This Week: It’s the first week of Black History Month, in the first celebration of this month post the racial reckoning of 2020. So you’d think we’d be in for none of the usual shenanigans in our nation’s schools, right? Oh, if only. Teachers in Wisconsin asks the kids to consider how they would punish a disobedient slave, and a school in Utah explains how families are allowed to opt out of Black History Month. Also, the city of Los Angeles plans to sue the nation’s second largest school district to force reopening of physical school, even though LA is the purplest of purple, and the literal epicenter of the pandemic right now. Yall, this is a wild one.
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