South Side peace rally hopes to steer youths away from violence this summer

At Gately Park in Pullman, there was music and dancing on a good looking Friday afternoon, however beneath all of it is a message of peace as college students look forward to summer time months with out college.

The primary ever Far South Peace Stroll was held in Pullman Friday.

“This peace rally is centered around– is scholar centered, youth centered,” stated Joyce Chapman, member of the Chicago Board of Training.

However in gentle of latest mass shootings each out and in of the classroom, some college students say they really feel much less protected in the course of the summer time months.

“However, now college is not protected anymore, so the one method we might create that peace is that if all of us have peaceable mindsets,” stated Nicole Whitney, junior CPS scholar.

“Being an individual who lives round that, it is sort of horrible to listen to,” stated sophomore Ra’Shyah Hoskins. “You are attempting to do work, you are attempting maintain your loved ones, and simply to listen to gunshots!”

That actuality of gun violence simply steps away from many of those younger folks’s houses has college leaders and regulation enforcement pledging to see these college students to their subsequent college 12 months.

“We need to see each scholar that is launched on June 14th return again to highschool in September as they left in June,” stated fifth District Commander Glenn White.

“We hold attempting! We hold being there for them as a result of the worst factor we might do is simply dismiss them,” stated Charletta McDonald, Morgan Park Excessive Faculty CSI counselor.