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May 12, 2021 By Jon King / jking@whmi.com
The issue of diversity, equity, and inclusion was at the center of public discussion Monday night during the Hartland Consolidated Schools board meeting.
During his regular report to the board, Superintendent Chuck Hughes wanted to address a rumor that was spreading in the community that the district planned to be teaching CRT, or critical race theory. CRT has become a hot-button topic among conservatives who see it as a system designed to indoctrinate liberal social values in students through the lens of race. Scholars generally define it as an attempt to understand how victims of systemic racism are affected by cultural perceptions of race and how they are able to represent themselves to counter prejudice.
April 13, 2021 By Mike Kruzman / news@whmi.com
As the Hartland Consolidated School Districtâs Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee prepares to start training, the Board of Education has elected to form a subcommittee to provide oversight.
After revelations of racial harassment against a Black high school student came up this year, the district began working with the Michigan Department of Civil Rights and formed a 21 member DEI Committee. That committee is set to begin training courses at the end of the month.
Recently, Board of Education Treasurer Bill Gatewood began working with Superintendent Chuck Hughes on figuring out a structure for a subcommittee of Board members who would oversee the main committee. This weekend, Gatewood posted on social media that the recommendation they came up with was met with resistance, and Hughes was forced to put another one together.
March 15, 2021 By Jon King / jking@whmi.com
A rising count of confirmed and probable cases of COVID-19 is forcing one local school to return to all-remote learning this week, while superintendents are reminding their communities that mitigation strategies like mask-wearing and social distancing are still important if they want to keep schools fully open, including athletics.
In his communication to parents on Friday, Brighton High School Principal Gavin Johnson addressed the issue of students and staff having to be quarantined because of COVID. Johnson noted that the past week was their âbusiest week of the yearâ when it came to quarantines, and while he admitted he did not exactly know why, he did offer some ideas, saying that he was âspeaking honestly and directly with you. Not politicallyâ, pointing out that some in the community, âincluding some of our students, do not think Covid is serious. But they do think quarantine