During Carnival season, flocks of marching bands parade through the city streets even though jazz music and dancing has been banned in New Orleans public schools for almost a century.
A traditional brass jazz band plays the local party music on a street corner on March 17, 2022 in the Marigny neighborhood of New Orleans, Louisiana.The school board in the city where jazz took root is preparing to undo a little-known 1922 rule that bans jazz music and dancing in public schools.that the policy has racist origins, as its creators sought at the time to distance New Orleans schoolchildren from the African Americans who created the genre. The rule has been ignored for decades.
The board discussed the policy at a committee meeting Tuesday and planned to vote Thursday on reversing it. "It’s like if Colorado passed a rule banning students from looking at the Rocky Mountains," Ducote said.
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