Lakewood is one of 60 schools across the country offering a new AP African American Studies class, district officials said currently they are on the only district in Ohio offering it.
LAKEWOOD, Ohio — Life is about perspective and sometimes you zoom out to get the full picture, but in Lakewood High School class 103, Austin Sparks and his students zoom in.
“Some people talk about politics and talk about how the BLM [Black Lives Matter] movement is like this, and why are people acting like this, well looking back on history the reason why people are acting like this is because of how history was,” said LHS junior Zoe Bowers. “We tripled what the goal was and what it comes down to is students at the end of the day want to learn about this and it shows,” said Sparks. ”A lot of them haven’t experienced their own history, especially my black students and they’re intrigued about learning about their own culture.”Early this summer some Ohio lawmakers introduced the Divisive Concepts Bill, looking ban teaching controversial or racist concepts in schools.
“It teaches you that the things you’ve been taught aren’t necessarily always true and the perspectives and ideas that you have about the African continent are not entirely true at all,” said Boyer.
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