The District 196 School Board on Monday approved an administrative recommendation to make Thursday, April 21 a day of no school for all students in the district.
A college president and a school superintendent recently sent out messages to their respective constituents regarding the U.S. Capitol riot, warning them about systemic racism and not to make comparisons to last summer’s Black Lives Matter protests.
Paul Smith’s College President Jon Strauss said to his “fellow Smitties” that the 2020 Black Lives Matter demonstrations were “largely peaceful protest[s] of the 400 years of subjugation experienced by a large segment of our population.”
Strauss also emphasized that past attacks on the U.S. Capitol were committed by foreign adversaries, but last Wednesday’s violence was perpetrated by American citizens.