Please Act: write or testify: support the Global Community Citizen course at AACPS. See info from AAC NAACP.

The AACo Board of Ed will vote tomorrow to add a new graduation requirement: a global citizenship class for all incoming AACPS ninth graders to help them build empathy across differences (race, religion, political spectrum). Accountability partners and SURJ3A want them to VOTE FOR the Global Community Citizen (GCC) course as a graduation requirement in light of the dangerous pattern of racial incidents shown in the table below the signature line of this email.

• julie.hummer@aacps.org
• mcorkadel@aacps.org
• rleib@aacps.org
• terry.gilleland@aacps.org
• mkellis@aacps.org
• dschallheim@AACPS.org
• cantwine@aacps.org
• eric.grannon@aacps.org
• jurrea@aacps.org

• Wed, Feb 6 @10am – Carol S. Parham Building – 2644 Riva Road, Annapolis, MD 21401
• To testify on this agenda item ‘Action Item – Policy Revisions – Third Reading – 6.05 Graduation Requirements – Code IIC’: Upon arrival at the meeting, fill out a testimony card, and an invitation will be made to the audience with the agenda item comes up for board discussion (sometime after 12:15 per the draft agenda attached.)

To help ensure productive and meaningful implementation of the policy change after tomorrow‘s vote, we have developed a list of recommendations you are encouraged to source in your emails and testimony to the board HERE.

In Solidarity,

C.J. Meushaw

Linda Girdner

Lynda Davis

Melissa Merritt

* Below is an incomplete table of known racial incidents in AACPS that SURJ3A developed at the request of AACo NAACP branch President Jacqueline Allsup. Each incident represents a dangerous threat to the safety of all of our students, the families, AACPS staff, and neighbors.