Dallas school assignment asking if accused Kenosha shooter is modern-age hero draws outcry

[RandySF]

A controversial assignment given to students at W.T. White High School in Dallas has drawn criticism and outcry for implying that accused Kenosha shooter Kyle Rittenhouse is a “hero.”

The assignment, titled “Hero for the Modern Age,” asked students to write a half-page biography about each of six potential “heroes” and then write an essay about one of them. In addition to Rittenhouse, the list included Mahatma Gandhi, Cesar Chavez, Malcolm X, George Floyd, and Joseph Rosenbaum. The names of Gandhi and Malcolm X were misspelled, according to viral photos of the assignment.

Rosenbaum was one of the two people killed in the shooting Rittenhouse was accused of committing. The shooting, which also left a third person injured, occurred at a protest in Kenosha, Wis., where demonstrators were responding to the police shooting of a Black man.

The assignment quickly garnered attention and complaints on social media. About 90% of DISD students are Black or Latino.

Dallas school officials said the assignment had been brought to their attention and that students would not be asked to complete it.




https://www.dallasnews.com/news/education/2020/09/16/dallas-school-assignment-asking-if-accused-kenosha-shooter-is-modern-age-hero-draws-outcry/

[Demovictory9]

1. Wtf

[Cha]

2. Stupid Ass question.. he's GD Murderer, Idiots.

[struggle4progress]

3. ... Warren Travis White High School is ... named in honor of the Dallas school superintendent who

served from 1946 to 1968 ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._T._White_High_School

Dallas ISD - A long road to desegregation

By Ryan Holmes

... As the Fall of 1954 came, Dallas dug its heels in against the perceived federal overreach of the Supreme Court decision earlier that same year. Dallas Times Herald on September 2, 1954, quoted then DISD superintendent Dr. W.T. White .. as saying that Dallas public schools “definitely will not end segregation ... The opinion of the Supreme Court announced May 17 (1954) was one of philosophy and policy and not a directive or a decree directing that segregation be done, and ... The schools of Texas are operated under the laws enacted by the Legislature pursuant to the Constitution. In Texas, the Constitution prescribes segregation” ... According to the Herald, “The superintendent said local school boards ‘have no option except to carry on the legally constituted segregated schools as presently organized’” ...