New York Couple Decided to Take Their Kids Out Upstate New York School District After Years of Unchecked Racism
A New York couple recently made the decision to remove their children from the Pittsford Central School District, located 8 miles outside of Rochester, New York. Victoria Love took her 6th and 11th grader out of the district to a smaller school after they were faced with racist slurs.
“My husband and I made the tough decision to remove our students because we felt like five years was long enough. … A lot of the racist incidents do involve Black students, but it’s not only Black students,” Love told Atlanta Black Star.
Pittsford School District has already been in the news, after an New York Times article about a series of racist incidents that has happened over the past couple of years. The district has a student population of 5,588 with 4,249 of the students are white, 172 are Black, 641 are Asian, 294 are Hispanic or Latino and 278 identify as multiracial according to Atlanta Black Star.
The racist incidents include Black soccer players being called racist slurs and hearing monkey sounds at a game, repeated use of the N-word from white students towards their Black classmates and in September. A vide shows a white Pittsford student with a toy gun in hand claiming he wanted to kill Black people.
“The students at that particular high school, were scared, and the point of someone making a video like that is to frighten and harm other people,” Love said speaking about the racist video. In 2015, Love and her family moved to Pittsford, New York from San Diego, California, to be closer to her husband’s family and to give their children a high-quality education.
Love and several parents pleaded for years with the Pittsford Central School District to do something about the culture of racism within its school. Love says the district chose to offer statements alleging they are addressing racism rather than do something tangibly.
Love said says she would rather see the district hire more diverse teachers, and ensure assignments are culturally sensitive, which include assigned reading material containing racial slurs explained with sensitivity.
“Learning about racism and learning how to treat other people starts at home, but some parents don’t have the right tools because if you’re white and you don’t know people of color and if they don’t have family members that are people from diverse groups how can they understand well enough what the issues are,” she said.
Despite some reluctant Pittsford residents to address racial issues directly, Love applauds the parents and student who are willing to call out racism.
The Pittsford Board of Education appointed Vincent French, who is Black, to serve as Coordinator of Equity and Inclusivity on Nov. 15, 2021. Love says she hope French has the support to make a difference so students of color.
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