Winning the War on Decorum
Put hundreds of people in room — White, Black, Hispanic, Asian — give them a mic and let them vent about school policies on the three scariest topics in life: race, sex and germs. The wonder is not that there’s an occasional blowup; the wonder is that there has not yet been another civil war.
Another parent recounted meeting Mamie Till, the mother of Emmett Till, who was 14 when he was lynched in Money Miss., in 1955. A White woman had claimed Till had whistled at her. Years later, she recanted the story. The speaker explained that Till’s mother had held an open coffin funeral to make sure that the world knew what had happened, that the truth would not be covered up, that history would not be forgotten.
I asked him later to describe the demands of the job on a day like that. In an email, he wrote that the board’s work requires, among other things, “listening to all constituents, no matter the viewpoint, while being challenged by a handful of citizens who place their behavior above the rest of the community.”Back at the mic, a speaker who identified herself as a therapist, gave an alarming account of her work.
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