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Indiana School District Plans Segregated Field Trip

Third-graders in seven schools are touring local colleges. But only the black kids can participate.

An Indiana public school district segregated elementary field trips last week when administrators included only African-Americans on the college introduction tour.

 

South Bend Community Schools Corporation has planned a series of field trips to three local colleges for black third-graders in seven school districts. The excursions began last week with a trip to Ivy Tech Community College.

Dr. G. David Moss, the director for the African-American student-parent services with the South Bend Community Schools Corporation, told ABC 57 that he wanted the third-grade students to begin to think of themselves attending college.

“I was hired to look at the issues facing African-American kids in the South Bend Community Schools Corporation and my job specifically says that I need to develop programs and develop strategies to help these kids and their families become more successful academically,” Moss said.

However, many families, including those with children who can attend the field trips, said the field trips were exclusionary and discriminatory in nature.

 

Daniel Luzer is GOVERNING's news editor.
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