SOS - Support Our Students

Today two SOS members, Steve Swensen and Darryl Stamp, alongside two students of color Jones and Martindale, were interviewed on Radiowest regarding racism and education here in Davis County. If you missed it, you can listen to the whole hour long segment here.

https://radiowest.kuer.org/post/what-happening-davis-county-school-district

We are proud of both Tamyah and Brynn for being vulnerable and speaking their truth to their experiences and recommend everyone give it a listen.

What Is Happening In The Davis County School District? A Department of Justice report released in October detailed “serious and widespread” racist behavior against Black and Asian-American students in Utah’s

SOS is a community group for all Utahns we formed recently to give voice to the many people we hear from who do not like the tone in our schools or our community, do not want to see racism, but DO want their children to be taught perspective and empathy and support for others, yet who don't know how to speak up.

Joining SOS is how you can speak up! Watch the news story below to hear from a couple of our parents about how we can all be part of the solution.

Parents organize to demand Davis County schools confront racism, discrimination Even before the US Department of Justice investigation into the handling of racism and discrimination at the Davis School District and the recent su***de of 10-year-old Izzy Tichenor of North Salt Lake, parents were organizing to confront racism in the community and in schools. Now, those parents, w...

Other parent groups these days are giving school boards the FINGER—let’s give them a HAND instead 😉The influence of the common sense mainstream is being erased in our local school boards. Local school boards have become a battleground for national politics. Several of our school board members here in Utah have experienced threats and must now be provided increased personal security in their daily lives. Several local school boards meetings have been taken over by certain contingents. SOS believes there is a silent majority of community members who don’t like the way things are going, and recognizes that it’s time for that majority to raise its voice in peaceful and respectful discourse. (See link in Linktr.ee in. bio to read about the trend of national politics taking over local school board issues.)

Our website is under construction, but check back soon for resources and information. commonsensesupport.org (see link in bio for actual link)