Is this inappropriate-school district requiring teachers to read White Fragility?

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Anonymous wrote:yall can take this woke/liberal/SJW bs out of here

people seriously blaming away criminal behavior because of racisim

what the actual f

What do you blame it on?

2 main reasons

A lack of positive male role models to show there is a way out (combined with too much negative peer pressure and overall peer influence)
A lack of economic opportunities and/or a skills mismatch. Example by all objective measures the DC economy has been great for years. The issue is a skills/education gap

Why is there a lack of male role models?

Why is there a skill/education gap?

Hint. Underlying racist policies.

no you are a moron

Is there some racist telling people to not focus on school or value education
Is there some racist telling people to do drugs and commit crimes
Is there some racist telling people to have sex and kids out of wedlock
Is there some racist telling men that they don't have to give a f about themselves or their community or taking personal responsibility for anything

No hell no

Get the f out of here idiot

There ABSOLUTELY is communities telling their kids not to focus on school or value education. In many communities, being studious means you’re “nerdy,” “goody two-shoes,” and I could go on. Where I grew up, you’d (and did) get made fun of if you wanted to study at lunch, read a book, or *gasp* like math class. And there are definitely communities that think going away to college means you think you’re better than everyone else. After all, you’re leaving your community behind. And they do not value the investment of college. “Why go into debt when you can just get a job and not be in debt?” I suggest you read Hillbilly Elegy. I attended public schools that were 88% FARMS, majority AA/Hispanic.

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*absolutely are

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:*absolutely are

agree with you 100% it's the complete opposite of this idioic racism first poster.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:yall can take this woke/liberal/SJW bs out of here

people seriously blaming away criminal behavior because of racisim

what the actual f

What do you blame it on?

2 main reasons

A lack of positive male role models to show there is a way out (combined with too much negative peer pressure and overall peer influence)
A lack of economic opportunities and/or a skills mismatch. Example by all objective measures the DC economy has been great for years. The issue is a skills/education gap

Why is there a lack of male role models?

Why is there a skill/education gap?

Hint. Underlying racist policies.

no you are a moron

Is there some racist telling people to not focus on school or value education
Is there some racist telling people to do drugs and commit crimes
Is there some racist telling people to have sex and kids out of wedlock
Is there some racist telling men that they don't have to give a f about themselves or their community or taking personal responsibility for anything

No hell no

Get the f out of here idiot

There ABSOLUTELY is communities telling their kids not to focus on school or value education. In many communities, being studious means you’re “nerdy,” “goody two-shoes,” and I could go on. Where I grew up, you’d (and did) get made fun of if you wanted to study at lunch, read a book, or *gasp* like math class. And there are definitely communities that think going away to college means you think you’re better than everyone else. After all, you’re leaving your community behind. And they do not value the investment of college. “Why go into debt when you can just get a job and not be in debt?” I suggest you read Hillbilly Elegy. I attended public schools that were 88% FARMS, majority AA/Hispanic.

Absolutely agree. My dad, white, grew up in a community like that where there was no respect for education. He was mocked for working hard and for working double shifts so he could pay his own way through college. This is a social issue that affects all races and ethnicities.

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Anonymous wrote:Wow. So much white fragility. AKA snowflakes.

Put on your big girl panties and read the book. You won’t melt.

It’s not the reading it, it’s the discussing such a loaded topic with coworkers that’s the problem. Do you honestly not see how a white person who disagrees with the book’s premise and says so during the discussion, could be placing themselves in a very precarious situation?

If someone isn’t willing to read a book with an open mind and discuss on any level (even if they disagree), then that person isn’t intellectually curious enough to be in a teaching position.

I’d also be curious why they “disagree with the premise”.

Yup, perfect.

Oh really? What would you say about making The Bell Curve a required reading and discussion, and labeling anyone who balks at it “not open minded and intellectually curious”

Nailed it, PP.

I’d throw in the FBI violent crime statistics for good measure. Let’s really discuss race and hold nothing back.

I tried that already. They were removed. The movement in the world today is to push a narrative at the expense of all else, including the truth.

[Anonymous]

I mean, I have relatives (white) who smoke cigarettes, juul, curse, and scream IN their houses in front of their kids. So maybe that affects kids’ outcomes!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our school district is requiring that all staff members read White Fragility. Not sure how I feel about this. The title is rather off-putting.

Troll

[Anonymous]

It’s no wonder the best selling item online is the big blue Trump 2020 flag with the No More Bullshit line on the bottom.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s no wonder the best selling item online is the big blue Trump 2020 flag with the No More Bullshit line on the bottom.

Is this true?? Surely not.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It’s no wonder the best selling item online is the big blue Trump 2020 flag with the No More Bullshit line on the bottom.

Is this true?? Surely not.

No it isn't true. What is a top seller though is Mary Trumps book.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It’s no wonder the best selling item online is the big blue Trump 2020 flag with the No More Bullshit line on the bottom.

Is this true?? Surely not.

No it isn't true. What is a top seller though is Mary Trumps book.

Well that is equally as stupid.

[Anonymous]

Money, power and greed. Many people feel its up for grabs to remake America in their personal (unresearched) ideology.

But it’s still about power and influence, not at all freedom, liberty and choice. Many America will no longer have that soon, and go the socialist, big Gov’t direction. That’ll stop skilled immigration fast.

Same thing through the ages, every country and society.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s no wonder the best selling item online is the big blue Trump 2020 flag with the No More Bullshit line on the bottom.

The reason I reject this book is I dislike crazy, stupid, dangerous propaganda, not because I just prefer mine conservative-flavored instead. A pox on both their houses.

[Anonymous]

Also, poor minorities usually have fewer educated role models. How do you know you want to be an engineering PhD (what I hear my middle schoolers’ friends say) when you’ve literally never met an engineer?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:yall can take this woke/liberal/SJW bs out of here

people seriously blaming away criminal behavior because of racisim

what the actual f

What do you blame it on?

2 main reasons

A lack of positive male role models to show there is a way out (combined with too much negative peer pressure and overall peer influence)
A lack of economic opportunities and/or a skills mismatch. Example by all objective measures the DC economy has been great for years. The issue is a skills/education gap

Why is there a lack of male role models?

Why is there a skill/education gap?

Hint. Underlying racist policies.

Nope. When I was growing up in the 80s the out of wedlock birth rate in the black community was lower than it is now.

As for skills, education, and earning capability, the black community was and is disproportionately harmed by illegal immigration, which was encouraged and tolerated as working class black people pressed for safer working conditions and better pay.

Barbara Boxer warned about this years ago.

Sending factory jobs overseas didn't help either.

Racist policies pushed largely by Democrats, but as long as people get welfare it's supposed to be a net positive.

No.

Joe Biden's mass incarceration mania was also detrimental.