This publication has thus far been unable to obtain the addendum. The signatures came from an email “survey” that apparently was sent to hundreds of parents but very few members of the Jewish community, and there were few if any Jewish signatories to the June 23 letter. On June 23, the group issued a letter with about 225 signatures, then followed it up with an addendum that had another 400 signatures. The “vocal minority” refers to a group that attended the June 14 Mountain Brook School Board meeting to express opposition to the board’s relationship with the ADL, which has done faculty anti-bias training since February, and the ADL’s No Place for Hate curriculum was being considered for the coming year. On June 30, a group calling itself Mountain Brook Schools Alumni for Diversity started collecting signatures on an open letter to the Board of Education, to “express enthusiastic support” for the Diversity Committee and to “express concern” over the decision to disassociate from the ADL “in order to appease an extremely vocal minority of community members.” Photo from MBHS website.Īfter a city council meeting where Mountain Brook residents on both sides made remarks about the recent decision by city schools to disassociate from the Anti-Defamation League’s anti-bias training, opponents of the decision are fighting back.
