FCPS CRT or nah?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you don't believe it is a privilege, then reject the benefit.

Case closed.

If you think it is simply a privilege, then enlist and serve long enough to earn the benefit.

The Army is hiring right now.

The dependent children are not enlisted and do not serve in the military. Yet they receive the benefit. Reading is fundamental! Yeah, yeah, blah, blah, blah, all the moves and relocations and all those other acronyms my military neighbors use....TDY, PCS, etc.....LOL.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I saw this elsewhere but wasn’t sure it was true. Why is being a military kid privileged???

Also how do you win? The person who covers the most squares? What is the assumption here that only white lids grow up in stable 2 parent homes with college educated parents who go to work? This is example of why I don’t back any of the CRT type lessons. They are so bizarre and random but white democrats love it bc it makes them feel woke. Imagine being the non white kids during these classes?

If better more accurate history books are needed, the. get those but skip these nonsense lessons.

The military kids in Oakton are likely to be children of officers.

And college is basically taken care of for them. That's huge.

What are you talking about? This is false.

Is this new? My mom was a captain and my father was an Admiral, my and my siblings’ college wasn’t paid for by the military.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

So is this the root of the “CRT” issue for Republicans?

They don’t want schools to teach anything related “being a good person”?

Empathy
Gratitude
Honesty
Responsibility
Respecting others
Etc

I guess they don’t want their own kids to realize they are a-holes.

They are not teaching gratitude. They are creating guilt. There is a big difference.

It is also not helpful to the less privileged. Being told you are a victim is self=-fulfilling.

And recognizing privilege is not “guilt”.

It clearly is for a lot of white people on this thread, which means they are completely missing the point of the lessons. You're (the general you) choosing to feel guilty for something that is an inherent privilege is keeping you from opening up to the sort of discourse and dialogue that could actually lead to progress

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you don't believe it is a privilege, then reject the benefit.

Case closed.

If you think it is simply a privilege, then enlist and serve long enough to earn the benefit.

The Army is hiring right now.

The dependent children are not enlisted and do not serve in the military. Yet they receive the benefit. Reading is fundamental! Yeah, yeah, blah, blah, blah, all the moves and relocations and all those other acronyms my military neighbors use....TDY, PCS, etc.....LOL.

You write like ALL military children within a family receive free college! That is absolutely not true. IF the servicemember has not used his/her GI bill, they can transfer their benefits to a spouse or a child for the 4 years of schooling. But it’s not like every military kid qualifies for this benefit. And even IF your child uses benefit, there are many restrictions on which colleges accept the benefit. So a family of 4 kids may use it for 1 child, but they still have to pay for college for the other 3.

Why did FCPS single out military kids? Why not write “big law partner child?”

Obviously creator of bingo card thought military kids had some innate privilege. I highly doubt creators even was thinking about GI Bill.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

So is this the root of the “CRT” issue for Republicans?

They don’t want schools to teach anything related “being a good person”?

Empathy
Gratitude
Honesty
Responsibility
Respecting others
Etc

I guess they don’t want their own kids to realize they are a-holes.

They are not teaching gratitude. They are creating guilt. There is a big difference.

It is also not helpful to the less privileged. Being told you are a victim is self=-fulfilling.

And recognizing privilege is not “guilt”.

It clearly is for a lot of white people on this thread, which means they are completely missing the point of the lessons. You're (the general you) choosing to feel guilty for something that is an inherent privilege is keeping you from opening up to the sort of discourse and dialogue that could actually lead to progress

What would it accomplish?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

So is this the root of the “CRT” issue for Republicans?

They don’t want schools to teach anything related “being a good person”?

Empathy
Gratitude
Honesty
Responsibility
Respecting others
Etc

I guess they don’t want their own kids to realize they are a-holes.

They are not teaching gratitude. They are creating guilt. There is a big difference.

It is also not helpful to the less privileged. Being told you are a victim is self=-fulfilling.

And recognizing privilege is not “guilt”.

It clearly is for a lot of white people on this thread, which means they are completely missing the point of the lessons. You're (the general you) choosing to feel guilty for something that is an inherent privilege is keeping you from opening up to the sort of discourse and dialogue that could actually lead to progress

I think the problem is that this is directed at children not the parents.

And the parents should be the ones to explain why they can afford a 3 bedroom place for them and their two kids and how that is something they’ve worked hard for and that others aren’t as fortunate. Not some drive by lesson without all the personal context that may be missing. Maybe make it a take home assignment.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Most of that has little to do with race. What's the problem with having kids acknowledge they have benefits if they are mainstream (rae/religion etc) , not disabled, have some space and money and privacy, and so on.

Talk about fragile. " I don't want my kid to believe their lives may be even a littles easier than someone else's."

Please rell, other than growng up in a color blind, merit based society, what are the privileges of being a military kid?

Having a dad with PTSD?

seeing people missing half their face or with limbs blown off every time you go to your pediatrician or grocery shopping?

Parents who spent 4 years of a 20 year marriage in the same place due to deployments?

Going to 4 different schools in 5 years?

Thinking every delivery car stopping by your house is "that car" when your parent is deployed?

Regularly having parents miss birthdays, holidays, Christmas, and milestones due to deploylents?

FCPS and Braeband owe every single military family a public apology. It jeeds to be given with the same dogged passion that they use when hounding us for our impact aide forms

+ 1 million. I am not from a military family, but am disgusted by this. It is so insulting and disrespectful to military families that it makes me sick that some people agree with it. All of it

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

So is this the root of the “CRT” issue for Republicans?

They don’t want schools to teach anything related “being a good person”?

Empathy
Gratitude
Honesty
Responsibility
Respecting others
Etc

I guess they don’t want their own kids to realize they are a-holes.

They are not teaching gratitude. They are creating guilt. There is a big difference.

It is also not helpful to the less privileged. Being told you are a victim is self=-fulfilling.

And recognizing privilege is not “guilt”.

It clearly is for a lot of white people on this thread, which means they are completely missing the point of the lessons. You're (the general you) choosing to feel guilty for something that is an inherent privilege is keeping you from opening up to the sort of discourse and dialogue that could actually lead to progress

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So basically, to Republicans CRT is anything that acknowledges privilege exists on any level.

Yep.

That's because they don't understand CRT. It's just a boogey man.

Did you mean booger man? Like someone who picks his nose?
Or bogeyman?
Spelling. It’s a thing. Used to teach it schools.

That's right. And there are even dictionaries online for people who can't spell.

Oh wait. Here is a link for boogeyman. That's odd - almost as if it is a correct spelling.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/boogeyman

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When I was in ES, a black teacher did an exercise in which the room was separated into groups by eye color. The blue and green eyed kids in group and the brown eyed kids in the other. She gave treats to the brown eyed group and none to the blue/green eyed group. It was a lesson about prejudice. It upset me at lot, but I never forgot how unfair it felt to be in the blue eyed group.

Interesting that you felt the need to share her race.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So basically, to Republicans CRT is anything that acknowledges privilege exists on any level.

Yep.

That's because they don't understand CRT. It's just a boogey man.

Did you mean booger man? Like someone who picks his nose?
Or bogeyman?
Spelling. It’s a thing. Used to teach it schools.

That's right. And there are even dictionaries online for people who can't spell.

Oh wait. Here is a link for boogeyman. That's odd - almost as if it is a correct spelling.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/boogeyman

Person replying to you is pretty clearly a foreign troll honestly. They come on here to stir s*** and call Americans dumb.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A benefit confers a privilege. The dependent child did not "earn" that benefit. Ipso factor, I would consider that a privilege. Not all veterans were exemplary armed-force personnel. But they walk away with many benefits, including the GI Bill.

Not all veterans benefitted from the GI bill.

^^^
Specifically, black American veterans coming home from WWII.

https://americanexperience.si.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/After-the-War-Blacks-and-the-GI-Bill.pdf
When they returned home, the G.I. Bill, or the Servicemen’s Readjustment
Act of 1944, sought to provide returning service members with many benefits. Among these
benefits were low-cost mortgages, high school or vocational education, payments for tuition
and living expenses for those electing to attend college, and low-interest loans for
entrepreneurial veterans wanting to start a business. These benefits were open to all veterans,
including those honorably discharged, who had served at least 120 days of active duty (combat
duty was not required). The bill not only helped individual service members, but also stimulated
long-term economic growth. Though the law was deemed a political and economic success,
there was one segment of veterans who were denied many of the bill’s benefits – African
Americans.


This is one of the big drivers of the racial wealth gap that still exists today today.

[Anonymous]

Supporting this type of curriculum will continue to be a bad strategy among moderates and middle class folks.

Teach my kids advanced math without a mask and without questioning the parents military status.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you don't believe it is a privilege, then reject the benefit.

Case closed.

If you think it is simply a privilege, then enlist and serve long enough to earn the benefit.

The Army is hiring right now.

The dependent children are not enlisted and do not serve in the military. Yet they receive the benefit. Reading is fundamental! Yeah, yeah, blah, blah, blah, all the moves and relocations and all those other acronyms my military neighbors use....TDY, PCS, etc.....LOL.

You could have served so your kids could also experience the "privilege " of sacrifice.

If you aren't too old, you can still enlist.

Then you can extend your enlistment by several years so you can transfer your GI bill through the post 911 benefit.

Although it might be far more of a sacrifice than you would be willing to make for your kids or your country.

Check out the army recruiting office near you. I am sure they would be happy to share the process of how you can qualify for the post 911 GI bill.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I have no problem having my kids recognize the privileges they have in life. Yes, some of those are due to us having worked hard, but others are due to the color of our skin, sexual identity, religion. No control over those. I teach my kids to have empathy towards classmates/ peers who have to overcome more obstacles to “make it” in this society. I also point out that most people on this planet are way worse off than we are here. I agree with this kind of lesson. I hope it teaches my kids to be more grateful for what they have been given in life. Would Jesus say, “Too bad, so sad, you got stuck living with a poor, brown/black, single parent.”?

But that’s not how it’s structured. It’s not saying some of your classmates have challenges you don’t, be grateful for what you have. Instead it seems intent on tearing kids down. Have two parents? You’re privileged. Have your own bedroom? You’re privileged. Straight? You’re privileged. Being privileged is clearly not considered a good thing. The takeaway won’t be about gratitude. It’s will be that being privileged is bad. So by extension, being raised by two married parents is bad. Being straight is bad. Being white is bad. Being able-bodied is bad.

It’s like the old lesson that you don’t build someone up by tearing down others has been tossed out the window. The whole focus is on tearing down people perceived as “privileged”. That will not lead to good outcomes.

+1 Moreover, why do they single out Christians as a privilege? How many privileged Christians are on the FCPS School Board? And, what percentage do they represent?