{"id":1095845,"date":"2021-12-07T18:44:51","date_gmt":"2021-12-07T23:44:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1095845"},"modified":"2021-12-07T18:44:57","modified_gmt":"2021-12-07T23:44:57","slug":"massachusetts-middle-school-offers-racially-segregated-safe-spaces-for-students-to-process-rittenhouse-arbery-verdicts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/massachusetts-middle-school-offers-racially-segregated-safe-spaces-for-students-to-process-rittenhouse-arbery-verdicts\/","title":{"rendered":"Massachusetts Middle School Offers Racially Segregated &#039;Safe Spaces&#039; for Students to &#039;Process&#039; Rittenhouse, Arbery Verdicts"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmassachusetts-middle-school-offers-racially-segregated-safe-spaces-for-students-to-process-rittenhouse-arbery-verdicts%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1095845&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Kyle-Rittenhouse-and-His-Attorney-3-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Bigelow Middle School in Newton, Massachusetts, <a href=\"https:\/\/defendinged.org\/incidents\/bigelow-middle-school-offers-racially-segregated-safe-spaces-for-students-to-process-rittenhouse-and-arbery-verdicts\/\">hosted<\/a> racially segregated \u201csafe spaces\u201d in order for students to be able to \u201cprocess\u201d the verdicts in the Kyle Rittenhouse and Ahmaud Arbery cases.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Kyle Rittenhouse conclusion will likely be seen as yet another unfair reality for many Bigelow families, staff, and students\u2014particularly our community members of color,\u201d a December 1 letter to students from Principal Chassity Coston reads, continuing, \u201cwhile the Ahmaud Arbery conclusion may be seen as a glimpse of hope and justice.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Coston offered three sessions: a forum for discussion with peers, a case information session, and a separate \u201cQuestions &amp; Discussion for Students of Color,\u201d in which students of racial minority groups are encouraged to \u201cCome together with other Bigelow students of color to process and get answers to any questions you have regarding these two cases.\u201d White students are apparently not allowed in the discussion.<\/p>\n<p>Coston appears to be a proponent of racial activism and an adherent to Critical Race Theory. At a conference, she claimed that she \u201cenjoyed the learning, unlearning, safe spaces, and unapologetic advocacy &amp; support for our students of color,\u201d and posted a picture of a slideshow apparently titled \u201cHow Systemic Racism Works: Educational Inequality in an Era of \u2018Equality.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"12.266666666667\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">My first <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/METCOIncHq?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@METCOIncHq<\/a> Conference! I enjoyed the learning, unlearning, safe spaces, and unapologetic advocacy &amp; support for our students of color. <\/p>\n<p>I love this work, simply. Thank you, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/newton_ps?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@newton_ps<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RjlonPBwv1\">pic.twitter.com\/RjlonPBwv1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ms. Coston (@ChassityCoston) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChassityCoston\/status\/1466881113960427522?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 3, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>In another Twitter post about the district\u2019s \u201cFall BIPOC [Black, Indigenous Persons of Color] gathering,\u201d Coston said she \u201cremember[ed] a time [she] feared repercussion for wearing this shirt to work,\u201d implying it was brave to wear a shirt that reads \u201cblack educators matter.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"13.325301204819\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I thoroughly enjoyed our district\u2019s Fall BIPOC gathering, &amp; even more enjoyed the affirmations from my students, faculty, &amp; colleagues who appreciated the unapologetic representation within a space where we make up less than 5%. Lord, I thank you daily for placement &amp; purpose.\u2728<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ms. Coston (@ChassityCoston) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChassityCoston\/status\/1449533436906070018?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 17, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Racial segregation is not a new phenomenon in Newton Public Schools, however.<\/p>\n<p>As Breitbart News previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/11\/29\/segregation-for-racial-justice-massachusetts-principal-promises-racially-divided-spaces-over-rittenhouse-verdict\/\">reported<\/a>, Newton North High School Principal Henry Turner responded in a similar way, offering racially segregated spaces over the Rittenhouse verdict. In his justification, Turner appeared to \u201chave a fundamental misunderstanding&nbsp;of the Rittenhouse case, where the then-17-year-old shot three white individuals in self-defense, killing two of them, during riots in Kenosha, Wisconsin,\u201d saying, \u201cThere is a long history of acquittals such as this&nbsp;<strong>when white people get off for murdering black people<\/strong>. To ignore racism in these situations just empowers racism.\u201d [Emphasis added].<\/p>\n<p>Turner also explained that the \u201cdivisive case will be seen as a blow&nbsp;particularly to black and brown people who are regularly reminded that their bodies are treated as less than others.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Breccan F. Thies<\/em>&nbsp;<em>is a reporter for Breitbart News. You can follow him on Twitter&nbsp;<a title=\"This external link will open in a new window\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreccanFThies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@BreccanFThies<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bigelow Middle School in Newton, Massachusetts, hosted racially segregated \u201csafe spaces\u201d in order for students to be able to \u201cprocess\u201d the verdicts in the Kyle Rittenhouse and Ahmaud Arbery cases. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":179,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1095845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1095845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/179"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1095845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1095845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1095845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1095845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1095845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}