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We listened to young people talk about how hard it can be sometimes to fit in at school. The labeling and grouping on most campuses tend to put you in one group and keep you out of others.
Sometimes, the way other people treat you is tied to how "your group" rates at school.
We understand hanging out with people we think are most like us can be comfortable. But we also understand it can be uncomfortable when you want to hang out with someone new and other people think you should "stick with your own kind."
Nowhere on school campuses are the boundaries of group membership more clearly drawn than in and around the cafeteria.
"They" sit at those tables and "the ..." hang out over there. Everybody knows where you're supposed to hang out. But why does it have to stay that way?
Truth is, things don't have to be how they've always been. That's why we decided to support young people who wanted to create change and started Mix It Up.
Mix It Up believes in the power of youth to create and sustain real change. We want to provide ideas and tools to help you break the walls of division in your school and community.
Mix It Up is a project of the Southern Poverty Law Center's Teaching Tolerance program.
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