No St Patrick’s Day Celebrations

[Anonymous]

Did your public school celebrate St. Patrick’s Day? If so, it is a violation of Trumps new DEI measures. If there is no longer celebration of black culture in schools (mandated), there is no celebration of white culture. There have been several complaints to schools about this. There must be equity.

[Anonymous]

Why is st Patrick’s day a white holiday? I see black people drinking beer and wearing green. Are POCs also not allowed to celebrate Halloween (also from Ireland) or Valentine’s Day too??

What Trump is doing is wrong, but two wrongs don’t make a right.

[Anonymous]

Are you kidding me? No, you cannot eliminate one cultural celebration and allow another. The wrong here is that black kids are being told they cannot celebrate their culture while they watch white kids do it. That is outrageous. Everyone must be treated equally. You cannot hurt kids like that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why is st Patrick’s day a white holiday? I see black people drinking beer and wearing green. Are POCs also not allowed to celebrate Halloween (also from Ireland) or Valentine’s Day too??

What Trump is doing is wrong, but two wrongs don’t make a right.

OP didn't say that black people can't celebrate St. Patrick's Day. They said that if we can't have celebrations, or educational programming that celebrates or teaches about demographic groups, then St. Patrick's Day celebrations should be included in that. It's logical. It's also a good way to emphasize that this idea that, for example, boys in school can learn about and celebrate the success of the Women's suffrage movement, and white children can learn about and look up to Rosa Parks, just like POC can wear green.

[Anonymous]

White kids used to celebrate black culture too. Now they can’t. America apparently voted for that. Now, here we are.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why is st Patrick’s day a white holiday? I see black people drinking beer and wearing green. Are POCs also not allowed to celebrate Halloween (also from Ireland) or Valentine’s Day too??

What Trump is doing is wrong, but two wrongs don’t make a right.

OP didn't say that black people can't celebrate St. Patrick's Day. They said that if we can't have celebrations, or educational programming that celebrates or teaches about demographic groups, then St. Patrick's Day celebrations should be included in that. It's logical. It's also a good way to emphasize that this idea that, for example, boys in school can learn about and celebrate the success of the Women's suffrage movement, and white children can learn about and look up to Rosa Parks, just like POC can wear green.

Sorry but POC wearing green is not the same as white children learning about Rosa parks. False equivalency. Try again with your logic.

[Anonymous]

I don’t recall any public school celebrating St Patrick’s Day ever. How would one even celebrate? What is the tradition?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why is st Patrick’s day a white holiday? I see black people drinking beer and wearing green. Are POCs also not allowed to celebrate Halloween (also from Ireland) or Valentine’s Day too??

What Trump is doing is wrong, but two wrongs don’t make a right.

OP didn't say that black people can't celebrate St. Patrick's Day. They said that if we can't have celebrations, or educational programming that celebrates or teaches about demographic groups, then St. Patrick's Day celebrations should be included in that. It's logical. It's also a good way to emphasize that this idea that, for example, boys in school can learn about and celebrate the success of the Women's suffrage movement, and white children can learn about and look up to Rosa Parks, just like POC can wear green.

Sorry but POC wearing green is not the same as white children learning about Rosa parks. False equivalency. Try again with your logic.

Right, because one should be an essential part of education, and one is trivial one. But disallowing the trivial one is a way to highlight the lack of logic in the terrible decision to remove the essential part.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why is st Patrick’s day a white holiday? I see black people drinking beer and wearing green. Are POCs also not allowed to celebrate Halloween (also from Ireland) or Valentine’s Day too??

What Trump is doing is wrong, but two wrongs don’t make a right.

OP didn't say that black people can't celebrate St. Patrick's Day. They said that if we can't have celebrations, or educational programming that celebrates or teaches about demographic groups, then St. Patrick's Day celebrations should be included in that. It's logical. It's also a good way to emphasize that this idea that, for example, boys in school can learn about and celebrate the success of the Women's suffrage movement, and white children can learn about and look up to Rosa Parks, just like POC can wear green.

Sorry but POC wearing green is not the same as white children learning about Rosa parks. False equivalency. Try again with your logic.

Right, because one should be an essential part of education, and one is trivial one. But disallowing the trivial one is a way to highlight the lack of logic in the terrible decision to remove the essential part.

I mean, but let's play it out. If we're not allowed to discuss Rosa Parks in History Class because "DEI" surely discussing the Potato famine and English colonial attitudes to Ireland would also potentially be DEI? Are we just teaching "everyone in power was awesome and no one ever did anything wrong" because to do otherwise is "DEI"?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why is st Patrick’s day a white holiday? I see black people drinking beer and wearing green. Are POCs also not allowed to celebrate Halloween (also from Ireland) or Valentine’s Day too??

What Trump is doing is wrong, but two wrongs don’t make a right.

OP didn't say that black people can't celebrate St. Patrick's Day. They said that if we can't have celebrations, or educational programming that celebrates or teaches about demographic groups, then St. Patrick's Day celebrations should be included in that. It's logical. It's also a good way to emphasize that this idea that, for example, boys in school can learn about and celebrate the success of the Women's suffrage movement, and white children can learn about and look up to Rosa Parks, just like POC can wear green.

Sorry but POC wearing green is not the same as white children learning about Rosa parks. False equivalency. Try again with your logic.

Right, because one should be an essential part of education, and one is trivial one. But disallowing the trivial one is a way to highlight the lack of logic in the terrible decision to remove the essential part.

I mean, but let's play it out. If we're not allowed to discuss Rosa Parks in History Class because "DEI" surely discussing the Potato famine and English colonial attitudes to Ireland would also potentially be DEI? Are we just teaching "everyone in power was awesome and no one ever did anything wrong" because to do otherwise is "DEI"?

Yes. That is exactly what I have heard from the administration. So we have to push back on every single thing that is not equitable in our school system. As far as I’m concerned the goal is equity if you remove ““ DEI then you will need to remove the equivalent of everything else

[Anonymous]

That’s the argument they’ve been having about Bibles in schools. They’ve been saying that Bible should be put on the DEI book band list because of the violence.

[Anonymous]

*book ban

[Anonymous]

St Patrick’s Day is about cultural pride. That is no longer allowed according to the administration.

[Anonymous]

Ours didn’t celebrate St. Patrick’s Day. Never has. Did yours?

Do you think they will cancel MLK, Jr. Day?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ours didn’t celebrate St. Patrick’s Day. Never has. Did yours?

Do you think they will cancel MLK, Jr. Day?

I have worked in public schools where kids got permission to add green to their school uniform, or the art teacher did a project with rainbows and gold, or the elementary teachers chose this week to read a book about Ireland. I haven’t seen an all out celebration but definitely including it in the curriculum and culture of the school.