Written by Vivi Smilgius
"The highest concentration of Asian students in the district is in the Baker School, where more than a third of students identify as Asian .
Katy Moy, a Chinese American music teacher at the school, helped organize a lunchtime affinity group for Asian students in middle school. The group meets weekly and has nearly quadrupled in the three years since it was founded.
The affinity group is a testament to the need for such a space within the school, Moy said.
'The first year we started, one student said, ‘I’ve been here since kindergarten, but I never felt like I could talk about being Asian at school.’ That hit me hard,' she said."
Katy Moy, a music teacher at Baker School, discusses her hopes for the future of Baker School’s Asian American Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander (AANHPI Affinity) Club. She’d like to help build bridges between Brookline’s middle school affinity groups and those at Brookline High School.
Katy Moy reads thank-you notes from 7th and 8th graders in the AANHPI Affinity Club, which she helped lead.
Katy Moy holds up a student-designed sweatshirt from the Baker School AANHPI Affinity Club.
