In the wake of the slew of school threats that have been made in recent months, not just here in Southern Arizona, but across the country, some community members on the southside participated in a “March for Peace” on Saturday, October 19.
After a brief ceremony, students, parents and community members made the march from Santa Clara Elementary School to Mission Manor Elementary School.
“Our Board President, Becky Quintero and I had just been talking about the violence that has been occurring not only here in Tucson, in the community but really across the nation,” Sunnyside Unified School District Superintendent Jose Gastelum said.
That’s when the idea for the march was born.
“One of the things we wanted to do is create awareness, bring people together and get people reflecting on what they can do and what we can do as a collective group to build peace in the community,” Gastelum said.
It’s something they want to instill in kids at a young age in the classroom. They have a “peace pole” to help with that.