Incident in Petaluma prompts calls for schools to be more proactive in teaching about hate symbolsThree middle school students in a predominantly white suburb of northern California flashed a gesture associated with white supremacy in a basketball team photo, prompting the school to correct the yearbook which contained the photo. The Kenilworth junior high yearbook is not an isolated incident. School students in a predominantly white suburb of Chicago managed to sneak the same hand gesture into 18 photos of their yearbook. In a letter on the website, the district’s superintendent Joylynn Pruitt-Adams wrote: “Many students, not only our students of color, experience this gesture as a symbol of white supremacy. Rose, of the school district, said: “Those types of discussions are taking place in our classes right now, and it’s part of our curriculum in high school.

Source: The Guardian May 30, 2019 09:56 UTC