Chicagoan Asean Johnson, a 9-year-old student at Marcus Garvey Elementary, took mayor Rahm Emanuel to task over the impending school closings during a rally.

Emanuel plans to shut down 54 schools – 53 elementary schools and a high school – by late August.

If carried out, it will be the largest mass closing by a school district in U.S. history, according to Reuters.

Johnson says the closings will put thousands of children in harm’s way.

“Rahm Emanuel thinks that we are all toys,” Johnson said. “He think he can just come into our schools and move all our kids all over gang lines and say, ‘Oh… let’s take this school out. We don’t care about these kids.’ But there are kids in there. They need safety. Rahm Emanuel is not caring about our schools. He is not caring about our safety. He is only caring about his kids. He is only caring about what he needs. He don’t care about nobody else, but himself.

“They need safety,” he continued. “They need protection. You should be investing in the schools, not closing them. You should be supporting these schools, not closing them.”

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