The event was designed to bring diversity awareness to students. Vanessa Kalabat has never really fit in. And classmates regularly taunt her with racial epithets and cruel jokes. My Chaldean friends and cousins don't think I'm a good person because I hang around white people who they say treat us bad. I make friends with both.
People are so narrow-minded.
Consequently, Vanessa has switched schools twice. Students from Seaholm and two nearby high schools participated in workshops and panel discussions on diversity in arts, music, literature and society as a whole. The event, said teacher Robin Moten, is a way to bring diversity awareness into the school that has about 95 percent white students. This is important because once these students leave the nest, they're going to have to be able to articulate their views when they encounter different groups of people with different races and cultures. Ethnic background and skin color didn't appear to be barriers Thursday as students spoke with one another during the teach-in.