just can't relate to Potomac anymore

[Anonymous]

This thread is just hilariously bad and obvious.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: They have 8+ people working on DEI for a 1000 student school.

What?!

Surely you're exaggerating for effect.

[Anonymous]

Ha! But I thought you were gay and your son hated black history?!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:And yet all of you were so completely on board with this just a few short years ago. Bragging about your school’s DEI initiative. Mocking schools that weren’t falling into lock step. And now, here you are complaining about it while your children learn what groupthink looks like.

wtf are you even talking about? I have been against it (and mocking it any chance I get) from the beginning. So no, you’re fantasy is completely wrong.

[Anonymous]

DEI is racism. Selecting a new target class doesn’t make it right. DEI is completely shameful and has no place in a school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And yet all of you were so completely on board with this just a few short years ago. Bragging about your school’s DEI initiative. Mocking schools that weren’t falling into lock step. And now, here you are complaining about it while your children learn what groupthink looks like.

wtf are you even talking about? I have been against it (and mocking it any chance I get) from the beginning. So no, you’re fantasy is completely wrong.

Mmmm hmmm.

Seems your school didn’t listen.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:And yet all of you were so completely on board with this just a few short years ago. Bragging about your school’s DEI initiative. Mocking schools that weren’t falling into lock step. And now, here you are complaining about it while your children learn what groupthink looks like.

No. I never cared about DEI. I'm also against affirmative action. I think schools can't fix every single societal problem and that they should focus on academics, and offer seats to students based on academic merit. Ethics classes, and in-depth social studies on racial and gender oppression are necessary, but seeing every interaction through those lens fosters constant resentment. The government should focus on lifting populations out of poverty, because that's the biggest driver of societal malaise. People forget that discrimination is highly correlated with economic vulnerability: so subsidized daycares that allow women to work, affordable and accessible healthcare for all, and social programs that are easier to access, particularly in rural areas, are critical to reducing discrimination. So is gun control, and more police funding to control gangs and their drug and human trafficking.

But it seems people will never understand this. The left doesn't want to crack down on crime, and the right doesn't want to develop healthcare and social programs. We're living in crazy world.

[Anonymous]

You’re posting this during Black History Month; just wondering what your thoughts are on students learning Black History. Do you see that as separate from DEI?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You’re posting this during Black History Month; just wondering what your thoughts are on students learning Black History. Do you see that as separate from DEI?

DP, but that seems more American history than anything else.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DEI is racism. Selecting a new target class doesn’t make it right. DEI is completely shameful and has no place in a school.

I feel like you don't understand DEI... especially the equity portion of it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You’re posting this during Black History Month; just wondering what your thoughts are on students learning Black History. Do you see that as separate from DEI?

Kids were learning black history before schools hired 8 DEI officers

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DEI is racism. Selecting a new target class doesn’t make it right. DEI is completely shameful and has no place in a school.

I feel like you don't understand DEI... especially the equity portion of it.

Neither do you if you think it is actually about equity

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You’re posting this during Black History Month; just wondering what your thoughts are on students learning Black History. Do you see that as separate from DEI?

Kids were learning black history before schools hired 8 DEI officers

+1. Seriously. Also I bet if you gave these kids a test about actual events - people, dates - in black history, they wouldn’t do any better than kids back in, say, the 90s. Most of school programming is just buzz word filled nonsense.

[Anonymous]

I think OP means: minorities don’t belong at Potomac. Any group that threatens “whiteness” is unwelcome at the school. Anything in society that threatens “whiteness”
is also unwelcome.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think OP means: minorities don’t belong at Potomac. Any group that threatens “whiteness” is unwelcome at the school. Anything in society that threatens “whiteness”
is also unwelcome.

Troll. Everybody is tired of DEI.