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    Black Lives Matter debate takes center stage at Burlington Area School District meeting

    One by one, they lined up and stepped up to the microphone in the echo-filled confines of the Burlington High School gymnasium on Monday. An emotionally charged conversation about the Black Lives Matter movement — and its place within the classroom — ensued. Some of the residents, parents and faculty described Melissa Statz, a fourth-grade teacher at Cooper Elementary School, 249 Conkey St., as a bold trailblazer. Other speakers, however, admonished her introduction of unauthorized curriculum. For nearly two hours, the Burlington Area School District Board offered up the public comment portion of the agenda for residents to share their ...


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    How one teacher's Black Lives Matter lesson divided a small Wisconsin town

    In late August, during the second week of school in Burlington, Wisconsin, Melissa Statz heard children in her fourth grade class talking about Kenosha. A couple of students had seen burned and boarded-up buildings in the nearby city, but they didn’t know the details of the protests that filled the streets after a police officer shot Jacob Blake, a Black man, in the back on Aug. 23. One student asked Statz, 30, if she knew what was going on in Kenosha, which is a half-hour drive from Burlington, a town of 11,000 that is 89 percent white. Statz thought this ...


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