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Kalamazoo Public Schools will finish out school year fully remote Kalamazoo Public Schools has decided against bringing students back in to the classroom in person for the rest of the school year.

"Most important, it’s time for America to let go of her longing to go back to a normalcy that supports injustice continuing to go unchecked, a normalcy that requires cutting costs and corners while making profits at the expense of the lives of our BIPOC brothers and sisters. America’s existence, a life after the pandemic, the success of the Biden plan, and children simply returning to school buildings, all depends on whether her people will finally answer the urgent call to uproot the systems that continue to bare the bitter fruits of racial inequities."

Opinion: VP MI State Board of Ed: Before children go back to school, leaders must acknowledge COVID-19's disparate impact on BIPOC While COVID-19 has been an inconvenience for some, as noted by a Yale University epidemiologist, it has been more of a genocide by default for...

.... “teach Black history from Black perspectives."... seven(7) guiding principles for educators to explore when teaching Black history:
1. Power, oppression and racism
2. Black agency, perseverance and resistance
3. Africa and the African diaspora
4. Black joy and Black love
5. Black identities – other than heterosexual, Christian, middle-class Black men
6. Black historical contention and the problematic aspects of Black history
7. Black excellence
One area to focus on is getting “an accurate understanding of Reconstruction,” the period after the Civil War, to help Americans better understand “contemporary forms of racialized violence like mass incarceration,” ....... it’s important to recognize the many ways racism is baked into America’s foundational systems."1.

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