![]() Since the police killing of George Floyd last spring, ETHS senior Mika Parisien has been working as a board member of both Students Organized Against Racism and Evanston Fight for Black Lives. She said the whole situation was terrifying and is especially hard as kids are already struggling with COVID-19 closures and recent news about a school shooting in Michigan and the fatal shooting in Evanston.Evanston Township High School students are continuing to educate the Evanston community and press on racial equity in the city, even as they say the momentum behind last summer’s wave of antiracism action has fizzled. “I didn’t hear from her for a while, which was alarming, but teachers told kids to stay off their phones a while.” “I drove over here and saw all the police cars, then information started to trickle in from all the parents and the police Twitter feed,” Kellams said. She called 311 and was told there was an investigation at the school but there was not an imminent danger or threat. ![]() saying there was a threat incident and she asked her mother if she knew anything. Karen Kellams said she got a text from her daughter around 9:30 a.m. The couple stood outside the school Thursday afternoon waiting for her to be let out. Karen and Mike Kellams’ daughter is an Evanston Township High School junior. People and police officers wait outside of Evanston Township High School as the school was on lockdown on Dec.
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