What we talk about, when we talk about thinking of the children
Children have been used as an excuse to push back against human rights advances over at least the past century and a half, and it's still happening today.
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Children have been used as an excuse to push back against human rights advances over at least the past century and a half, and it's still happening today.
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The Albemarle County school district in Virginia has been subjected to two lawsuits related to its implementation of an “anti-racist” curriculum, which one parent said was “incubating a culture rooted in grievance, discord, and victimhood.” But parents in the school district near Charlottesville may be alarmed to discover that it is not just the school board that is working against them.
The New Orleans Charter Science and Mathematics High School (Sci High) and the University of New Orleans’ Midlo Center for New Orleans Studies will host “Freedom on the Move in New Orleans,” a K-12 student creative showcase that explores the lives of freedom-seeking enslaved people in New Orleans and south Louisiana.