Earlier this week outrage resulted as in St. Charles County, Missouri, the seven-member board voted 5-2 to remove Black History related electives. The school board president sent a statement regarding his decision:

“The Board of Education voted to rescind approval of the academic standard titled “Social Justice Standards: The Teaching Tolerance Anti-Bias Framework” as published by Teaching Tolerance, a project of the Southern Poverty Law Center and associated curricula, effective July 1, 2024.

“With SPLC providing a blanket call out of all parents involved in education as part of their ‘hate map’, this framework specifically promoting activism, and the history of how this framework was adopted I chose to vote in favor of rescinding.  While removal of this standard affects the Black History and Black Literature courses many on the board signaled to the District they would be supportive of bringing these courses back after removal of this controversial standard.”

This has been a common practice for school boards across the nation, with false claims of ‘indoctrination,’ or the often-misused concept that Critical Race Theory is being taught, despite evidence to the contrary.

Although African American history is taught in Prince William County Schools, with Osbourn Park being the lone exception, there are several schools nationwide who may not have this opportunity to learn from scholars in their communities.

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