Missouri School Board Votes To Remove Black History Classes
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.
Is black history not taught inside the main history classes? Slavery, civil rights, etc etc? What is the argument for these classes?
They say it disappeared in the 1920s. It didn't. It just went underground.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Klan
It is not - "main" history classes gloss over "messy" details. You should see what we don't learn about Christopher Columbus, for example.
You mean the guy who was too Evil even for the spanish monarchy?