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School decides to read book on Black astronaut to all students after parent complains about it
Instead of giving in to the complaint by a parent in the Rockwood School District, the book will now be read to the entire elementary school.
Brian Kelly
September 04, 2020 - 9:45 am
WILDWOOD, Mo. (KMOX) - The Rockwood School District is responding to a parent's complaint about a book that was read to a second-grade class, by having it read to the entire school.
The book is called "Ron's Big Mission," written about Astronaut Ron McNair the only Black member of the 1986 NASA Challenger crew. The book focuses on his fight to get a library card in segregated South Carolina when he was a kid growing up there in the 1950s.
But it apparently didn't sit well with one parent of Pond Elementary School.
After hearing it read to her 7-year-old during an online video chat, the parent urged other parents to "preview what we are letting the kids see on there." The statement was posted in a Facebook group for Concerned Parents of the Rockwood School District. The parent said she called the school about it.
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https://kmox.radio.com/articles/news/school-responds-to-complaint-about-book-on-black-astronaut
Instead of giving in to the complaint by a parent in the Rockwood School District, the book will now be read to the entire elementary school.
Brian Kelly
September 04, 2020 - 9:45 am
WILDWOOD, Mo. (KMOX) - The Rockwood School District is responding to a parent's complaint about a book that was read to a second-grade class, by having it read to the entire school.
The book is called "Ron's Big Mission," written about Astronaut Ron McNair the only Black member of the 1986 NASA Challenger crew. The book focuses on his fight to get a library card in segregated South Carolina when he was a kid growing up there in the 1950s.
But it apparently didn't sit well with one parent of Pond Elementary School.
After hearing it read to her 7-year-old during an online video chat, the parent urged other parents to "preview what we are letting the kids see on there." The statement was posted in a Facebook group for Concerned Parents of the Rockwood School District. The parent said she called the school about it.
<more>
https://kmox.radio.com/articles/news/school-responds-to-complaint-about-book-on-black-astronaut
Amazing. Just amazing how people want to pretend slavery and segregating never happened in the past so they can be self righteous and tone deaf in the present.
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"School decides to read book on Black astronaut to all students after parent complains about it" [View all]
krispos42
Sep 2020
OP
They want to pretend after slavery everything was great and after civil rights it was
JI7
Sep 2020
#1
What an excellent idea to combat racism! These children need to be educated about racism
Illumination
Sep 2020
#2
It sure as hell beats the way I learned acceptance (I won't stop at tolerance).
CaptYossarian
Sep 2020
#11
WOW CaptYossarian! Sorry for what you shouldn't have had to endure! Bullying is abuse
Illumination
Sep 2020
#13
Great advice. You're raising those girls RIGHT! The flag & book are very perceptive & show an
Illumination
Sep 2020
#30
I can't even imagine what her rationale was. What was the content of her warning..
LAS14
Sep 2020
#3
had a nice NPR story corp about him when he was a kid during segregation in texas.
pansypoo53219
Sep 2020
#15
Astronaut Ron McNair died along with the rest of the crew in the Challenger explosion in 1986
MagickMuffin
Sep 2020
#35