CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- After a week of student protests at Lincoln Park High School, parents are now joining in.
There have been walkouts, sit-ins, and staff shakeups in the week since Chicago Public Schools announced it was removing three administrators from the school.
Interim Principal John Thuett, Assistant Principal Michelle Brumfeld, and Dean John Johnson were all removed from the school in the wake of an allegation of sexual misconduct involving the boy's basketball team during a trip to Detroit in late December.
Since then, more allegations have come out, and the Inspector General's office confirmed there are five investigations into incidents at the school, ranging from improper discipline to sexual misconduct.
Members of the Local School Council at Lincoln Park High School met outside the building Friday morning to ask for a meeting with Mayor Lightfoot and Chicago Public Schools CEO Janice Jackson.
"We as the representatives of the community want to be apart of the process and if those leaders are not the right leaders for us, we want to make sure we find the right ones, but we feel 100 percent confident in what we know today that Thuett, Brumfield, and Johnson are the right folks for our school," he said.
LSC member and parent Marybeth Jones said she has been a CPS parent for 17 years and she said all three deserve to be reinstated.
"I have not only never experienced administrators who are as phenomenal as Mr. Thuett, Ms. Brumfield, and Mr. Johnson, but I have never experienced this type of chaos," she said.
But she said she was cautiously optimistic that their voices will be heard.
"I am hopeful they will be responsive to this. My past experience is oftentimes that they are not. They like to wear us down and hope we go away," Jones said.