If we don't take action tonight, we really have to think about what message are we sending

to the kids and the victims of discrimination that have come.

It's late in the evening on August 3, 2020, and the Carroll School Board is more than

four hours into a virtual meeting.

It's that early stage of the pandemic when everything is on Zoom, which is why you're

going to hear some buffering sounds and dogs barking in the background.

As school board members try to navigate, the biggest controversy to hit the city of South

Lake probably ever.

That's Michelle Moore, the school board member who vowed to make changes after a video

of students yelling the N word went viral almost two years earlier.

Now she's school board president.

And tonight is supposed to be the night she delivers on her big promise, but things are

not going as she'd hoped.

What has happened in this community the last few days over a plan that was really trying

to create an environment that was safe and welcoming in our schools.

Moore is talking about all the angry emails, phone calls and text messages directed at

board members and school officials that week.

After the district released a copy of its proposed cultural competence action plan or

C cap for short.

That's the 34 page document that Russell Maryland and Nikki Ola, and more than 60 other volunteers

spent 18 months working on as members of the district diversity council or DDC.

Their plan calls for a bunch of changes, including new diversity and inclusion lessons for students

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