A Split Rockwood: School Community In War Of Words Over How To Teach Diversity
St. Louis Public Radio Amy Ryan, a Rockwood parent, reacts Friday during a parent-organized forum on the district's diversity curriculum. What started as a tense debate over whether Rockwood’s schools should reopen in person last fall has descended into schoolyard bullying among the adults. Politics didn’t used to enter the schools. The elementary recitals and high school football games were where parents could put conservative versus liberal views aside, don the school colors and root for their kids. But without that common social fabric in a year of social distancing, the Rockwood Sch...