Student and parent activists again called on the Norwalk Community School District s school board at a Monday meeting to change how the district addresses discriminatory bullying of minority students and how the district teaches diversity.
Josie Mulvihill, her mother, Mindi Mulvihill, and two other students addressed the board during the public forum portion of Monday s meeting. Josie, who is a senior at Norwalk, Crow VanKerckvoorde, who is a eighth-grader, and Eleanor Cole, who is an sophomore, each told board members about being targets of racist, homophobic and sexist bullying by teachers and other students in the district. Students come to you with complaints, with stories with their truth about what s happening and you re failing them because they don t see any change, Mulvihill said.
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