Project Teamwork first visited the school two years ago, and worked closely with guidance counselor Joy Morris to set up a human rights squad within the student body. At this meeting of the human rights squad, students use role playing to examine the conflicts that arise in their daily lives, and search for nonviolent solutions. Okay, hold right here. And if Tommy steps up to him, he's got to step back. No, you don't need your fists.
Kids are pretty much the same everywhere.
Certainly there are some degrees of danger that may be different for some of our kids but for the most part they face the same problems. So the concepts that I teach here are the same that I would teach you know, in Boston or in Fort Benning, Georgia. So I have to listen to it. I have a right to speak my language. We have a right to be here.