For my second blog on social justice, I chose to talk about a club that we had in my High School. It was called the Interact Club. In the Interact Club, students from different ethnic backgrounds would all meet in the library once a week to discuss political issues within the school. We would talk about bullying, academics, and most importantly prejudism. Some of the non-American students would tell us stories about how their teachers seem to pay less attention to them when they try to answer questions in class. We were all astonished by this.
I was actually in class with a bunch of these kids and I noticed that a couple of our teachers would simply ignore that their hands were even up when they would answer a question. They would say, "Oh, nobody knows the answer to this question?" and they would just move on. It was crazy. These kids eventually went to administration and for a couple of days the principle ended up sitting in on some of our classes. The non-American kids finally got a chance to speak their voices in the classes and man were they happy about it!
Also in the Interact Club we got to do a job shadowing day. I always did something fun like be the mayor for a day, shadow a teacher, or one time I got to shadow a person from the State House. It was really cool and I learned a lot about politics. All the multi-cultured students got equal opportunites to go to all the same places that the white students got to go.
The Interact Club was really good in showing equality for everyone. It made all the students feel at home and everyone had different experiences depending on what exactly the topic of that day was.
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