Tell me about the white Party at glen echo tomorrow night?
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Anonymous
| It's an embarrassing spectacle. |
Anonymous
#triggered |
Anonymous
| PP here - our DD declined to attend because it was so "hyped" at her school. Kids buy expensive dresses, act all "holier-than-thou" because they are raising money for charity - and it's just a big dress up act. PP says a lot of people commenting have no idea what the charity does? Neither do the kids. If you want to be a queen bee or otherwise popular, you go. If you have your own path, you might choose not to. Our DC did not want to go to a charity event for a charity DC was not connected with at all, just to be seen there. It took some guts (everyone who was anyone was going and talking about it all the time), but I admire DC's decision not to do something like that just to be "in." |
Anonymous
| Oh Boo Hoo to the pp saying it is just a spectacle. Say what you want about the event but when it comes down to it- that scholarship money is needed to keep the Cristo Rey mission alive. Do the students at Cristo Rey that are benefiting from the raised money have a complaint? It’s so easy to throw stones at these teens because they are wealthy- this is complete liberal bs. |
Anonymous
Please tell me this is a typo and you know it's "attire". Please. |
Anonymous
PP here. You misunderstood me. Some guests were asked to bring actual tires to donate to lower-income families. Car tires are actually really expensive if you buy them new. |
Anonymous
Yes, of course. Typing on my phone and the "at-" disappeared. Do you all not realize that most of the typos on DCUM are due to typing skills/fat fingers not stupid people? A "your" instead of "you're" or a "there" instead of "their" is one thing. A mis-spelled word or obviously missing letters is another entirely. Come on.... |
Anonymous
If they really wanted to help they would pay for a ticket and then also donate all the $$$ they paid for dresses and stay home. That would be a huge benefit to Cristo Rey. The kids are excited because of what they get out of it. |
Anonymous
Why can’t it be a win - win?? |
Anonymous
I’m a former DBCR teacher and this whole thread is intriguing to me. On one hand, I totally get that raising money (and a substantial amount at that) is extremely necessary to keep the school running (the students working only earn about half of what a school-running tuition would cost—the rest needs to be made up through donations, endowments, charity events like this party, etc.). But, man, the juxtaposition of wealthy (majority white) middle schoolers going to a party called a “white party” (I know... attire... I know...) to raise money for DBCR students (who are of color) is jarring. I mean the DBCR uniform is even black! What the pp said above really resonated with me while reading though this entire thread. While obviously the school and the students need funding (I mean hey thanks for paying my $38,000/year salary! Also weird that I got paid due in part to middle schoolers attending a party), doing so in ways like this seems... detached? Tone deaf? Alienating? Weird? How many people concerned about this “charity” actually step foot in the school and interact with the students and teachers there? And the few that do (DBCR becomes like a pet project for some wealthy people) can be nauseatingly tone deaf. Examples: A group of young women gigging nervously saying things like, “awww, these students are so CUUUUTE!” (to students’ faces, of course), a wealthy white man literally PATTING A STUDENT ON THE HEAD and saying, “well aren’t you something?”, a white women asked a student giving a tour if he learned how to speak “such proper English! Wow!” at the school, etc. I think another pp used the word “icky” to describe what this kind of a fundraiser feels like. I tend to agree—it makes the students into a “feel good” project but it does little to teach empathy or—really—just normal social behavior/decency when we’re around people that don’t look like us (or are of the same socioeconomic class). I think that’s an even more important take away than just feeling good about helping “poor kids,” right? I don’t know. Donate and party if you want, but I do think the other side of this thing is something worth considering. |
Anonymous
You are so weird. Have you been living in a time capsule? Just because a girl doesn't want to wear a dress means they hang with a different crowd? Hilarious! 
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Anonymous
| So there was alcohol there? My 8th grader said one of the girls at her school got drunk while at this party and fainted/passed out. |
Anonymous
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So many ways to smuggle alcohol into an event these days ...
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Anonymous
Oh, didn’t you raise such a WONDERFUL child!! 
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Anonymous
Like this generation invented that? Hahahahahaha! Signed, A creative Baby Boomer |