Parents in the North Scott District expressed concern over some of the materials available to their middle school students through the Google Drive/Canvas account.
Students can find a link to an online library called “Gale.”
Step 1: Click on “library.”
Step 2: Login.
Step 3: Browse all topics.
Step 4: Click on racism.
Step 5: Check out the “resources.”
*Anti-Racism.
*Black Lives Matter – Black Lives Matter is an activist movement that campaigns against police brutality and institutional racism. Institutional racism is a form of racial bias that has become accepted as normal behavior within a society.
*Police brutality.
*Built on a Foundation of White Supremacy.
*Janelle Monae’s Film ‘Antebellum’ Shows the Horrors of Systemic Racism and White Supremacy; “We’re in the middle of a revolution. We’re in the middle of a reckoning.”
*Extremism Watchers Raise Concerns Over Trump Failing to Condemn White Supremacy.”
*Overdue reckoning with white supremacy.
*Why white supremacy is actually killing white people.
“There’s so much of it on there it’s blatant and overwhelming,” one parent told The Iowa Standard. “Personally, I don’t see how this is ever going to end now that it has started.”
