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Sioux Falls School District 49-5 board approves routine business; resident urges Orwell and removal of DEI from district policy
Summary
At a regular meeting, the Sioux Falls School District 49-5 board approved minutes, the agenda and consent items. During public comment, resident Chad Bishop urged the board to require George Orwell's 1984 and Animal Farm for juniors and seniors and called for removal of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) from district policy.
Sioux Falls School District 49-5 board members approved routine business and heard a public comment urging curriculum changes at their July meeting.
Chad Bishop, a Sioux Falls resident, used his five-minute public comment to request that George Orwell’s 1984 and Animal Farm be required reading for all juniors and seniors districtwide and to ask that the district “remove every trace of DEI from district policy.” He also asked the board to add lesson plans on propaganda techniques to the social studies curriculum. "I…
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