About 300 students protested a school administration that organizers said had promoted “psychological trauma” among Black students.
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“We decided that we needed to bring attention to some issues here at Hillcrest High School that school administration has failed to adequately address,” senior Jamiyah Brown said in a speech on Wednesday, claiming some Black students at the school were “targeted and punished unjustly without justifiable reasoning.”.
Brown, who is part of the production, said she was told earlier this fall by a white administrator that the students should include more “current” Black figures, “like Beyoncé,” in the production, and that “old stuff” made people feel uncomfortable. Brown said Black students were repeatedly disciplined for dress code violations, even for wearing similar clothes to white students. One of her peers, she claimed, was told she looked like a “streetwalker” from an administrator.
“I’m inclined to believe that the administration at the school has allowed a culture of racial insensitivity that has created a toxic learning environment for students,” Young said.
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