CMS Responds To Offensive Door Decorations At A Charlotte High School

Gary Brode,

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A picture is going around social media that shows two doors at West Charlotte High School.

One door is labeled “colored entrance”, the other door is labeled “white entrance”. Above is a sign that is labeled “sears department store – 1930”.

CMS sent WCCB Charlotte this statement:

“The school district is required to provide social studies and history lessons to all our students in an age-appropriate manner. Teachers at West Charlotte High School decorated doors that displayed inappropriate content. The activity is not aligned to State Standards or with CMS curriculum and approved lesson plans.

Once school leadership was made aware of the doors, the displays were immediately removed. This happened over the course of a few hours in one school day on February 14, 2024.

Moving forward, the district’s teachers will be retrained in the specific social studies curriculum practices that can be utilized in lesson plans to teach students.”