. the last day at katherine ferguson is june 30th. this has been a very long fight for them. and maybe they just could not, or did not want to keep fighting. i ve don t know. just as i, i don t know what is best for detroit. or what is possible there. we do know the story of the young moms. the way they fought for themselves. it left a mark on us as a show. and you have told us that their story left a mark on you. we have, in the entire time we have been on the air, five years, we have heard more from you, the viewers, on this story an anything else we have ever done on this program. i thought you would want to know how it is coming to an end
emergency powers and could do anything he wanted purely on his own say so. he wanted the school closed. it would close. he said it would close. at least it looked like it would close. he had not counted on the young women of katherine ferguson. what they re doing here is painting signs. they stage aid very dramatic sit-in at their own school. in april 2011 including some graduates of the school coming back to take part. they said they would not leave the school unless the police hauled them out. [ sirens sounding ] [ bleep ] [ crowd chanting ] [ bleep ] [ bleep ]. you almost could not hear the girls voices as they chanted over the police sirens as they were being handcuffed and arrest