6/28/2023 0 Comments The Chosen by Alexandra SwannShe could not make out the words, but she could tell they were disagreeing with her. She was barely through her first sentence thanking the school board when a group of mostly White parents in the audience began shouting. On that frigid Tuesday night, hers almost wasn’t. “You hear ‘Parents are fighting for this.’ ‘Adults are fighting for this.’ I wanted to make sure a student voice was heard.” “I wanted to speak from a student perspective, because you don’t hear much of that on the news,” Angela, 18, who wants to pursue a career in social work, said in an interview. At a meeting in late January, she planned to thank the Loudoun school board for continuing its mask mandate and taking the pandemic seriously. “I wanted to make sure a student voice was heard.” - Angela Rivera, 18, Park View High Schoolīut Angela, who is Hispanic and serves as student school board representative, felt she had to speak in support of school mask-wearing now that it was being challenged by the governor.
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