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Teachers hope students click outside school cliques

Source: LA Times

Nov 08, 2009

Summary

This week, campuses will participate in Mix It Up Day, a program that encourages students to avoid self-segregating, which experts say can affect school culture and increase tensions.

At Hawthorne High School recently, students easily identified areas where different groups hang out: the basketball players are in a corner near the cafeteria, the rockers near the stage, ditchers and smokers near the school gates and the JV football players and cheerleaders near the field.