![]() Just imagine the profound and unknown effect that the past two years have had on the graduating Class of ’22 seniors! The events of the past two years have challenged our LT community. The internet and streaming video have multiplied the impact of current events as never before. Moreover, we are living in a heightened political environment that is pitting the right vs the left in many different ways. Ironically enough, that life-changing crisis is lessening now after two years, just as a new crisis escalates with the very disturbing Russian invasion of Ukraine. As it turns out, that letter dealt with the trauma COVID-19 was having on our high school, our current LT students, and all of you. I just did so by using my March 2020 letter as a template, so I naturally noticed the content of that message. Mendoza has been trying to implement a Turning Point USA chapter at the school for the last year and said it was denied due to “false information.” The organization, known for advocating for conservative values on high school and college campuses across the country, has received backlash for promoting white nationalist ideals.Ĭonversely, Sheri Zierdt, a Chinese American parent from Western Springs, stressed the importance of continuing the district’s equity work, citing her own experience being on the receiving end of derogatory racial comments while growing up.When I prepare to write my quarterly newsletter, I sometimes just pull up a previous letter as a template to save time writing my introduction and closing. “Equity and belonging means for all, not just students of color - it’s all students.” “One year since we hired an equity director, we have seen more division, more hate - we saw it in the viral video of a student that was attacked brutally because of the color of her skin,” Mendoza added. Leslie Mendoza, a senior at LTHS, chimed in, saying, “people used to get along - there was no color, no such thing as equity and belonging.” Towne said her two older children graduated from LTHS during a time where, “nobody talked about what color skin they had.” “Many of us think is not an effective program and despite the fact that you may think it is, there are a lot of us that don’t and we saw what happened in the viral video that went all over social media when that attack occurred in the school halls,” said Janelle Towne, Western Springs chapter chair for nonprofit, Awake Illinois. ![]()
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