“So when the discipline data came up, it was really sudden - the girls just started talking and talking over each other and sharing stories about disparate discipline, times in which they were disciplined for something that was either minor or where they watch the disparities happen,” said Liza Meiris, a mentor for the Youth Leadership Committee. But one day, after combing through disciplinary data at the middle school level for Black girls, the students were stopped in their tracks by the racial disparities in detentions and suspensions. The students had made major strides in getting curriculum changes, such as improvements to the way Black history is taught. (The branch serves Cheltenham, Springfield, Jenkintown, Plymouth Meeting, and Whitemarsh.) Students from the Cheltenham NAACP Branch had already been working for six months on racial justice issues inside local schools, but mostly at Springfield Township High School, which is more than 70% white, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Education. May 19 to talk about ways to promote anti-racism in schools. The group is inviting the public to a Zoom town hall at 7 p.m. The Youth Leadership Committee of the NAACP’s Cheltenham Branch went public last week with a video sharing anonymous stories of discrimination inside Springfield Township High School in Montgomery County.
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