Julia Nam, of Davis Senior High School in Davis, California, describes growing up in South Korea. Nam says she thinks the experience has made communicating in English at school more difficult.
Youth videographers at Media Enterprise Alliance in Oakland created this video in response to Republican Donald J. Trump's victory in the U.S. presidential election on Nov. 8.
As high school and college students took to the streets to protest the results of Tuesday's U.S. presidential election, Stagg High School Phillicity Uriarte-Jones reflects on her commitment to social change. Uriarte-Jones says Donald Trump's victory will only make her work harder for what she wants.
"[B]ecause in the end, the thing that is going to help us get through this is us supporting one another and being ourselves more than we have before and being proud to just not be a part of that culture of hatred."
Neither the government nor whatever makes our lives great now are beholden to the federal politicians we elect today. Today’s election does not predict what is to come — but our scrutiny will be more important than ever along with our continued engagement in the political process.
Take a look at how we run #GSSChats in preparation for our election day coverage! This was from a September chat with our South Korea and Bali students, discussing one student's visit to the Korean DMZ.
Members of GS Green Generation, a Green School program that focuses on environmental activism and journalism, networked, performed flash mobs and set up a booth to describe Green School initiatives including Bye Bye Plastic Bags, a campaign that succeeded in persuading Bali to outlaw plastic bags as of 2018, and BioBus, a waste-oil recycling program.