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Perhaps another source would help.
This article cites the New York Post as its source. What's next? The Gateway Pundit?
Perhaps another source would help.
This article cites the New York Post as its source. What's next? The Gateway Pundit?
Renae, I've got something to share with you. It's a bit off-topic, but whatever.
This week I've been working with a Violence Prevention Counselor at a resale/women's center, and she told me something that made my jaw drop straight to the ground.
So a few years back she was teaching a diversity class, but she ended up losing the positon. You want to know why? Get this: it's because she was white, and some students were offended that a white person was teaching a diversity class.
If the NY Post is a tabloid, and I'm not really up on which papers in NY are or are not, I was in error and this should be moved and not be in BN.
It's published in tabloid format, but so what? Has it published facts about the Bank Street School? Do you dispute what are its reported facts? If you dispute them, then why haven't you provided evidence that the NY Post has misrepresented the facts rather than simply shooting the messenger here?
I had a division officer in the Navy who placed a black First Class Engineman in my place due to some inspection from the Command Managed Equal Opportunity Office inspection. The DIVO put him in my place as the Leading Petty Officer of the boat crews, and engine overhaul shop. I had 16 years of diesel overhaul experience with about 40-50 engine overhauls with 10 different manufacturers, and I was a qualified auxiliary craft coxswain for the MK-8, MK-6, LCU, and PBR assault craft. He had 15 years in and never was in a leadership, or technical advisory position, a total dunce.
After the man burnt up 2 Detroit diesel engines, 2-3 clutch systems, and collided with a Navy YTB (tug boat), the Division Officer was relieved of his position and I was ordered by the First Lt. to take over the operation again. Too late....... I requested orders to the USS Inchon and got them. The best decision that I ever made in the Navy.
EO programs breed incompetence.
If the NY Post is a tabloid, and I'm not really up on which papers in NY are or are not, I was in error and this should be moved and not be in BN. If you can provide articles showing the NY Post is off base, lying... I will accept I posted in error.
Elite K-8 school teaches white students they’re born racist | New York Post
The insanity of this **** is getting out of ****ing hand.
How do you fight racism? You teach every kid, that were all the same. We're all flesh and blood, we're all God's children, we're all people. So what if Jermaine has dark skin and Bobby is white? Who cares? You guys like playing tag, go play tag.
That's all that you need to do.
/smh
Should white students be taught that they are equal to black students implicitly or explicitly?
Personally, I fail to see how this translates into a useful life skill. Schoolchildren should be taught to respect themselves as individuals and their peers. Teaching racism, or sexism is retrograde, not progressive.
Perhaps another source would help.
The extreme program is run by Bank Street's director of diversity, Anshu Wahi, who said that even babies display signs of racism and encourages parents to make children as young as kindergarten age to talk about race, according to The Post.
She added that the answer to racism is for white kids to see the 'race in everything' and that the program merely empowers children of color who may otherwise feel 'alienated' and 'devalued in a 'dominant white culture'.
Segregating the children of color, she says, gives them a 'safe place' where they can share their 'ouch moments.'
There have also been concerns over the school screening of Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution, which depicts Panthers founder Huey Newton as a martyr.
And while parents claim that the program forces white children to feel guilty about acts of racism committed by people they have never met, Wahi believes it is the only way to stamp the institutional racism that still exists across the country.
Read more: New York school tells white kids they should be ashamed of their privilege | Daily Mail Online
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"I have a dream...."
And that dream is dead....
And yes, I can believe it.
What a ridiculous over-dramatization.
If you don't like a private school's curriculum, don't take your kids there.
Yes, this school teaches about racism. I don't know why you're exploding about how horrible this is.
The colorblind approach is a vehicle to ignore the remnants of racism that still pervade our society. Psychologists know that we are all cognitive misers, we are all lazy thinkers- all of our brains naturally group things into broad categories instead of as individuals. It takes a persistent, conscious, concentrated effort to maintain low prejudice, which is the goal.
Here's a power point with some info :
https://www.cpp.edu/~jsmio/401/powerpoints/racism.html
Note :
"Majority Identity Devleopment Model
- PRE-EXPOSURE STAGE--Little thought has been given to
multicultural issues or to one's own role as a majority group member
in a racist and oppressive society.
- EXPOSURE STAGE--The individual is confronted with the realities
of racism and prejudice. He or she is forced to examine his or her
own role as a majority group member. In this examination, it is learned
how the European-American view has been taken for granted as the
"proper" (only) view. Anger and guilt arise. Anger because it has always
been assumed that past ways of conceptualizing the world have been
thought to be fair and just. Guilt because the person realized his or her
naive acceptance of the "fairness" view, and that he or she has been
fostering subtle racism.
- ZEALOT-DEFENSIVE STAGE--One of two reactions: Become a
zealot for minority causes or become defensive about majority view
and perhaps even withdraw from finding out about multicultural views
altogether. In becoming a zealot, the person is reacting to his or her own
--or the majority culture's collective--guilt. It tends to be other-focused
rather than self-focused. In becoming defensive, the person either
attempts to have contact with majority culture individuals, or he or she
tries to defend majority culture values by pointing out all of the
"concessions" made by the culture to minority cultures.
- INTEGRATION STAGE--The overly strong feelings of the Zealot-
Defensive Stage subside, and a more balanced view takes its place.
Instead, a deeper appreciation of one's own culture allows one to have
a secure, self-confident identity, allowing for appreciation of other
cultures. One is able to accept differences both intellectually and
emotionally."
Notice how blindly leaving kids in the PRE-EXPOSURE stage is probably not a good idea.
This is what the school does, kids "of color" on the left, white kids on the right :
Doesn't seem that bad to me. Separating them is controversial, but the *horrible* message here is that some white kids had to watch black kids eat cupcakes ? Whoopty ****.
What a load of crap. They should teach the minority kids about "white culture" by making them continuously discuss Game of Thrones episodes while sipping Starbucks Lattes.
In the meantime I will "examine my whiteness" like this nutter liberal recommends. It shouldn't take me too long.
I'm not intimately familiar with their approach, but like i tried to say at the beginning, you probably shouldn't spend $~40,000/yr on an education at a private institution that you don't approve of.
This can't be much worse than private schools that teach how Jesus used to ride a dinosaur and that evolution is the devil's deception.
Elite K-8 school teaches white students they’re born racist | New York Post
The insanity of this **** is getting out of ****ing hand.
How do you fight racism? You teach every kid, that were all the same. We're all flesh and blood, we're all God's children, we're all people. So what if Jermaine has dark skin and Bobby is white? Who cares? You guys like playing tag, go play tag.
That's all that you need to do.
/smh
The winds of change are blowing. A hierarchy of needs no longer places autonomy and learning above "progress."When did discussion of race and sex become part of the curriculum?
When I was in school, there was just time for what we needed to learn at that level.
We didn't have a bunch of extra time for this kind of crap.
I don't have a problem with it if its a private school. I would recommend, however, taking your kid out of this school or doom him to a future in the food services industry.
It's what I'd call a quote that is floating in the air without anybody or anything it can attributed to. Tons of those in this article.
Yes, I've seen the slides, I've seen nothing to demonstrate that this is anything other than right wing whining about a school that isn't teaching about the time dinosaurs and humans walked together. Imagine, the shock of a school dealing with racism from a perspective where people actually discuss it instead of pretend that the statements of avowed racists like Trump have merit and it's politically correctness to criticize them!
Of course you don't. Just like you can't see the part where the article flat out denies systemic racism in the US today, or the part where the article hides behind anonymous parents and equates asking people not to stereotype Muslims to sympathizing with terrorists.
Carry on with the faux outrage.
:roll:
I don't have a problem with it if its a private school. I would recommend, however, taking your kid out of this school or doom him to a future in the food services industry.
It is described as an elite progressive school. I doubt there is any truth to the story, but if there is the unnamed parent should move her student to another school.
I'm not even moved, much less outraged, so you carry on with your self-justifying fantasy.
From Wiki: The New York Post is an American daily newspaper, primarily distributed in New York City and its surrounding area. It is the 13th-oldest and seventh-most-widely circulated newspaper in the United States.Established in 1801 by federalist and Founding Father Alexander Hamilton, it became a respected broadsheet in the 19th century New York Evening Post. The modern version of the paper is published in tabloid format.
"Tabloid" refers to size, but I'm guessing your intended meaning is "sensationalistic."
Where did you see these Banks School presentation slides? Can the rest of us view them? I ask because some of what you bizarrely call "half-quotes" appear to be descriptive text taken from those slides.
Parents and public officials often "hide" behind anonymity, but I also provided you with an article from the New York Times published over a year ago that discusses this "affinity group" trendlet. Did you bother to read it? As I say, I wouldn't want to interfere with your whipping yourself up here and making a lot out of nothing, but I am curious anyway.
Educators who do this work in New York private schools say one of the challenges white students face when exploring their own identity is the dearth of white anti-racist role models. They say white students have traditionally been offered only three ways to confront race: to be colorblind, ignorant or racist.“Those are not happy identities,” said Beverly Daniel Tatum, the president of Spelman College and the author of “Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?”
With that in mind, the Trevor Day School on East 89th Street spends at least some time every year honoring the white civil rights activist Andrew Goodman, who was killed in Philadelphia, Miss., in 1964, while working to register black voters. This year, the school invited Mr. Goodman’s brother, David, to speak at the school.
Or he's gonna go around suffering from "white guilt" all his life.