“As a District we remain committed to teaching love, inclusivity and compassion.” That was how the Northwest Local School District’s administration ended their statement in response to a racist incident in May at Colerain High School near Cincinnati, Ohio.Some students had put up handwritten “Whites only” and “Blacks only” signs over two water fountains at the school, taken pictures of them and then posted them to social media for public consumption. “NWLSD stands firm in creating a culture of inclusivity, respect, kindness and compassion for everyone,” the administrators added.Theirs is a statement any of the more than 14,000 school districts in the United States could issue. Yet how true can it be in Ohio, where in less than two years, Republican legislators have introduced three bills attempting to ban critical race theory and discussions of “divisive concepts” like the existence of LGBTQIA+ people? How can this be true when Forest Hills (another Cincinnati-area school district) postponed and then canceled its “Racial Diversity Awareness Day”, because some parents complained the event smacked of “critical race theory” and was “inherently divisive”?
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