High school students organize their own prom
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) The graduating class of 2021 has overcome a lot to make it to the finish line.
But when some students at Roseville Area High School found out a normal senior prom wasn’t happening, they got creative.
“I never knew how much I would take a regular school day for granted,” senior Brooke Green said.
It wasn’t a typical senior year, or junior year for that matter.
“There’s just a lot of getting our hopes up too soon and then just being let down over and over again,” senior Ricky Weber said.
Minnesota students walkout of classrooms to protest racial injustice They’re killing us, they’re killing the young people, they’re killing the future of this country.
Minnesota walked out of class on Monday in a state-wide protest against racial injustice.
The event was organized by Minnesota Teen Activists, and students from at least 118 high schools reportedly participated in the walkout. According to the
New York Times, the students demanded school leaders end their “silence over racial injustice.”
The coordinated action was in response to the police killings of
George Floyd and
Daunte Wright, a 20-year old Black man who was fatally shot last week in Brooklyn Center, Minn.