Student Protests Continuing (Now at Ingraham)
Ingraham High School has a Native/Latino club. Since both the district and the City had passed resolutions recognizing Indigenous Peoples Day every 2nd Monday in October and, since November is Latino Heritage Month/Native American Heritage month , the club had asked the school for a school-wide assembly to "promote and celebrate" these recognitions. But the school leadership said no. According to a press release, "Ingraham H.S. has no formal policy or procedure for student club initiated school-wide assembly requests." The students do have a grant to raise awareness of Native American students and wanted to use some of those funds for the assembly "to engage the Ingraham community by educating staff and students about local and National leaders, artists, activist and providing a rare look into Native/Latino perspectives, experiences and contributions." The students are not happy with the no coming from the office. These Ingraham students plan...