TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) A few hundred Topeka students marched to the Statehouse to show they’re diverse and united.
The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that 400 to 500 Topeka High School students participated in the march Wednesday.
Angelo Campos, an 18-year-old senior, says since the presidential election last week there’ve been reports of minorities being discriminated against, and he wanted to show he takes pride in the school’s diverse groups.
Principal Rebecca Morrisey says the march occurred during a morning period when the school’s estimated 1,800 students are in homeroom and that students were allowed to participate if they chose to.
Morrisey says the school’s been working to “make sure we honor both sides of the political spectrum and that we don’t allow negative hate speech from either side of the political spectrum.”
