JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Six days before The Bolles School announced it would not move forward with a planned diversity curriculum, the Board of Trustees and others received a message signed by five former board chairmen saying financial support was in jeopardy if the school adopted the curriculum.
“As a past board chairman, alumnus and past-parent, we are deeply concerned about the direction of our school,” the letter said in part.
The letter was signed by A. Chester Skinner III, Richard Dostie, Clancey Houston, Rodney McLauchlan and William Lynch — all of them former chairmen of the school’s Board of Trustees.
“It had absolutely no bearing on our decision to change course on our curriculum implementation,” Hodges said in an emailed response.
Ad“The Bolles School is committed, and as Head of School I am personally committed, to a comprehensive program of diversity and inclusion,” Hodges said.