On Multiracial Students and Belonging in Affinity Spaces
A student at the Archer School writes about being sorted into a combined everyone-else affinity group and asked, in effect, to choose one identity to attend as. Her argument is constructive: schools should create genuine third spaces where mixed students belong as their whole selves. The column is powerful precisely because a young person wrote it about rooms she actually sits in. Feature it with credit and a link, and treat it as an open invitation: our readers’ own school stories are welcome here. Belonging is a school-supplies issue; her essay explains why better than most adults could.