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Parents, students urge Cobb County School District to address alleged antisemitic classroom materials; superintendent orders review
Summary
Multiple public commenters at the March 20 Cobb County School District board meeting described antisemitic or biased materials appearing in classroom lessons and CTLS resources and urged the district to require centralized vetting. Superintendent said he has launched an investigation and will report its findings.
At the Cobb County School District board meeting on March 20, several parents, students and community members told the board that classroom lessons and materials available through the district’s CTLS learning platform have contained biased or antisemitic content and asked the district to act.
The speakers said the materials included historical inaccuracies and imagery they described as antisemitic. "If this board refuses to take action, then you are complicit in this misinformation that fuels Jew hatred and endangers Jewish students," commenter Laura Ziss said during the public-comment period.
Why it matters: commenters said the allegedly problematic materials have harmed students and contributed to an unsafe climate for Jewish students across Cobb County schools. They urged the board to adopt stricter controls over classroom resources, require county-level vetting…
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