Rockwood School District: Diversity educator Brittany Hogan was forced to resign
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St. Louis Public Radio Amy Ryan, a Rockwood parent, reacts Friday during a parent-organized forum on the district s diversity curriculum.
What started as a tense debate over whether Rockwood’s schools should reopen in person last fall has descended into schoolyard bullying among the adults.
Politics didn’t used to enter the schools. The elementary recitals and high school football games were where parents could put conservative versus liberal views aside, don the school colors and root for their kids.
But without that common social fabric in a year of social distancing, the Rockwood School District community is ripping at the seams, frayed first by the pandemic’s closure of schools and then shredded by a fight over whether and how to teach diversity in classrooms. The district’s superintendent and diversity director are both walking away, but educators in the district continue to feel under siege from a group of parents leading a charge against a diversity curriculum t
St. Louis Public Radio
Amy Ryan, a Rockwood parent, reacts Friday during a parent-organized forum on the district s diversity curriculum.
Politics didn’t used to enter the schools. The elementary recitals and high school football games were where parents could put conservative versus liberal views aside, don the school colors and root for their kids.
But without that common social fabric in a year of social distancing, the Rockwood School District community is ripping at the seams, frayed first by the pandemic’s closure of schools and then shredded by a fight over whether and how to teach diversity in classrooms. The district’s superintendent and diversity director are both walking away, but educators in the district continue to feel under siege from a group of parents leading a charge against a diversity curriculum they say is “indoctrinating” their children.
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National nonprofit shares Black History Month book list for engaging kids in diverse literature .
Reading PartnersFebruary 1, 2021 GMT
Oakland, CA, Feb. 01, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) Reading Partners, an early literacy nonprofit dedicated to mobilizing community volunteers to tutor students attending under-resourced schools, believes that diversity should be celebrated not only in designated months but throughout the year. As it celebrates Black History Month, Reading Partners encourages families to instill the important message that Black heritage and history can and should be appreciated every month. Unfortunately, only a small percentage of books centered on non-white characters are written by authors with a shared identity. For example, only 29 percent of the 340 books featuring “significant African or African American content/characters” in 2017 were written by Black authors and/o
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