Roslyn ‘Mixes it Up’
The elementary school participates in the 11th annual Mix It Up Day, put on by the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Teaching Tolerance project.
This week, students at Roslyn Elementary School joined more than one million other students across the country to help break down social and racial barriers by participating in the 11th annual Mix It Up Day. The event, launched by the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Teaching Tolerance project in 2002, encourages students to sit with someone new in the cafeteria for the day. Not only did students sit with someone new during lunch, they participated in many barrier-busting activities throughout the day. Roslyn Elementary School students took part in the school’s own version of this event when classes of different grade levels joined together to complete a special, engaging activity, led by their teachers, that promotes tolerance. Tolerance …
Richard Keefe
2:49 pm on Wednesday, December 5, 2012
Ironically, NOT ONE of the Southern Poverty Law Center's top executives is a minority. Despite being located LITERALLY in the back yard of Dr. Martin Luther King's home church in Montgomery, the SPLC has NEVER hired a person of color to a highly paid position of authority in it's entire 41-year history. Even the Center's "Teaching Tolerance" project, which purports to promote diversity in the K-… more ›