If all of the students being singled out consented to it, then I don't necessarily fault the school that much. Part of the yearbook should be giving student's control over what's in it and how to approach these type of topics. Of course oversight is required, but if the yearbook supervisor teacher was told by all the students that's how they wanted to capture the BLM protests and express their support for one another, then I can see where they are coming from even if it was pretty stupid to allow it. I can even understand the school being 'afraid' of the optics if the students came up with an idea to show support for BLM and Black students in their yearbook and being told they couldn't.
However, if one or two students said during the focus group that they should just put all the Black students on a page and then never asked each one how they felt, that's obviously a huge oversight to allow that to happen.
The obviously solution though would just to have some form of diversity student group, whether it's to discuss Black, LGBT, women, minority, Indigenous issues, or all of the above, and then post the students who were in that group to the page. You know, actually having a group to try and do something about minority issues instead of just acknowledging that minorities exist.
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