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New Hanover board declines to add review of Ibram X. Kendi book to meeting agenda; issue moved to curriculum committee
Summary
Board member Judy Justice asked to add a discussion about the removal of the book Stamped from an AP classroom; the motion to amend the agenda failed 5–2. Board members said the curriculum committee will review the matter.
Board member Judy Justice tried to add discussion of the book Stamped by Ibram X. Kendi to the May board meeting agenda, saying the book had been removed from a classroom 18 months earlier and that parents and teachers were seeking an explanation.
Justice said she wanted the matter on the public agenda “so the public can see we are doing something” and to get information about the promised alternative assigned for students while the original text was withheld. She told the board the curriculum staff member who had been tasked with identifying an alternative was present and that she expected the curriculum committee to take the matter up soon.
Other trustees pushed back. Trustee Josie Barnhart and Board Chair Melissa Mason said the curriculum committee was the proper venue for developing an alternative in a collaborative…
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