Hyde Park Academy Students Slam School For Ending 'Peace Room' Partnership Amid Tragedies

Hyde Park high schoolers protest removal of community groups that supported students through traumatic year

Hyde Park Academy recently booted out two community groups that provided staff to help students keep calm and resolve conflicts. Students say it’s an especially bad time to lose extra support because they’re still processing the deaths of several classmates.

Hyde Park Academy Students Slam School For Ending 'Peace Room' Partnership Amid Tragedies

WOODLAWN — South Side students who recently lost three classmates to crashes and gun violence say they were blindsided by their principal’s abrupt decision to end partnerships with community groups at a time when they need more resources, not fewer. Hyde Park Academy, 6220 S. Stony Island Ave. in Woodlawn, has for several years hosted a “peace room” in partnership with community organizations Southside Together and GoodKids MadCity. The peace ro…

Hyde Park Academy students protest removal of community groups after classmates' deaths

Students at Hyde Park Academy gathered outside their school Thursday to protest the principal’s decision to expel two community organizations that had provided support services to students in the weeks after three classmates died.