A Missouri school board will allow Black history and literature classes after mounting backlash sparked by its initial plan to eliminate the courses.
Francis Howell School Board will permit high school students across the predominantly white district to enrol in these classes in the next school year if the board approves of a curriculum “that is rigorous and largely politically neutral,” said a statement from the school board president and superintendent sent to the St Louis Post-Dispatch.
Just last week, the board voted to remove the courses, which had been offered at the district’s three high schools since 2020, because they were reportedly developed to the Southern Poverty Law Center’s standards. At the meeting, the board’s vice president, Randy Cook, voiced opposition to teaching the courses “through a social justice framework,” the outlet reported.
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