Affinity Groups at South

In this episode, we discuss the recent NTA strike and its effects on students and teachers at Newton South High School.

In this episode we talk to the various affinity groups at South about what their missions are, what projects they work on and what issues their clubs face. 

College is something that students have to constantly think about. In this episode we dive into how the idea of college affects the mental health of students all the way from Freshmen to the Seniors. We interview students of all grades to get their input into how often they think about how college, how it impacts their mental health, how it impacts their free time and extracurriculars and any other factors it plays in their lives. Leave some feedback on this episode in this survey if you like the epiosde:https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeHcMvsRIjvnTXiagoEnNib8YxhhE2ukVnh1tVPEvlawgRqKw/viewform

In this episode, we are interviewing teachers and students of the MENA/SWANA community, on their experience of being MENA. From learning to conflicts in the MENA/SWANA Regions to Islamaphobia to celebrating and learning about parts of their culture, being part of the MENA/SWANA community is a different experience for everyone single person. This is what inspired us to do this episode and to help educate our school community on the various stories that make up the MENA/SWANA community, and to get the thoughts f the student and teacher body about how we can include the stories of the MENA community in our school curriculum and make sure that the voices of people who identify as being MENA or SWANA are being heard in our school. 

In this episode, we interview teachers and students about their experiences of being a POC at Newton South while providing a focus on the topic of safe spaces and how both teachers and students feel about the difficult conversations that we have been having in our classrooms about police brutality, systemic racism, the rising amount of Anti-Asian American hate crimes and other various issues that impact a variety of ethnic and cultural affinity groups here at South. You will also hear in this episode about the school's response system when these events occur and whether the school administration and organizations such as SHRC make sure to acknowledge that certain events impact certain groups at NSHS on higher and more personal levels and whether subsequently, the school provides support to the groups that are personally impacted by the recent events that have been going in this tumultuous year.   May is AAPI Heritage Month-https://docs.google.com/document/u/1/d/1HR7DXGvvKuuSPrX7rA_YMggydMbNpHnk0UIiZLLXt1U/edit?usp=sharing Ways to celebrate AAPI Heritage Month https://thehill.com/changing-america/respect/diversity-inclusion/552321-what-aapi-heritage-month-is-and-how-to-celebrate https://asianpacificheritage.gov/ https://asiasociety.org/texas/asian-pacific-american-heritage-month-2021 SHRC Website-https://sites.google.com/newton.k12.ma.us/southhrc/home?authuser=0 We also encourage you to check out clubs such as SASA,ASO,BSU,Latin X.

In today's episode we talk about the importance of recognizing and having conversation about the changes that were achieved by the Civil Rights Movement especially in today's world where social justice, systemic racism and policy brutality have all been heavily talked about over the past couple of months. We also talk about the role of the Civil Rights Movement in the conversations that we have about racism and the modern-day impacts of the Civil Rights Movement.