another antisemitic vandalism incident at Walt Whitman yesterday

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Other than this, how are things going at Whitman? Are you happy with everything but the anti semitism?

Isn't this just another example of routine hate crimes that go on here regularly? I can't imagine anyone is okay with that, but doubt it will get better until they diversify these schools.

Whitman is 33% non-white. What % does it need to be for you to consider it diversified enough?

[Anonymous]

As we all know diversity isn’t really about color but socioeconomic differences…. in other words class. Whitman is almost exclusively compromised of a population that hails from families that are highly educated, accomplished and wealthy. My child is a one Whitman student facilitator. She is presenting to kids that may look different but they are all carbon copies on the inside.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As we all know diversity isn’t really about color but socioeconomic differences…. in other words class. Whitman is almost exclusively compromised of a population that hails from families that are highly educated, accomplished and wealthy. My child is a one Whitman student facilitator. She is presenting to kids that may look different but they are all carbon copies on the inside.

That's a bit overstated. They're mostly well-off upper-middle-class families but hardly rich or particularly noteworthy. It's more the absence of poverty than anything that keeps the overall test averages high.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As we all know diversity isn’t really about color but socioeconomic differences…. in other words class. Whitman is almost exclusively compromised of a population that hails from families that are highly educated, accomplished and wealthy. My child is a one Whitman student facilitator. She is presenting to kids that may look different but they are all carbon copies on the inside.

I hope she doesn't have the attitude that kids are carbon copies. Trust me they're not.

[Anonymous]

And now we have swastikas found on desks at Wootton, Tilden, and Silver Creek.

https://bethesdamagazine.com/2023/01/21/swastikas-drawn-this-week-at-three-mcps-schools-district-announces/

So much for "No Place for Hate"?

[Anonymous]

Well, in a feeder elementary for one of these schools, in the town of caucasia, my child last spring was made fun of *by her teacher* *twice* about her Jewish food in her lunch. After being targeted all year. She was invited to a lunch bunch and both times the teacher said super loudly to her, in front of everyone else, "EEEWWW, pickles are soooo gross! I'm not sitting next to you! I won't even let those in my house!" Isn't that almost a cliche, don't make fun of a kid's ethnic food? Byyeeeeeee MCPS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Well, in a feeder elementary for one of these schools, in the town of caucasia, my child last spring was made fun of *by her teacher* *twice* about her Jewish food in her lunch. After being targeted all year. She was invited to a lunch bunch and both times the teacher said super loudly to her, in front of everyone else, "EEEWWW, pickles are soooo gross! I'm not sitting next to you! I won't even let those in my house!" Isn't that almost a cliche, don't make fun of a kid's ethnic food? Byyeeeeeee MCPS.

Omg, please tell me I am feeding a troll by answering this but just in case you are real …you are being WAY too sensitive. Making fun of pickles is in no way anti semetic behavior. Signed, a Jew Who Loves Pickles and Acknowledges They Are Smelly and Polarizing

PS - a teacher should not be teasing a kid about their lunch no matter what, though. but I stand by this not being anti semetic!

[Anonymous]

To the person who responded with the "way too sensitive" comment--wow.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:And now we have swastikas found on desks at Wootton, Tilden, and Silver Creek.

https://bethesdamagazine.com/2023/01/21/swastikas-drawn-this-week-at-three-mcps-schools-district-announces/

So much for "No Place for Hate"?

Were these drawn in places that only those who can get inside the school could do it? Is there a big group of antisemite tweens and teens planning a coordinated hateful graffiti incident?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And now this:

https://twitter.com/bdubbsonline/status/1604511608646025219?cxt=HHwWhoCy9dKzr8QsAAAA

Hate incidents are all too common at the W's. With incidents including kids in blackface or n* word cards, it's no surprise, but this seems to stem from the lack of diversity at these schools compared to the rest of the county.

At the more diverse schools, kids seem more understanding of others, unlike the segregated schools. This seems to happen constantly at the W's. Just search this forum and you'll another incident like this every couple of months at one of the W's. Sure, it's easy for some parents to pretend this goes on everywhere, but it doesn't. Incidents like this make the news.

+1000

[Anonymous]

Well, there were active KKK chapters in MoCo well into the late 1970s (like super obvious enough that my parents didn't move to certain areas--and also didn't move to Bethesda et al. bc of longstanding racist and antisemitic redlining in many--almost all--of those neighborhoods at the time). Who knows who's doing this though. Anecdotally, at my super diverse MCPS hs, my 12th grade math teacher, who was also a coach, was clearly antisemitic (as well as sexist, creating math word problems with girls and boys in the class). I'm sure he's retired by now. Had a white hs classmate who was super antisemitic and I'm sure it was from her parents. Another student, in my junior high, was assigned to be my companero in Spanish class and we were told to discuss/draw our heritage. She literally drew a swastika and explained that she was German. This was in the 90s.

There's so much political conspiracy stuff today that is antisemitic-adjacent, antisemitisms may be somewhat the same, and also somewhat different. But still there. btw. If someone tells you something is antisemitic, or racist, believe them. Also btw, please, don't whitesplain any of this. Oh, and yeah, MCPS should keep seriously addressing students being targeted with racism, antisemitism, Islamophobia, and all other evil forms of hate and terror. Many thanks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Well, in a feeder elementary for one of these schools, in the town of caucasia, my child last spring was made fun of *by her teacher* *twice* about her Jewish food in her lunch. After being targeted all year. She was invited to a lunch bunch and both times the teacher said super loudly to her, in front of everyone else, "EEEWWW, pickles are soooo gross! I'm not sitting next to you! I won't even let those in my house!" Isn't that almost a cliche, don't make fun of a kid's ethnic food? Byyeeeeeee MCPS.

Omg, please tell me I am feeding a troll by answering this but just in case you are real …you are being WAY too sensitive. Making fun of pickles is in no way anti semetic behavior. Signed, a Jew Who Loves Pickles and Acknowledges They Are Smelly and Polarizing

PS - a teacher should not be teasing a kid about their lunch no matter what, though. but I stand by this not being anti semetic!

+ 1 don't think pickles are a "jewish" thing only....I am from Central Europe (25% Jewish), and everyone here eats pickles....

[Anonymous]

not sure anyone claimed they are...please stop hairsplitting here. It was part of a pattern of targeting all year long. One of the last straws for me. Who knows what the fully conscious intent was, other than to be sadistic. My hope is that you never have to experience that with your child.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And now we have swastikas found on desks at Wootton, Tilden, and Silver Creek.

https://bethesdamagazine.com/2023/01/21/swastikas-drawn-this-week-at-three-mcps-schools-district-announces/

So much for "No Place for Hate"?

Were these drawn in places that only those who can get inside the school could do it? Is there a big group of antisemite tweens and teens planning a coordinated hateful graffiti incident?

They were drawn on desks, presumably inside the school buildings.

[Anonymous]

the mcps employee (a different one) I witnessed telling a Black child his overdue library book was "stolen" ...all in the same school within a few months, 2022.