"School is a safe place to have these conversations."
Over at the Altamont Enterprise, Elizabeth Floyd Mair looks at the opposition that arose on the Guilderland school board to the use of a novel that touches on police brutality in a 10th grade English class. (The book was ultimately approved.) Said a high school administrator: "[U]ltimately our responsibility in high school and public education is to prepare our kids to be successful upon graduation, whether they want to go to college, into the workforce, into the military, or start a family, and when they arrive at their final destination, the lifelong destination, we want to make sure that they're at least able to handle and engage in difficult conversations, or at least be informed about what's going on around them." [Altamont Enterprise]
... said KGB about Drawing: What's something that brought you joy this year?