Agreed. During the public meetings at DeKalb, a white parent talked about Evanston's "race and gender-based curriculums" and how DeKalb wouldn't stand for that "divisive teaching." Horton replied that if the community doesn't want those elements in the education, they wouldn't be incorporated. Whaaaa?!?! I thought that was one of his cen…
Agreed. During the public meetings at DeKalb, a white parent talked about Evanston's "race and gender-based curriculums" and how DeKalb wouldn't stand for that "divisive teaching." Horton replied that if the community doesn't want those elements in the education, they wouldn't be incorporated. Whaaaa?!?! I thought that was one of his central tenets as an "anti-racist leader." He didn't defend the D65 curriculum in the least.
I recognize the demographics of Dekalb are much different from Evanston (way fewer white students and overall poorer in Dekalb). I'd assume DeKalb wouldn't take on the LGBTQ+ portion of D65's school curriculum (given local politics/feelings among that community in Georgia), but completely abandoning the BLM curriculum so nonchalantly as a response from Horton took me a bit by surprise.
As someone else pointed out in another thread, I think he just says whatever he thinks the person he is talking to wants to hear in that immediate moment.
That Joyce Morley seems like she isn't interested in backing down with her disgust of Horton's hiring. It will be interesting to see how he navigates that. In Evanston he never had to deal with any division on the Board.
I personally don't think he is sophisticated enough to navigate that in a higher-visibility district. But we'll see.
Agreed. During the public meetings at DeKalb, a white parent talked about Evanston's "race and gender-based curriculums" and how DeKalb wouldn't stand for that "divisive teaching." Horton replied that if the community doesn't want those elements in the education, they wouldn't be incorporated. Whaaaa?!?! I thought that was one of his central tenets as an "anti-racist leader." He didn't defend the D65 curriculum in the least.
I recognize the demographics of Dekalb are much different from Evanston (way fewer white students and overall poorer in Dekalb). I'd assume DeKalb wouldn't take on the LGBTQ+ portion of D65's school curriculum (given local politics/feelings among that community in Georgia), but completely abandoning the BLM curriculum so nonchalantly as a response from Horton took me a bit by surprise.
As someone else pointed out in another thread, I think he just says whatever he thinks the person he is talking to wants to hear in that immediate moment.
That Joyce Morley seems like she isn't interested in backing down with her disgust of Horton's hiring. It will be interesting to see how he navigates that. In Evanston he never had to deal with any division on the Board.
I personally don't think he is sophisticated enough to navigate that in a higher-visibility district. But we'll see.