Is your MSer learning the 13 Guiding Principles of BLM?

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Anonymous wrote:This is insane. If you object you are marked a racist. BLM is an ideology, plain and simple. MCPS’s mission should not be teaching ideology to my children. I am all for teaching children not to be racist, but not according to the tenets of BLM.

I adamantly object and I am anything but a racist. If I find out this is going on in my kids' classrooms, I will pull them out of class while these sessions are going on. It's really quite simple.

Right....

Let me give you a clue - if you ever find yourself exclaiming that you aren't a racist...you are probably a racist.

Don't worry, you have plenty of company.

This is bullying to the nth degree. You are labeled a racist if you disagree with schools teaching BLM ideology. Many of us don’t believe in viewing everything through a racial lens. The fact that there is so much divisive vitriol on this thread demonstrates the divisiveness of the BLM movement. It is dividing our society and will never bring us together. There are other ways to go about teaching people not to be racist and the BLM ideology and CRT is not the way to do it.

Awww, all racists hate it when you call them a racist. So I’ll do it again. You are unequivocally a racist. Be better. At least your kids in public schools will be more educated and empathetic than you.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Prepare for your head to explode: I taught the 13 principles to my kindergarteners. Each class in our school adopted one of the principles to study in depth, from prek to 8th grade.

Please stop pushing your political agenda on impressionable children. BLM is an organization that supports a guy who tried to murder a police officer. They also couldn't care less about white people killed by police officers, and that is why they are a racist organization.

BLM is not even an organization so maybe you could use an education.

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CRT is little more than hateful name-calling as this thread proves. I will remove my child from this portion of class.

[Anonymous]

OP here

I mostly was wondering if this was school specific to my kid’s MS, and it appears that is the case.

I appreciate all the responses, on both sides. It will actually help me formulate a more concise argument when I raise this with admin as to why I find it problematic that they spent an hour on this in HERD/Advisory today.

FWIW, I am not White. I am Latina. (Not Latinx, because that is not even a real word in Spanish).

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Anonymous wrote:This one is interesting!

11. Black Villages
We are committed to disrupting the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement by supporting each other as extended families and “villages” that collectively care for one another, and especially “our” children to the degree that mothers, parents and children are comfortable.

If that is “interesting” you don’t understand it.

In the Republican goals in 2016 (because they didn’t even update it in 2020) they wanted the legal definition of “nuclear family” to only include a family with a female mom and male dad... so widow ... not a family.

[Anonymous]

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I mostly was wondering if this was school specific to my kid’s MS, and it appears that is the case.

I appreciate all the responses, on both sides. It will actually help me formulate a more concise argument when I raise this with admin as to why I find it problematic that they spent an hour on this in HERD/Advisory today.

FWIW, I am not White. I am Latina. (Not Latinx, because that is not even a real word in Spanish).

And just like that the world passed you by.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Seems like it's happening in all blue states and blue cities:

https://spectrumnews1.com/ca/la-west/education/2021/02/16/blm-at-school-week-of-action-instated-in-california-schools

Just like teaching evolution

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:OP here

I mostly was wondering if this was school specific to my kid’s MS, and it appears that is the case.

I appreciate all the responses, on both sides. It will actually help me formulate a more concise argument when I raise this with admin as to why I find it problematic that they spent an hour on this in HERD/Advisory today.

FWIW, I am not White. I am Latina. (Not Latinx, because that is not even a real word in Spanish).

And just like that the world passed you by.

Damn shame. But you can't make people change. Which is why it is crucial to teach the kids better from the start.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:OP here

I mostly was wondering if this was school specific to my kid’s MS, and it appears that is the case.

I appreciate all the responses, on both sides. It will actually help me formulate a more concise argument when I raise this with admin as to why I find it problematic that they spent an hour on this in HERD/Advisory today.

FWIW, I am not White. I am Latina. (Not Latinx, because that is not even a real word in Spanish).

And just like that the world passed you by.

Maybe. Wood MS is a diverse school, with a sizable Latino population. I can assure you that many families will read these 13 principles and find a few that they might disagree with. And wonder why it’s being taught AT school.

Or, maybe not. You could be right.

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Anonymous wrote:I could understand teaching this if the goal was to educate students on the stated goals of BLM as a political movement, but one suspects the goal is to promote allegiance among students to those principles.

If it is the latter, the teacher and any administrators who are responsible need to be fired immediately.

Yeah it is a huge issue in our society today and it would make sense for kids to learn about it, especially since there is a lot of confusion about it. Many don’t even know that Black Lives Matter is an organization.

But no my kids have been taught this.

I don't want it taught to my kids. They have very bias viewpoints. Mine know what it is but don't like how they spin things either.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:OP here

I mostly was wondering if this was school specific to my kid’s MS, and it appears that is the case.

I appreciate all the responses, on both sides. It will actually help me formulate a more concise argument when I raise this with admin as to why I find it problematic that they spent an hour on this in HERD/Advisory today.

FWIW, I am not White. I am Latina. (Not Latinx, because that is not even a real word in Spanish).

And just like that the world passed you by.

Maybe. Wood MS is a diverse school, with a sizable Latino population. I can assure you that many families will read these 13 principles and find a few that they might disagree with. And wonder why it’s being taught AT school.

Or, maybe not. You could be right.

I don't like how we gloss over the issues the Hispanic community is having right now and in the past.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I could understand teaching this if the goal was to educate students on the stated goals of BLM as a political movement, but one suspects the goal is to promote allegiance among students to those principles.

If it is the latter, the teacher and any administrators who are responsible need to be fired immediately.

Yeah it is a huge issue in our society today and it would make sense for kids to learn about it, especially since there is a lot of confusion about it. Many don’t even know that Black Lives Matter is an organization.

But no my kids have been taught this.

I don't want it taught to my kids. They have very bias viewpoints. Mine know what it is but don't like how they spin things either.

You mean that’s what your kids tell you they believe. Kids with racist parents usually go along with it at home, but you should hear how they talk about their racist parents outside of the home.

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Anonymous wrote:My kid said they spent one period doing this today in MS.

I am wondering if this is school-specific or MCPS-wide. Just looking to get more info before I approach the principal with my questions/concerns.

MCPS is going all in on CRT (critical race theory) which is extremely racist. They probably won't call it that though. Instead look for SEL (social emotional learning) and culturally responsive curriculum. And it's being done during the 8th period connect time.

CRT is not "extremely racist." The only one who is racist is someone who would object to it by characterizing it as ""extremely racist."

Do you actually have a white robe and hood in your closet?

This is CRT in practice, right here in MPCS: https://twitter.com/marya_hay/status/1230546821346471939?s=20

"skin color is a problem that..." = racist

I think this is actually useful because white people get sooooo uptight and take it personally when people point out racism. If more white people understood these concepts, they could look at racism objectively and focus more on the problems and less on getting offended when somebody points out how lots of our institutions favor white people. (I’m white by the way)

But I know people hate hearing that their supposed colorblindness isn’t good enough so I’ll stop there.

This is the entire thing right here. When white people react this way to having white privilege pointed out, they internalize it and take it VERY personally, as if it's an attack on their character. "Oh, *I* am not racist! *I* don't see color! How DARE these people accuse me of racism." But they also have never experienced what a POC has and they literally have NO IDEA what POC live with every day. But instead of shutting up and listening, they instinctually stomp their feet and protest that they are being attacked or they don't LIKE the messages that would even dare to suggest that they're not the wonderful people they think they are. The irony is most of them ARE good people. But if they would just drop their defensive dukes and listen a little more and talk a little less, and stop trying to control the narrative about race relations, they might come to a better understanding and we might actually make meaningful progress towards racial healing as a nation.

I completely agree and am a NP, but I think the difference is that she has it listed as "whiteness" and not "white supremacy." I think if we're going to figure out the best way forward it will help to reflect critically language -- is it working or can the message or terminology be improved -- going both ways. The goal is to get white people on board with being antiracist. Communications campaigns only work when the message does.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My kid said they spent one period doing this today in MS.

I am wondering if this is school-specific or MCPS-wide. Just looking to get more info before I approach the principal with my questions/concerns.

So - the kids have been out of school for over a year and they waste teaching time on this garage? Nothing else to do? A chunk of curricula has not been taught - you know math, science and literature. Pathetic.

Lol, right! Your kid can’t write a coherent paragraph but they WILL recite the 13 principles of BLM

[Anonymous]

In case anybody is curious, the definition of “nuclear family” is a man, woman, and their children with no extended family. I am a member of a nuclear family that I love but I am all for dismantling the idea that other family structures are lesser.