While school will be closed with no classes on Tuesday, November 3rd, the school will host optional political discussion sessions, led by teachers and students alike. Upper school club leaders have volunteered to run informational sessions on topics ranging from key Congressional races to voting rights for people with felony convictions to voter suppression, important political photographs, bystander intervention for microaggressions, animal rights issues, a leader’s responsibility for modeling appropriate behavior during a crisis, immigration, the implications of the 2020 election for the LGBT community, candidates’ opinions on foreign policy, the negative effects of social media, historic protests like the Chicago 7, the history of women’s suffrage, affordable housing, the Electoral College, climate change and the climate crisis, protest music throughout history, protests in professional sports, and bias in political reporting. The various workshops were organized by the community council with help from advisor Ms. Raskin!
