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Under HB 322, should a teacher or school district wish to inform her students of this history, she is forbidden to teach it or refer to is as deliberate, systemic racism.

HB 327 makes illegal the State Board of Education, school districts, schools, staff, and teachers instructing students that such things as slavery in the United States, or the Jewish Holocaust.

In Ohio’s distant history, our laws prohibited Black people from voting. Or holding office. Or serving on juries. Or even testifying in court against white people.

When communities such as mine are uplifted and supported, we’re also included, which is something every minority community strives for, along with equity

It’s clear the vast majority of school incidents can be handled by teachers or school administrators and should not merit police intervention. But Cincinnati Public Schools has created a culture of calling SROs at any sign of misbehavior, no matter how small.

I think about Mr. Nguyen every single time I hear about another police shooting. Every. Single. Time.

No one else should ever have to experience the feeling of shaking when you walk past cops in your very own school hallways, the automatic reaction of choking up at just the sight of the administrators that were supposed to protect you.

Make no mistake, anti-Asian sentiments have long been ingrained within the systems of the United States in their own ways.

It’s been over five years since the city of Cleveland entered into a settlement agreement with the (DOJ, mandating that Cleveland make specific, compressive reforms to its police department. Yet, here we are at the end of 2020, and there is still much work to be done.