Lauren Major work on an art project emphasizing the values of racial diversity. It's a tribute to our students who want to learn about people who are not like themselves. They're also writing a newspaper that traces the dreams and promises after slavery's end. We talk a lot about slavery. A lot of problems we still live with today are traceable back to slavery.
Slavery is a shared experience.
It is not a black experience. The class, now in its second year, is taught by Ms. Loechle, an English teacher who is white, and Pam Smith-Dobbins, a social studies teacher who is black. That itself, Ms. Loechle said, sends a subtle message to students, who see teachers of different races as friends working cooperatively. The class is timely, given Cincinnati's race riots last month. Shelby Stone, a junior from Paddock Hills, works on her diversity art project.