albemarle county school board: a plainclothes cop punching my friend in the face
@ZyahnaB notes that the district is making efforts to address racism, “but there is much work to be done.”
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“we know this is not something that is gonna change overnight,” he says. he says one of the reasons he got on the school board was to fix the hiring diversity problem.
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he says he is passionate about getting more kids of color interested in STEM.
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“our students cannot learn if they do not feel safe.”
“we know we’re gonna get some blowback - we already have.”
“we find ourselves now in this defining moment...”
(amazing how much easier it is to have a dialogue when you aren’t having parents dragged from the building by a small army of county cops. hopefully the county board is taking notes.)
(though a board member points out that they’ve changed the way the question is asked since 2008)
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