If cases continue to fall, Supt. Randall Booker wrote parents a letter saying that he would “rescind” the outdoor mask policy for all students and staff beginning on Feb. 7.
Calif. school district under fire for creating white student support group for Chauvin trial Our students were the first to call attention to it, and they were right to do so, agreed school board president Cory Smegal.
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A California school district has come under fire this week after it was reported that school officials created a support group for white students to vent after
Derek Chauvin was found guilty of murdering
George Floyd.
In a case that made international headlines and sparked the resurgence of a movement, the white police Minneapolis officer was ultimately found guilty of second-degree murder, third-degree murder, and manslaughter on April 20, following the May 2020 death of Floyd.
School district apologizes for offering support circles to White students following Chauvin trial
A California school district has apologized after an attempt to support students in the wake of the Derek Chauvin trial backfired when an assistant superintendent sent an email inviting “White students” to discuss the trial and the death of George Floyd.
The email, titled “White Student Support Group” was sent by Piedmont Unified School District’s assistant superintendent to students at the district’s two high schools the day after jurors in Minnesota convicted Chauvin on April 20. The email offered a “restorative community circle … to support White students who would like to discuss how the trial, verdict, and experiences related to the George Floyd murder are impacting you.”
Schools offer grief support for White students after Derek Chauvin conviction
Ex-Minneapolis cop Derek Chauvin (Image source: Hennepin County Jail)
Former police officer Derek Chauvin was convicted of second-degree murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter in the death of George Floyd on April 20. Immediately following the verdict, the school district of Piedmont, California thought it was good idea to offer grief counseling for white students.
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SFGate reported that Cheryl Wozniak, the assistant superintendent of educational services at Piedmont Unified School District, sent out an e-mail on April 21 to students and staff at Millennium and Piedmont high schools in light of the verdict against Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd last year.
Where racial issues are concerned, we’re living in a strange time.
Yet, it isn’t altogether unprecedented the country’s once tried separation by race.
Part of the new twist, so far as I can tell: We’re doing something similar to what we did before, which we previously learned wasn’t good.
It isn’t exactly the same, but there are certainly shared properties.
Nonetheless,
Hence, in Piedmont, California recently, someone in charge of schools had an idea.
It went something like this: In light of the Derek Chauvin verdict, let’s host “support circles” for students to discuss the outcome. And let’s do it in a segregated way.