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UpdatedThu, Jan 7, 2021 at 8:36 pm ET Replies(3) (Jenna Fisher/Patch) CONCORD, MA — Concord students and staff watched along with the rest of the world on Wednesday, as the U.S. Capitol Building was breached and desecrated by pro-Trump extremists. The protests-turned-riots led to at least four deaths, a delayed electoral count and a mountain of questions and anxiety surrounding our government. With no answers and a day of lessons to fill, Concord educators saw an opportunity. The district will not shy away from discussing the siege of the Capitol Building, but rather use it as a way to help...

Jeffrey Webb Jeffrey Webb holds an MFA in creative writing from West Virginia Wesleyan College. He has written nonfiction for such places as Teaching Tolerance, Appalachian History, and the West Virginia Encyclopedia, and he has written fiction for the Pikeville Review, Red Mud Review, and the Charleston Anvil. You can follow him on Twitter @jmwebbwriter.

Reply Greenwich High School teachers shared feedback from classes Thursday about the U.S. Capitol violence Wednesday; the superintendent also addressed it. (Shutterstock) GREENWICH, CT — In a letter sent to staff Thursday, Superintendent Toni Jones spoke out regarding the chaos Wednesday that culminated in a violent insurrectionist mob overwhelming police and entering the U.S. Capitol to halt the Electoral College certification of Joe Biden as the country's next president. In her letter to staff, Jones referred to the events Wednesday as "disturbing, alarming and emotionally draining," and ...

Other slides instructed white teachers to "bankrupt [their] privilege," acknowledge their "thieved inheritance," and "commit to the journey" of anti-whiteness even if their "lizard brain" makes them fearful of having a conversation about racism—"or any other kind of ‘-ism.'" A later slide asked participants to identify their "triggers" based on "one or two" of their identities and think of ways in which they were "anti-racist" outside of the classroom.  After months of civil and racial unrest this summer, school districts across the United States implemented training on "anti-racism" an...