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Given how many tears and anguished faces filled the room during a recent “community conversation” in Eureka, Mo., last week, you’d think someone had died tragically. Naw, it wasn’t really that deep. Just a bunch of white parents complaining about their kids learning about racism and how they feel hurt by the suggestion that they are racist if they push back against an anti-racism curriculum.
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The drama started after parents in the Rockwood School District got a hold of a leaked memo to teachers instructing them to alter or hide elements of the curriculum from parents, according to KSDK-5 NBC.
The clip was captured at a “community conversation” Friday in Eureka, Missouri which quickly devolved to shouting.
A video of this Missouri woman who insists she isn’t racist for not wanting her children to learn critical race theory has gone viral. (KSDK)
Parents were present to protest the discussion of race in history and literature in the Rockwood School District, which has seen pushback against online learning and even had parents protest the school removing a “thin blue line”-altered image of the U.S. flag from baseball hats worn by the local high school team.
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Rockwood forum turns heated during discussion of race and class curriculum
School district asserts that email to teachers suggesting they hide controversial lessons from parents isn t policy. It does not reflect the vision, was the reply. Author: Abby Llorico Updated: 10:39 PM CDT April 30, 2021
ST. LOUIS Tensions were high long before the man who asked the first question at the “community conversation” in Eureka on Friday afternoon was escorted out, shouting.
“Bye,” members of the crowd waved and called after him.
The Rockwood School District is one of the largest in the region, and it’s been a tumultuous year for families and leadership. Parents protested the plan to begin the 2020 fall semester online. More recently, administrators received blowback for removing the “thin blue line” altered image of the American flag from Eureka High School baseball hats.
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