Cook said many students at West Side faced humiliation because they didn't have anything clean to wear.
So when school starts September 4, there will be a new facility in the building: a free laundromat.
Students pick out their favorite detergent in the new laundry room.
Kids who could not afford to wash their clothes faced intense teasing when they showed up in dirty outfits.
He saw the posts and quickly suspected that the bullying was a top reason why 85% of his students chronically missed school.
Student Rah-Asia Marrow stocks the shelves with donated laundry detergent for the student laundromat at West Side High School.
Principal Akbar Cook poses with a few of the graduating students of the West Side High School class of 2018. »