DCPS Presenter at Deal made a racist remark and crowd erupted

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Well, probably not the best choice of words but it makes sense that kids living in high proverty area might need more social and emotional support to help counter act the effects of poverty. Of course, poor kids live all throughout the city, not all poor kids are need of extra support and plenty of upper SES living in SE will need support, too.

Why?

Why? Because poverty takes a toll on people's psyches and well being. Children living in poverty deal with so many difficult issues and face traumatic experiences at a far greater rate than children in higher SES situation. This all has a tremendous effect on their mental and physical well being. Generally speaking, their bodies and brains are just not as ready to learn as they are processing/surviving all of the negative experiences. Not to mention dealing with poor nutrition and less sleep.

Try working in a Title one school and you will see what I mean.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:He prefaced it with "those black kids, those low-income kids..." so yeah, he mean "the poor black kids." Best part was he couldn't understand why people were upset. The central office staff made it worse by trying to say teachers weren't listening and were overreacting. It was a mess.

Who was this presenter? Someone from the District or someone brought in from outside?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DCPS teachers had a PD at Deal today. One of the presenters made a racist remark about "SE DC" kids and the teachers went wild. This is the only video I could find. https://twitter.com/amob30/status/897828226072014849

Please explain to us, dear OP, exactly how one such as you views this remark as "racist."

Southeast is, factually, the poorest part of the city. (Did you not know that?) Lower income children, factually speaking, do have more social and emotional needs than the average child who lives in a more affluent area. This is true whether we are speaking of persons who are black, white, brown, green or yellow.

A better question is why you find this so inflammatory.

[Anonymous]

He didn't understand why people were upset and then tried to move on without addressing it. When people wouldn't settle down he said it was part of the script and he was supposed to say it to touch a nerve. Another man backed him up saying it was deliberate and everyone in here sessions across the city heard the same phAse, if that were true, the nxt logical step would have been to make it a talking point and discuss it, which didn't happen. Then when he tried to apologize he said something like - I meant this session covers every child, not just those kids. Again - chaos. People storming out, yelling and being frustrated about not being heard and told to settle down by someone who clearly had no idea what he did wrong. Finally they brought in people from central office for damage control.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DCPS teachers had a PD at Deal today. One of the presenters made a racist remark about "SE DC" kids and the teachers went wild. This is the only video I could find. https://twitter.com/amob30/status/897828226072014849

Please explain to us, dear OP, exactly how one such as you views this remark as "racist."

Southeast is, factually, the poorest part of the city. (Did you not know that?) Lower income children, factually speaking, do have more social and emotional needs than the average child who lives in a more affluent area. This is true whether we are speaking of persons who are black, white, brown, green or yellow.

A better question is why you find this so inflammatory.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DCPS teachers had a PD at Deal today. One of the presenters made a racist remark about "SE DC" kids and the teachers went wild. This is the only video I could find. https://twitter.com/amob30/status/897828226072014849

Please explain to us, dear OP, exactly how one such as you views this remark as "racist."

Southeast is, factually, the poorest part of the city. (Did you not know that?) Lower income children, factually speaking, do have more social and emotional needs than the average child who lives in a more affluent area. This is true whether we are speaking of persons who are black, white, brown, green or yellow.

A better question is why you find this so inflammatory.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DCPS teachers had a PD at Deal today. One of the presenters made a racist remark about "SE DC" kids and the teachers went wild. This is the only video I could find. https://twitter.com/amob30/status/897828226072014849

Please explain to us, dear OP, exactly how one such as you views this remark as "racist."

Southeast is, factually, the poorest part of the city. (Did you not know that?) Lower income children, factually speaking, do have more social and emotional needs than the average child who lives in a more affluent area. This is true whether we are speaking of persons who are black, white, brown, green or yellow.

A better question is why you find this so inflammatory.

As a teacher who stood up at the presentation said, "You're either angry or you're ignorant."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:He didn't understand why people were upset and then tried to move on without addressing it. When people wouldn't settle down he said it was part of the script and he was supposed to say it to touch a nerve. Another man backed him up saying it was deliberate and everyone in here sessions across the city heard the same phAse, if that were true, the nxt logical step would have been to make it a talking point and discuss it, which didn't happen. Then when he tried to apologize he said something like - I meant this session covers every child, not just those kids. Again - chaos. People storming out, yelling and being frustrated about not being heard and told to settle down by someone who clearly had no idea what he did wrong. Finally they brought in people from central office for damage control.

Sounds just like DCPS.

Oh, wait, this is teachers we're talking about....

[Anonymous]

Central office is a freaking joke, we pay taxes to give those people raises EVERY YEAR and these teachers get treated like dog shit. This is how disconnected central office is from the kids and schools themselves. I say revoke the raise for the racist and give the teachers the retro pay and cost of living raise they have deserved for many years. Especially those that teach "those kids"

[Anonymous]

Clearly this person needs sensitivity training. Weird that he works for DCPS and is so misdirected in his thinking.

[Anonymous]

He was saying that social emotional learning was NOT just for kids in SE, as he had heard other people say in the past. In other words, it is for all kids. He was refuting a comment that it was just for kids in SE.

I seriously don't understand why what he said was offensive.

[Anonymous]

Who was the person who said it? I heard it was a contractor....from some education consultancy group.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:He was saying that social emotional learning was NOT just for kids in SE, as he had heard other people say in the past. In other words, it is for all kids. He was refuting a comment that it was just for kids in SE.

I seriously don't understand why what he said was offensive.

Silly PP. Don't you know that some people love to find offense in everything, and if they can't find it, they create it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Who was the person who said it? I heard it was a contractor....from some education consultancy group.

Curious, what was his professional background? Education, psychology, or what?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He was saying that social emotional learning was NOT just for kids in SE, as he had heard other people say in the past. In other words, it is for all kids. He was refuting a comment that it was just for kids in SE.

I seriously don't understand why what he said was offensive.

Silly PP. Don't you know that some people love to find offense in everything, and if they can't find it, they create it?

The problem isn't that he's saying more kids should get social emotional learning. It's that he said it in such a way that dismissively bracketed the kids in SE by income and race in his comment. Saying that something is NOT just for those poor black kids, it's for all kids, is still offensive. You can swap out literally anything for social emotional learning and it's still offensive. To wit:

"New textbooks are for all kids, not just those poor black kids in SE"

"School uniforms are for all kids, not just those poor black kids in SE"

"Extended recess is for all kids, not just those poor black kids in SE"