And almost everyone experiences being stereotyped. Fanny Tan, a classmate of Keith and Ebony, says that she has been harassed because she is Chinese. Still, that didn't stop her from having her own prejudices. I was told to stay away from black people. But now that I've become friends with them, I've gotten rid of those stereotypes.
Stereotypes are wrong.
Besides breaking down stereotypes, students at Haines read newspaper articles to educate themselves about prejudice. They also keep journals to record their experiences with racism. Part of the mural created by students at the John C. Haines School in Chicago, Illinois. On the East Coast, kids and teachers at Martin Middle School in Taunton, Massachusetts, celebrate their diversity. Twenty-five years ago, the student body at Martin was almost entirely white.