MYM: DC Highschool Starts Peace Room In Response To Rising Violence

We share a feel-good story that is guaranteed to Make Your Monday every Monday at 7:40A.

Episode Transcript

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Ninety seven point one wash them withToby and Chilly in the morning at Blue
High School in the Hearts of Washington, d C. There's a unique approach
to handling youth violence and violence ingeneral, which is taking roots. Where
Toby and Chile in the morning,it's ninety seven point one wash at them
and it's a story we think mightjust make your Monday. They call it
the Peace Palace, and that's wherethe Nights of Purpose, the Balloo Knights,

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they get together teen boys in aroom and share their thoughts and frustrations.
Chancellor Ferrebee kind of discusses his maingoal. My goal is ensured that
school is still the safest place thatyou can go to every day. And
this initiative is coming at the righttime, and it comes because of a
concern about a surgeon youth violence inthe district, a place where the sound

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of gunshots, I mean, wesee and we hear the news. It's
become all too familiar these days.And just by listening to one of the
students in the Nights of Purpose meeting, you can tell he's got a lot
on his mind. I feel like, now you just gotta be a wait
every day because I don't put anotherpage, no bad. That's why I
everywhere I walk, I'm not inmy phone, on my head up and

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I'm watching every day. In thePiece Room the Peace Palace, students will
find resources, mentors, and opendoor policy. The idea being that they
hope to transform the lives of theseyoung adults and really the goal one day
is to not need a Piece Palace. That's right, the Piece Room,
the Peace Palace. It's a reminderthat we don't have to be defined by

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the violence happening outside. We canbe a part of the change. You
can find details on this story andmore on the Toby and Chili page atwashafm
dot com. It's a movement tostand against violence and a call for peace,
and it's a story that we thinkmight just make your Monday, because
it's certainly made ours. Nineteen seventyforty one. Watcht them with Toby and
Chilly in the morning.