Mix it Up at Lunch Day!

This event will be on Nov. 13th and aims to create "inclusive school communities" and is part of the Southern Poverty Law Center and Tolerance.org's Teaching Tolerance project. It is like walking a mile in someone elses moccasins by sitting at their lunch table. If you don't think the drama of school lunch rooms can be intolerant, you don't know what is going on... back in my day we had as a lunchroom at middle school an indoor gym that had a partition. On one side was the 'hot lunch' and on the other was the 'cold lunch'. I for one wanted a hot lunch on occasion and had come from a different school to 9th grade. I found out it was a form of 'de facto' segregation as most of the kids on the hot lunch side of the very real divider were either black or hispanic. Some received lunch 'tickets' as part of a social service program. Sometimes I'd go over to the other side and hang out with the kids there, slowly I came to realize the seperation did indeed have psychological effects...