A public school district near Rochester, New York informed parents this week that their children will be participating in a new “anti-racist” curriculum that was overseen in part by a local Black Lives Matter leader who made headlines last summer when she declared, “I don’t care if the whole city burned down” during unrest in Rochester.
West Irondequoit Central School District emailed the parents of fourth and eighth grade students about a “new learning opportunity in which your child will be engaging this spring” centering around the “contemporary realities of structural racism.”