Olympia school board responds after parents say BIPOC program amounts to segregation
The Olympia School District has been implementing smaller, more intimate learning models for the past few years in an effort to bring test scores up and get kids back on track after the COVID-19 pandemic.
A Black, Indigenous, and People of Color mentorship group was started at Centennial Elementary School a couple weeks ago, and it doesn’t sit right with some parents. School board president Darcy Huffman said the elementary school’s principal received a flurry of emails from people calling the group exclusionary because white students are not involved as well as a kind of segregation.
Members of the board responded to complaints during their regular meeting last week, assuring the public that the group will continue to exist.
Board member Talauna Reed said the BIPOC mentorship group is not the same thing as segregation. She said her mother actually experienced segregation going to school as a little girl. She said she was spit on, had rocks thrown at her and more, just for trying to go to school.
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