“We are the face of the future,” Maize High senior Tatyana Torres said. “Without us, we can’t rely on older people to speak up for us and do something about it, so we have to.”
On Thursday, January 22, students from both high schools in USD 266 united in a stand against United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement, also known as ICE, in a district-wide walkout. This student-led protest was staged at 1:10 p.m. during school hours between C lunch and fourth block. Maize High senior Tatyana Torres organized the walkout through social media after being inspired by other schools around Wichita.
“Especially in this area, with it being predominantly white, you don’t see the voices like you do from Wichita or North,” Torres said. “We don’t ever have anything like this, so I feel like this is such a big deal that everyone came out.”…