Renee Good’s kindergarten son attends a small “social justice” elementary faculty that teaches about George Floyd and “aboriginal points” — and lately warned staffers to report close by ICE brokers, The Submit has discovered.
Good, 37 — who was fatally shot by an ICE agent in Minneapolis Wednesday — has a 6-year-old on the Southside Household Constitution College, which believes in “involving kids in political and social activism” to battle “racism, sexism, classism and homophobia,” in line with its web site.
“From my understanding, she was concerned in social justice,” former instructor Rashad Wealthy stated of Good. “We’re a tight-knit neighborhood and plenty of mother and father are [activists].”
Wealthy, who resigned as fitness center teacher final month, stated the college teaches college students about “present occasions” — with subjects ranging the mass taking pictures on the native Church of Annunciation final yr, to the killing George Floyd in Minneapolis in 2020.
“They attempt to preserve present occasions part of the college,” he stated. “We’ve circle conversations the place we let youngsters specific fears and issues and sympathy.”
Some college students on the grade faculty, which lately additionally had center schoolers, went on journey to study “aboriginal points,” he stated.
When tons of of ICE officers had been stationed roughly ten blocks from the college — and stress with protesters started to boil — directors warned lecturers to report potential brokers on the property, Wealthy stated.
“We had talked about it if anyone sees ICE round we had been to report it,” he stated. “[Some parents] had been afraid to deliver youngsters to highschool.”
Good and her companion, Rebecca, typically dropped their 6-year-old off on the faculty collectively and had tender moments “saying goodbye.”
“He actually liked his mother and father, they walked him into faculty on a regular basis,” he stated, including they’d typically take a very long time in the course of the send-offs.
“He’s in an actual unhealthy place proper now,” Wealthy stated of the kid. “It’s a very unhappy, unhappy factor.”
The college teaches college students ages kindergarten by fifth grade and at present has solely about 25 college students, Wealthy stated.
It lately additionally taught by eighth grade, and had a inhabitants of 115 in the course of the 2022 to 2023 faculty yr, data present.
The college has a “distinctive curriculum [that] addresses racism, sexism, classism and homophobia” and is concentrated on “important considering, neighborhood engagement and activism,” in line with its web site.
Its mission is to fulfill “the wants of a culturally and ethnically various inhabitants by participating kids in important considering and downside fixing, involving kids in political and social activism, encouraging inventive expression,” its web site states.
“Our curriculum challenges college students to suppose critically and take motion of their communities,” it provides.
“By means of subject journeys and journey examine, college students interact with native organizations and real-world points, deepening their understanding of social justice and provoking them to make a constructive impression.”
Good was killed when she hit an ICE agent along with her SUV throughout an immigration operation within the residential neighborhood Wednesday – prompting the officer to open hearth in self-defense, in line with the feds.
Newly-surfaced video Friday confirmed Good’s spouse frightening the brokers from exterior the car earlier than yelling for her spouse to “drive, child, drive” proper earlier than Good accelerated towards the agent who finally fired three photographs into her driver’s aspect window.
