The Texas school board at the center of civil rights complaints is responsible for helping usher in an era of anti-DEI legislation.
that it had contacted a school district in Southlake, Texas, to begin negotiating a resolution agreement in civil rights complaints from four former students. The complainants reported that, during their time as students, they had been subjected to racist and homophobic slurs and comments.
When I graduated from Carroll Independent School District in 2004, I was one of only a few students of color at the time, so the students’ experiences hit close to home for me. Dismissing Southlake as an overprivileged school and outlier may be tempting, but what happens in “the bubble” — as we not so affectionately refer to my hometown — does not stay there.
In November 2017, a plaque commemorating the late Dallas Cowboys football player Frank Cornish IV, whose family lived across the street from my childhood home, was. “The plaque bearing Cornish’s name had an expletive, the letters KKK and a racially charged message carved across it,” a Dallas TV news station reported.
we “had better wake the heck up,” and the school district announced the formation of a Diversity Council. However, any faint hope was dashed in August 2020 when the board of trustees convened to vote on the council’s 34-pageas it was live-streamed. Hours of public comments left me in tears. I recognized the pain in students’ voices as they shared their experiences of racism within school walls.
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