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
If This $8.4M Grant is Approved, Eureka’s Cooper Gulch Could Have a Bunch of Awesome Coming to It
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Here’s something to root for. Big changes could be coming to Cooper Gulch, as foretold in the City of Eureka press release below:
The City of Eureka is excited to announce its application for the Prop 68: Statewide Park
Development and Community Revitalization Program. This funding opportunity helps fund park
projects in critically underserved communities. The city is working hard to improve all city parks
with the focus of this grant application being to revitalize Cooper Gulch Park.
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.
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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