The all-white school board voted 5-2 to stop offering Black history and literature courses.
A Missouri school board that previously voted to rescind an anti-discrimination resolution has voted in favor of removing elective Black history and literature classes.
The seven-member Francis Howell School Board voted 5-2 Thursday night to stop offering Black History and Black Literature courses, which had been offered at the district’s three high schools since 2021, KSDK reported. All seven members of the board are white.
“Our students really wanted these electives,” Harry Harris, whose son is a student in the district, said during the board meeting. “Our families really wanted them and our teachers really wanted them. It’s important. It’s been great.”
In July, the conservative-led board revoked an anti-racism resolution that had been passed in 2020 following the police killing of George Floyd.
The people of Tulsa didn’t know about the Tulsa Race Massacre. Until that HBO show Watchmen I never heard of it.
Ask my wife who was born and raised here and my ex wife both had no clue and they went to school in the Tulsa area.
It fucked up but Until HBO shine a light on it they had plan to never educate anyone about it.