Black Education / Schools : A Black Student's Mother Complained About 'Fences.' He Was Expelled

[Clyde C Coger Jr]

...





A Black Student's Mother Complained About 'Fences.' He Was Expelled

A Black Student's Mother Complained About 'Fences.' He Was Expelled.

When the mother of a Black ninth grader at a private school in Charlotte, North Carolina, learned last month that his English class was going to be studying August Wilson's "Fences," an acclaimed play examining racism in 1950s America, she complained to the school.The drama, which won a Pulitzer...

news.yahoo.com

​

​

Marie Fazio​

​

​

​

Faith Fox and her son Jamel in Charlotte, N.C., on Dec. 9, 2020. (Travis Dove/The New York Times)​

​

...​

 

[umbrarchist]

The Yahoo link turns up other stuff.

Black Teen Expelled from School After Dispute Over August Wilson's 'Fences' - American Urban Radio Networks

A North Carolina Black teenager has been expelled from a predominately white private school after a dispute over the August Wilson play ‘Fences’ According to the New York Times, Faith Fox, who is a lawyer, was opposed to her son’s ninth grade English class reading the August Wilson play Fences...

aurn.com

Superficially it sounds like his mother is the problem but I am not going to read the play to see if she has a point.