By Kaci Jones
Rochester City School District (RCSD) will join dozens of other school
districts across the county observing Black Lives Matter at School Day
on Friday, February 17th. It’s the first time the district will
participate.
Chris Widmaier is an instructional coach and science teacher at World
of Inquiry School (School #58) and he looks a lot different than the
majority of his students.
"As a white teacher I can't relate at all to the experience of being
black so my job is to listen to students and their families and
understand the bigger picture,” Widmaier said.
According to the most recent demographics, students in RCSD are 59
percent Black, 27 percent Latino, and 10 percent Caucasian. The teachers
however are a different story. The district says most of the teachers
are white.
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Source: News10 WHEC (via The Empire Report)
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