The all-white school board voted 5-2 to stop offering Black history and literature courses.

The all-white school board voted 5-2 to stop offering Black history and literature courses.

A Missouri school board that previously voted to rescind an anti-discrimination resolution has voted in favor of removing elective Black history and literature classes.

The seven-member Francis Howell School Board voted 5-2 Thursday night to stop offering Black History and Black Literature courses, which had been offered at the district’s three high schools since 2021, KSDK reported. All seven members of the board are white.

“Our students really wanted these electives,” Harry Harris, whose son is a student in the district, said during the board meeting. “Our families really wanted them and our teachers really wanted them. It’s important. It’s been great.”

In July, the conservative-led board revoked an anti-racism resolution that had been passed in 2020 following the police killing of George Floyd.

    • @EatYouWell
      44•1 year ago

      Kinda like when Google removed the “Do no evil” part from their mission statement.

      • @SpezCanLigmaBallsEnglish
        6•1 year ago

        I thought it was just moved somewhere else?

        Edit: turns out it’s “do the right thing” now

      • @bitwaba
        3•1 year ago

        A mission statement is a statement of purpose. Their mission statement is “to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful”. That has not changed

        “Don’t be evil” was their motto. It was replaced with “Do the right thing”, and “Don’t be evil” was moved to the last line of the Code of Conduct.