“The all-white school board voted unanimously to ban a selection of educational materials that included a children’s book about Rosa Parks, Malala Yousafzai’s autobiography and a Sesame Street town hall on racism.” 🤬🤬🤬
“I was deeply hurt when I heard about this book ban, which hurts Black and brown authors and resources,” said Ellis, a Black senior at the high school. “Why is a Sesame Street episode threatening the education of children. If anything this school board is threatening education,” she said during the meeting.
“Concerns were based on the content of the resources, not the author or topic…,” Johnson said in a statement. And because we lived in the most absurd timeline, some parents are supportive of the ban. One mother said,”the community is 100% against an critical race theory indoctrination agenda,” during Monday’s meeting. “Schools are not the place for politics or identity to be shaped.”York parent Matt Weyant commended the school board for implementing the ban. “I don’t want my daughter growing up feeling guilty because she’s white,” he said.
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