Hello Everyone,
I hope this note finds you well, and that you've found some inspiration in others' actions recently, as I have. Keeping in mind that many people in all places are working on practical, useful, and helpful projects is a great boost to me.
A recent item on the Village Voice, a long-running news source in New York, wrote about the work of high school journalists writing for the
Classic, at Townsend Harris High
School in Flushing, New York. (New York is D. Trump's state, so the story was particularly inspiring).
The students were reporting information about their interim high school
principal, including allegations that at her former school she had “berated
individual teachers [and] ignored students with disabilities”, and had
mishandled an Islamiphobic incident at your Townsend Harris HS.
The school district is looking for a permanent principal at THHS, so reporters stationed themselves to interview candidates.
As the Village Voice article (link below) reported, “According to a letter written by State Assembly Members
David Weprin and Nily Rozic, at a recent District Leadership meeting a
[Department of Education] representative called the Classic ‘fake news’ while defending” the current interim
principal.
The student journalists' response is to become even better journalists, to find out information, and publish.
Townsend Harris is a top-ranking high school, and its students come from many different backgrounds.
Thank you student journalists at Townsend Harris High! Your work - your efforts to report truth - is traveling far beyond your age group and your state. And reading about your work sure helped my day!
Best regards to all,
Why's Woman
For full article: Village Voice, March 21/2017
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