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June Event to honor students and volunteers in programs
Dedicated to addressing racism and diversity
A June event will honor students and volunteers in programs
dedicated to addressing racism and diversity.
The event, A Sundae in June, will be held at 6pm June 1 at
Burlington High School. Ice cream sundaes will be served. A film made by Edmunds
Middle School students about diversity will be shown.
The event is being sponsored by the School Action Team of
Burlington Study Circles on Racism in cooperation with the Burlington School
District. This is the second year the Team has hosted this event.
Among those to be honored will be:
- A
World of Difference: Students at Edmunds and Hunt Middle Schools and
Burlington High School are trained as peer leaders in this anti-bias
initiative from the Anti-Defamation League. Students in the program train
their school peers.
- Shades
of Ebony: This program provides tutoring and support to students of
color in middle and high school.
- Reading
to End Racism: This year, more than 41 classrooms and 767 students have
participated in this program that focuses on the use of literature to
stimulate conversation on race. Readers this year included seven students
from the Burlington High School A World of Difference program, chief of
police, mayor, superintendent of schools, professors, community activists,
city nonprofit directors, and community members.
- EMS
Diversity Documentary Group: This group of middle school students
produced a documentary film on the diversity within the Edmunds Middle
School community.
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