Tomorrow morning, students at Carson's Ambler Avenue Elementary School will celebrate the election of the first African-American president with a morning event for "Barack Obama Day."
From a Los Angeles Unified press release:
Various classes will recite poems and sing songs about president-elect Obama. The entire student body will celebrate the presidency of the first African American president and the 44th president of the United States of America.
"Students will also articulate how they now know they can aspire to be the president of the United States because he looks like us," said Althea Sidney, the school's Title I Coordinator. "We are a school of color and proud of Barack Obama's accomplishments."
Ambler's student body is almost 85 percent black and a little over 11 percent Hispanic, according to last year's data from the California Department of Education.
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