Apparently its racist to hire tutors and form pods, we must all suffer equally?

[Anonymous]

DCUM thread titles to come:

"Excluded from pod"
"Other child disrupting pod"
"My bright child not being challenged enough in pod"
"Goldfish crackers served in the pod"
Pod family's basement has a weird smell, WWYD?"
"Pod ghosted us"

[Anonymous]

Perhaps the pods can help equity by stressing these privileged kids so much that their learning his hindered.

Problem solved, handwringing ceases.

[Anonymous]

“ Goldfish crackers served in the pod" ”

😄
I love you!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Now people are saying it's racist and privileged to hire a tutor or form pods. What's even more ridiculous is suggesting to make it illegal or force parents to include others for free to promote diversity of race and income. Lol good luck.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10220656647060383&set=a.1168976058860&type=3&theater

I’m sick and tired of people using racist in this way. It diminishes the term and it makes it seem that all black ppl or minorities can’t afford pods. That’s wrong to assume since some of us actually can afford to do the same. Some of us are also forming pods! Honestly this whole thing is just so taxing- real racism is being dragged by the KKK in the middle of the night.

Umm, no. Real racism is also being strangled with winesses for a $20 crime

[Anonymous]

This is all so exhausting. Our kids go to private. We're also hiring a tutor for support with DL because we both work FT. We're forming a pod for social reasons. Not a single family in the pod is 100% white, including ours. All three are bi-racial or POCs. Wait for it...one family thats all POC have a foster child who is white. That kid will be in the pod too and is also nrolled in the private school that will have DL, hence the need for tutoring support and child care while everyone works. Bonus, some social connection for peers. Privileged- absolutely. Elitist - hardly. Racist - you are out of your minds.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is all so exhausting. Our kids go to private. We're also hiring a tutor for support with DL because we both work FT. We're forming a pod for social reasons. Not a single family in the pod is 100% white, including ours. All three are bi-racial or POCs. Wait for it...one family thats all POC have a foster child who is white. That kid will be in the pod too and is also nrolled in the private school that will have DL, hence the need for tutoring support and child care while everyone works. Bonus, some social connection for peers. Privileged- absolutely. Elitist - hardly. Racist - you are out of your minds.

definitely elitist

[Anonymous]

Well, someone I knew from grad school is very clear about not wanting his kids in a pod with white kids:

One thing these pandemic pods are revealing is that school integration was always about resources.

As it stands, I have ZERO drive to have my kids in a pod with white kids. None. I will admit that I'm not particularly fond of White southern kids. It's rather easy to see how they become White southern adults, and White southern adults have the social and political sensibilities of sociopaths or the depressed.

It's not that I tell my kids not to play with White kids, though apparently, some White parents tell their kids not to play with Black kids. But my kids know the score. (I know some of you are saying, "But your kids are half -White!" lol They are Black, and their mom is White.)

So if schools were always about ten people and a teacher, I don't think there would have been a push for integration at all. But since public schooling was mass, industrial schooling about technical matters, which means that there were huge swings in resources, you need to make sure some schools don't starve while others feast.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Well, someone I knew from grad school is very clear about not wanting his kids in a pod with white kids:

One thing these pandemic pods are revealing is that school integration was always about resources.

As it stands, I have ZERO drive to have my kids in a pod with white kids. None. I will admit that I'm not particularly fond of White southern kids. It's rather easy to see how they become White southern adults, and White southern adults have the social and political sensibilities of sociopaths or the depressed.

It's not that I tell my kids not to play with White kids, though apparently, some White parents tell their kids not to play with Black kids. But my kids know the score. (I know some of you are saying, "But your kids are half -White!" lol They are Black, and their mom is White.)

So if schools were always about ten people and a teacher, I don't think there would have been a push for integration at all. But since public schooling was mass, industrial schooling about technical matters, which means that there were huge swings in resources, you need to make sure some schools don't starve while others feast.

Lol. Whiteness is despised unless you can tell yourself some story to make marrying white okay.

“ not from the south” is a new one.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Well, someone I knew from grad school is very clear about not wanting his kids in a pod with white kids:

One thing these pandemic pods are revealing is that school integration was always about resources.

As it stands, I have ZERO drive to have my kids in a pod with white kids. None. I will admit that I'm not particularly fond of White southern kids. It's rather easy to see how they become White southern adults, and White southern adults have the social and political sensibilities of sociopaths or the depressed.

It's not that I tell my kids not to play with White kids, though apparently, some White parents tell their kids not to play with Black kids. But my kids know the score. (I know some of you are saying, "But your kids are half -White!" lol They are Black, and their mom is White.)

So if schools were always about ten people and a teacher, I don't think there would have been a push for integration at all. But since public schooling was mass, industrial schooling about technical matters, which means that there were huge swings in resources, you need to make sure some schools don't starve while others feast.

Lol. Whiteness is despised unless you can tell yourself some story to make marrying white okay.

“ not from the south” is a new one.

Yeah, this guy has also said that “some white people need to die for black people to be liberated.” Makes me think about his wife every time he says that.

[Anonymous]

Jesus be a psychiatrist because he clearly needs one.

Let’s hope he never decides his wife needs to be sacrificed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Jesus be a psychiatrist because he clearly needs one.

Let’s hope he never decides his wife needs to be sacrificed.

Yep. His views on white people made him temporarily infamous: https://www.ajc.com/news/local-education/uga-grad-student-cleared-after-racially-charged-campus-speech-dispute/4JvfglSILVaH9jpJVJn39K/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Jesus be a psychiatrist because he clearly needs one.

Let’s hope he never decides his wife needs to be sacrificed.

Yep. His views on white people made him temporarily infamous: https://www.ajc.com/news/local-education/uga-grad-student-cleared-after-racially-charged-campus-speech-dispute/4JvfglSILVaH9jpJVJn39K/

Oh him. I knew that sounded familiar.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am AA Mom to two and have already mapped out our supplemental homeschooling. I have pulled my oldest and she has been accepted to Stanford online HS and I will be giving her either virtual or in-person field trips to support and doing a boom club with her so she gets her classics in. She is in 8th grade and I know she can increase her variety and depth of texts read.

My youngest is in Pre-K so I will be teaching her on days she does not have school in person in the morning. That way, I can insure she is reading, writing and able to solve math problems.

My children's education comes first so if I can do this, so can other's. This should not be a matter of race but priorities of parent's.

Thank you! I’m an AA mom we’ve hired a 2nd grade teacher who is taking a leave of absence to teach our pod of rising 2nd graders. Our school put a lot of effort into their Spring DL but I wasn’t happy with the education our DD received, and didn’t want to go through the same mess this year. I believe younger kids need in person learning and benefit from learning alongside their peers. We are fortunate we can afford to do this and that we have like minded friends who are willing to go on this journey with us. I will not be made to feel bad for doing what I think is best for my daughter.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Now people are saying it's racist and privileged to hire a tutor or form pods. What's even more ridiculous is suggesting to make it illegal or force parents to include others for free to promote diversity of race and income. Lol good luck.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10220656647060383&set=a.1168976058860&type=3&theater

Are you doing anything to help lower-income families with resources (financial or otherwise) to form pods? Life is not just about making sure you and your own family are good.

Think of others; no one is faulting you or calling you racist for your choices. But this country has systemically made wealth and access to education exclusive to whites--because of forced free black labor. You are a beneficiary whether you want to admit it or not.

[Anonymous]

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But at what cost? Am i supposed to pay the other family’s share of the tutor? Their transportation to the pod? The cost of technology so they can adequately participate? Spend my own time teaching them because their parents don’t have the time? All of that would be at a cost to my family. Why would I do that? I will lobby and speak out for change and organize events to help change, but I’m not going to put my family at a disadvantage to help another family, particularly during an epidemic. But it’s the same for a well-to-do family. I purposefully wild not pod with a family whose parent(s) is/are doctors or other essential workers who have to go into work everyday or who need to take public transportation. I’m simply unwilling to take that risk for my family. And I’m not alone in that...

I don’t know lady - I can’t tell you what to do. But if in this time of crisis that is disproportionaly hitting minorities you circle the wagons even more and don’t help others ... that’s a problem.

It's really not. I prioritize the kids that I chose to birth/adopt, and others get the energy and money that I can spare. If this situation means I have none to spare, so be it.

Right. I’m an AA mom of one I homeschool and have a “pod” of sorts with another AA mom, also one child. We live in different neighborhoods where we are the only AA people (neither of our husbands are AA). I have an amazing classroom space I invested a lot of time and money in designing, her basement is an occupational therapist’s dream, huge backyards with pools, tons of therapeutic stuff, etc. We’ve been sharing our spaces for about a year and we were considering adding another family to the mix before coronavirus, but we’re sticking to ourselves for now. We are very like-minded, cautious, and trust each other re: social distancing. It has absolutely been suggested to both of us, with varying levels of subtlety, that we share our resources or even do childcare which is hilarious. That is so not happening for a plethora of reasons, including that the moms asking didn’t care why we were homeschooling before all this. There was no care or concern (like in both our cases, our kids were not safe at the so-called excellent public schools), just little digs how they could never. Well, we will all carry on somehow. I applaud parents being proactive. There were inequities before for a LOT of families. I don’t think race has anything to do with the proposed pod solutions and it’s very disturbing how quickly those with an agenda pivoted to that.

Please keep doing what you are doing. Based on what you are saying don’t need any excuses to do a great job for your kids and you are never under any obligation to “share your resources”. Didn’t those other moms read the “grasshopper and the ant” fable?

Signed, a white UMC mom of white kids