Marie Fazio writes: “When the mother of a Black 9th grader at a private school in Charlotte, N.C., learned last month that his English class was going to be studying August Wilson’s Fences, an acclaimed play examining racism in 1950s America, she complained to the school. Faith Fox, a lawyer and single mother, said in an interview that she imagined her son’s mostly white class at the Providence Day School reading the dialogue out loud. She said her main concern was that the themes were too mature for the group and would foster stereotypes about Black families. On the day after Thanksgiving, the school notified Ms. Fox that Jamel would no longer be attending the school, the only one he had ever known.”