“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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