Is your MSer learning the 13 Guiding Principles of BLM?

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Anonymous wrote:My kid said they spent one period doing this today in MS.

I am wondering if this is school-specific or MCPS-wide. Just looking to get more info before I approach the principal with my questions/concerns.

MCPS is going all in on CRT (critical race theory) which is extremely racist. They probably won't call it that though. Instead look for SEL (social emotional learning) and culturally responsive curriculum. And it's being done during the 8th period connect time.

Out of curiosity, what do you think critical race theory is?

Anything by Kendi.

This: https://twitter.com/marya_hay/status/1230546821346471939?s=20

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Anonymous wrote:You can rant at the internet all day but times are a changing folks. I posted earlier about teaching kinder students about the BLM principles and yes, we do teach them about "homosexuality and transgender" - because we have all sorts of diverse books in our class. Why wouldn't we feature books with diverse family structures? Or use wonderful books like this one to affirm all students?

https://www.amazon.com/Introducing-Teddy-gentle-gender-friendship/dp/1681192101

Guess what? The idea is to teach the children well so that they don't grow up to be like...you. (If "you" are one of the people posting racist/homophobic things on this website)

What does what you posted above have to do with BLM? You do realize that people can want equality for all and not agree with BLM ideology?

Which principle offends you so much, can I ask?

Restorative Justice
Empathy
Loving Engagement
Diversity
Globalism
Queer Affirming
Trans Affirming
Collective Value
Intergenerational
Black Families
Black Villages
Unapologetically Black
Black Women

You forgot Destroying the Nuclear Family and Ushering in Marxism (both were on BLM's website until they scrubbed it for PR)

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Anonymous wrote:My kid said they spent one period doing this today in MS.

I am wondering if this is school-specific or MCPS-wide. Just looking to get more info before I approach the principal with my questions/concerns.

MCPS is going all in on CRT (critical race theory) which is extremely racist. They probably won't call it that though. Instead look for SEL (social emotional learning) and culturally responsive curriculum. And it's being done during the 8th period connect time.

CRT is not "extremely racist." The only one who is racist is someone who would object to it by characterizing it as ""extremely racist."

Do you actually have a white robe and hood in your closet?

This is CRT in practice, right here in MPCS: https://twitter.com/marya_hay/status/1230546821346471939?s=20

"skin color is a problem that..." = racist

I think this is actually useful because white people get sooooo uptight and take it personally when people point out racism. If more white people understood these concepts, they could look at racism objectively and focus more on the problems and less on getting offended when somebody points out how lots of our institutions favor white people. (I’m white by the way)

But I know people hate hearing that their supposed colorblindness isn’t good enough so I’ll stop there.

This is the entire thing right here. When white people react this way to having white privilege pointed out, they internalize it and take it VERY personally, as if it's an attack on their character. "Oh, *I* am not racist! *I* don't see color! How DARE these people accuse me of racism." But they also have never experienced what a POC has and they literally have NO IDEA what POC live with every day. But instead of shutting up and listening, they instinctually stomp their feet and protest that they are being attacked or they don't LIKE the messages that would even dare to suggest that they're not the wonderful people they think they are. The irony is most of them ARE good people. But if they would just drop their defensive dukes and listen a little more and talk a little less, and stop trying to control the narrative about race relations, they might come to a better understanding and we might actually make meaningful progress towards racial healing as a nation.

It's almost like people don't like being lumped together and treated poorly because of the color of their skin.

Or being told to sit down and shut up when it comes to how their children are educated.

I'm used to it. Woke progressives can't debate this stuff because it doesn't hold up to scrutiny. So they go with insults and attacks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This one is interesting!

11. Black Villages
We are committed to disrupting the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement by supporting each other as extended families and “villages” that collectively care for one another, and especially “our” children to the degree that mothers, parents and children are comfortable.

2/3 of black babies are born to single mothers, so it makes sense that they want society to stop operating with 2-parent households in mind. That's a crazy notion because single parenthood is a 1-way ticket to being poor. But this is why they want to decenter the nuclear family.

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Anonymous wrote:Prepare for your head to explode: I taught the 13 principles to my kindergarteners. Each class in our school adopted one of the principles to study in depth, from prek to 8th grade.

If you seriously taught kindergarteners about homosexuality and transgender issues then I really hope you get fired. And that's not even considering the political indoctrination which should also be a fireable offense.

I cannot believe what this country has come to that this is happening in our public schools.

Huh? Why shouldn't kindergarteners know and learn about gay people and trans people? Are teachers supposed to pretend gay and trans people don't exist, and obly straight and cis people matter and are important?

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Anonymous wrote:SO what exactly here is so objectionable?
https://www.dcareaeducators4socialjustice.org/black-lives-matter/13-guiding-principles

The first five principles and number eight are fine. The rest are subject to interpretation.

11. Black Villages: We are committed to disrupting the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement.....

I accept families that may have their own unique family structure but that does not mean I want to actively try to disrupt the traditional nuclear family structure. I happen to think children are best served with two parents that love them (I don't care whether it is man/woman, 2 women, 2 men). Single parenthood sometimes happen and no one should be punished for it, but it is not the ideal situation in which to raise kids. It creates hardship for parents and kids.

BLM ought to be promoting the notion of the nuclear family instead of shooting it down. They also should also be promoting the idea that Black on Black violence needs to end if they really believe that Black Lives Matter. That is one of the biggest problems in the Black community and it hasn’t been acknowledged.

They can promote it all they want but it ain't going to happen. They have thrown in the towel on trying to fix poor black culture because they know it's never going to happen. So this (and all CRT) is a hail Mary to try to get society to change so that poor black culture is seen as something other than the fast lane to failure. That's not going to happen either. This is why a lot of black intellectuals oppose CRT. John McWhorter (liberal Dem professor at Columbia) is at war with Kendi and it's great to see.

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Anonymous wrote:Prepare for your head to explode: I taught the 13 principles to my kindergarteners. Each class in our school adopted one of the principles to study in depth, from prek to 8th grade.

If you seriously taught kindergarteners about homosexuality and transgender issues then I really hope you get fired. And that's not even considering the political indoctrination which should also be a fireable offense.

I cannot believe what this country has come to that this is happening in our public schools.

Huh? Why shouldn't kindergarteners know and learn about gay people and trans people? Are teachers supposed to pretend gay and trans people don't exist, and obly straight and cis people matter and are important?

Why does it have to be taught through the lens of BLM principles?

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Anonymous wrote:This one is interesting!

11. Black Villages
We are committed to disrupting the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement by supporting each other as extended families and “villages” that collectively care for one another, and especially “our” children to the degree that mothers, parents and children are comfortable.

2/3 of black babies are born to single mothers, so it makes sense that they want society to stop operating with 2-parent households in mind. That's a crazy notion because single parenthood is a 1-way ticket to being poor. But this is why they want to decenter the nuclear family.

11M white peoples are widowed (2M for black people)
19M white people divorced (4M for black people)

So this is significantly more a white peoples problem

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Anonymous wrote:A garbage fire of a thread started, no doubt, by our resident McWhorter-quoter.

This thread was started because Wood MS deemed it appropriate to spend an hour, teaching kids an entire lesson on BLM today.

Meanwhile, at all MSs, our kids’ Math classes are skipping over material, because there is ‘not enough time’ to teach the entire year’s curriculum.

Strange school system, this is.

You want them to stop teaching Social Studies in middle school?

That isn't social studies. Would you like them to do an equal lesson on the KKK?

NP. BLM isn't a hate group classified as a terrorist organization, an hour is nothing and no one here has the first clue about what CRT is.

I'm actually disturbed we are just accepting the premise. I don't know what was actually taught where and think it's very likely the OP is simply stirring the pot.

There are several people here who are experts on CRT. We've had to do this to counter racist woke insanity.

Everything Kendi says/writes is CRT. And so is this from someone in the MCPS equity division: https://twitter.com/marya_hay/status/1230546821346471939?s=20 Sowing the seeds of hate. Disgusting.

You keep posting this Twitter link as if there's something wrong with it, but I don't understand why? Are you one of those people who want to pretend that society isn't biased towards white people against people of color, and so you think pointing that out is somehow "racist"?

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Anonymous wrote:If you don't like public school stop complaining and leave.

There are tons of privates out there waiting for your money,

Or maybe we'll stay and fight this woke insanity and you can leave. See how crappy that kind of response is?

Go for it ... fight for creationism and teaching the world is flat too.

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Anonymous wrote:A garbage fire of a thread started, no doubt, by our resident McWhorter-quoter.

This thread was started because Wood MS deemed it appropriate to spend an hour, teaching kids an entire lesson on BLM today.

Meanwhile, at all MSs, our kids’ Math classes are skipping over material, because there is ‘not enough time’ to teach the entire year’s curriculum.

Strange school system, this is.

You want them to stop teaching Social Studies in middle school?

That isn't social studies. Would you like them to do an equal lesson on the KKK?

NP. BLM isn't a hate group classified as a terrorist organization, an hour is nothing and no one here has the first clue about what CRT is.

I'm actually disturbed we are just accepting the premise. I don't know what was actually taught where and think it's very likely the OP is simply stirring the pot.

There are several people here who are experts on CRT. We've had to do this to counter racist woke insanity.

Everything Kendi says/writes is CRT. And so is this from someone in the MCPS equity division: https://twitter.com/marya_hay/status/1230546821346471939?s=20 Sowing the seeds of hate. Disgusting.

You keep posting this Twitter link as if there's something wrong with it, but I don't understand why? Are you one of those people who want to pretend that society isn't biased towards white people against people of color, and so you think pointing that out is somehow "racist"?

I’m not that poster, but you realize what they’re describing is sort of a twisted version of how the KKK sees “whiteness” right? It’s so far from a mainstream view that it’s not even funny.

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Anonymous wrote:Prepare for your head to explode: I taught the 13 principles to my kindergarteners. Each class in our school adopted one of the principles to study in depth, from prek to 8th grade.

Please stop pushing your political agenda on impressionable children. BLM is an organization that supports a guy who tried to murder a police officer. They also couldn't care less about white people killed by police officers, and that is why they are a racist organization.

BLM is not even an organization so maybe you could use an education.

Jesus Christ. You could have sold that fable 6 months ago, but not now. BLM is a registered non-profit. Their leader who was dirt poor 2 years ago just laid down $1.4M for a mansion in LA. I wonder where that $ came from.

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Anonymous wrote:In case anybody is curious, the definition of “nuclear family” is a man, woman, and their children with no extended family. I am a member of a nuclear family that I love but I am all for dismantling the idea that other family structures are lesser.

Single parent families are lesser. And I don't mean divorced people or people who are together but just not married. I'm talking about single motherhood from day 1. It's generally a life sentence of poverty.

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Does anyone know if the great Michael Brown is still on the homepage of BLM?

I wonder how many of these teachers bought into the whole "hands up, don't shoot" nonsense?

If these teachers actually knew what they were talking about I wouldn't be concerned.

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Anonymous wrote:A garbage fire of a thread started, no doubt, by our resident McWhorter-quoter.

This thread was started because Wood MS deemed it appropriate to spend an hour, teaching kids an entire lesson on BLM today.

Meanwhile, at all MSs, our kids’ Math classes are skipping over material, because there is ‘not enough time’ to teach the entire year’s curriculum.

Strange school system, this is.

You want them to stop teaching Social Studies in middle school?

That isn't social studies. Would you like them to do an equal lesson on the KKK?

NP. BLM isn't a hate group classified as a terrorist organization, an hour is nothing and no one here has the first clue about what CRT is.

I'm actually disturbed we are just accepting the premise. I don't know what was actually taught where and think it's very likely the OP is simply stirring the pot.

There are several people here who are experts on CRT. We've had to do this to counter racist woke insanity.

Everything Kendi says/writes is CRT. And so is this from someone in the MCPS equity division: https://twitter.com/marya_hay/status/1230546821346471939?s=20 Sowing the seeds of hate. Disgusting.

You keep posting this Twitter link as if there's something wrong with it, but I don't understand why? Are you one of those people who want to pretend that society isn't biased towards white people against people of color, and so you think pointing that out is somehow "racist"?

I’m not that poster, but you realize what they’re describing is sort of a twisted version of how the KKK sees “whiteness” right? It’s so far from a mainstream view that it’s not even funny.

What do you mean? Whiteness is a made-up concept that was created in order define certain people as white and therefore superior to people of color, right? And that's what they're basically saying on the flipcharts, right? Or what do you think "whiteness" is?