My AP World History class is taking on a new cause. We are purchasing flags for every country in which our students were born, to hang and display in our school cafeteria. We started by reaching out to all of our faculty and staff, asking for help identifying students who may have been born outside of the United States. We learned that although our high school, like many in North Carolina, remains made up by mostly a homogeneous demographic of suburban and rural white families - our ethnic diversity is growing rapidly.
As a class that spends our time each week together studying how the wider world impacts us, and how we impact the wider world - it is clear that we need to celebrate the ties that bind our community together right here in Weaverville, NC. And what better place to start than with an individual recognition of each of our students in this school - whether American, Guatemalan, Vietnamese, Mexican, or Chinese?
We are all North Buncombe Blackhawks here.
We currently have 18 different nations represented by our student body, and we will be proud to hang these flags, and raise our eyes daily to our global and local community.
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| Many of our international students, standing with their flags, February 2017. |
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