The incidents include a drawing of a swastika and the N-word found on a desk earlier this month in the Park City High School classroom of a social studies teacher, who says he has documented more than 60 recent incidents of this kind.
There are no silver bullets, the district’s human resources director says, “but through consistent little tweaks, progress, ideas, goals we can make a difference.”
The district is implementing an instructional framework that provides a viable curriculum for all students and will create a “human-centered culture that recognizes the whole individual,” among other steps, Amy Hunt, the district’s chief academic officer, said Wednesday.
The Park City Board of Education voted on Friday not to move to remote learning next week just one day after state leaders reinstated the option to transition to online classes amid a surge of COVID cases in Utah schools.
The Park City School District is hosting its first State of the District address next week to update parents and the community about its past successes and future plans.