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• Position: Mixing It Up - School activity sponsored by Teaching Tolerance called 'Mix It Up at Lunch Day' - Brief article

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Have you ever even considered sitting at a table in the school cafeteria where you don't 'belong'? If you give it a shot on November 9, you'll have lots of company: It's Mix It Up at Lunch Day, an annual event sponsored by Teaching Tolerance, a project of the Southern Poverty Law Center, an anti-bigotry group in Montgomery, Alabama. Students are asked to sit with someone new for just a day--a small step that could help break down social and racial barriers. According to Teaching Tolerance, the tendency to see...