FCPS CRT or nah?

[Anonymous]

It’s amazing to see the tribalism on display ITT. This lesson obviously has issues from the format to the categories. And rather than say privilege is an important topic, but we can do better, some of you try and figure out ways to support the activity going so far as to deride military families in your quest to justify some ill-conceived activity because it’s your ‘side.’

This topic should/could be part of some FLE curriculum where families are made aware and can opt out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: What are biracial kids going to do? Are we white now? Do we check the box?

That depends.

What’s the texture of your hair? Straight but it's very frizzy and curly/wavy in humidity

Skin tone? White with Hispanic features on face

Can you pass? Yes

Parents still married? No

Accepted by white grandparents? Barely knew them

Is there inheritance? A little

Is your dad the white one? Yes

Do you have his last name? When I was a kid I did, now it's my mom's maiden name and my dad's last name hyphenated

I guess I'm white


Of course, if your biracial ness is white/Asian you don’t have to answer any previous questions. Asians are “white adjacent” now so being both just makes you white and therefore privileged and you ought to be ashamed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: What are biracial kids going to do? Are we white now? Do we check the box?

That depends.

What’s the texture of your hair? Straight but it's very frizzy and curly/wavy in humidity

Skin tone? White with Hispanic features on face

Can you pass? Yes

Parents still married? No

Accepted by white grandparents? Barely knew them

Is there inheritance? A little

Is your dad the white one? Yes

Do you have his last name? When I was a kid I did, now it's my mom's maiden name and my dad's last name hyphenated

I guess I'm white


Of course, if your biracial ness is white/Asian you don’t have to answer any previous questions. Asians are “white adjacent” now so being both just makes you white and therefore privileged and you ought to be ashamed.

I was being sarcastic. I didn’t think you’d actually answer!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A State funded school is singling out and denigrating a religion, violating the First Amendment clause not to either establish a religion or prevent it's practice. So they should be sued by any Christian or anyone who saw this with any religious status or lack thereof. You know the ADL would do the same.

This is simply unacceptable.

It’s not “denigrating” to acknowledge that it’s easier to be Christianity in this country.

Oh, then FCPS is saying that its better to be Christian!

The ADL is not going to be happy with that.

[Anonymous]

Please cite the school that distributed this document and class. Please cite the curriculum on VDOE that is associated with this document. Has any of this been verified by FCPS?


Who created this document?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Please cite the school that distributed this document and class. Please cite the curriculum on VDOE that is associated with this document. Has any of this been verified by FCPS?


Who created this document?

the offical FCPS twitter said this was an approved assignment, that has now been revised.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think that resentful, anti military poster has rose colored glasses on what deployments actually do to a family.

Deployments are HARD, but often, the reunification is even harder and sometimes traumatic. Parents don't return the same person who left, and sometimes that new parent is very disruptive or destructive to the family unit.

Kids spend the deployment trying to be the second "adult" in the house, particularly if they have younger siblings. That carries a unique level of sacrifice for the country, particularly if the kid is trying to be "brave" through the deployment.

Deployment reunifications are not just uniformed parent jumping out of the float at the high school football game while everyone cheers and cries like you see on TV. They are hard, and very disruptive to the family unit.

Also, military kids and families serve the country and military too. That is drilled into families at every assignment.

Command spouses are actually sent to a week of training by the military, starting at squadron commander level, at least in the Air Force. The military flies the spouses to a single base (probably done by zoom now) prior to the change of command, and spends a week training them on all of their unpaid duties and expectations as a command spouse. I have done this twice. The classes range from everything from helping other families navigate the military support systems to aiding young airman families to providing support for families of deployed members to the best practices of supporting squadron members families who just learned that their servicemember was killed or wounded in action. Command spouses are trained on the mortuary system and the notification process. They are told that everything they do and say reflects on the military and are expected to act accordingly.

All of this training makes it clear that spouses of active duty do indeed serve too.

Additionally, children of command families have a litany of events that they are strongly volun-told to attend throughout the assignments. They are dressed up, paraded around, and expected to be on their best behavior, to provide the perception of a nice welcoming, family centered environment to help make junior service members feel more confortable when the young parents can't find or can't afford sitters and have to bring their kids along with them to various events.

These are all parts of family service in the military that those like the acronym poster might be completely unaware of.

The kids serve too. Anyone who says otherwise is grossly misinformed.

Cry me a river. Military kids don't go hungry and have free health care. They are more privileged than most.

Military kids free healthcare is basically Medicaid under a different name. And shamefully, many military families live at or below the poverty line. They go to food banks, too. Check your privilege, PP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Please cite the school that distributed this document and class. Please cite the curriculum on VDOE that is associated with this document. Has any of this been verified by FCPS?


Who created this document?

the offical FCPS twitter said this was an approved assignment, that has now been revised.

It was presented at Oakton HS

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Please cite the school that distributed this document and class. Please cite the curriculum on VDOE that is associated with this document. Has any of this been verified by FCPS?


Who created this document?

the offical FCPS twitter said this was an approved assignment, that has now been revised.

It was presented at Oakton HS

https://twitter.com/fcpsnews/with_replies

For anyone who thinks this is fake news thats the official FCPS account, scroll down to jan 19 replies to see the context of their 2 messages.

[Anonymous]

Military kids free healthcare is basically Medicaid under a different name. And shamefully, many military families live at or below the poverty line. They go to food banks, too. Check your privilege, PP.

+1
Been there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: What are biracial kids going to do? Are we white now? Do we check the box?

That depends.

What’s the texture of your hair?

Skin tone?

Can you pass?

Parents still married?

Accepted by white grandparents?

Is there inheritance?

Is your dad the white one?

Do you have his last name?


Of course, if your biracial ness is white/Asian you don’t have to answer any previous questions. Asians are “white adjacent” now so being both just makes you white and therefore privileged and you ought to be ashamed.

This is the biggest piece of the anti - CRT playbook. Telling people that CRT exists to shame people. You were so close to getting it right that it is about acknowledging privilege. Nobody is asking white people to feel shame, but to simply acknowledge that it is GENERALLY easier to live life as a white person in America, and then shares evidence of why that is.

You, on the other hand, should probably be ashamed of your simplistic dismissal of an important topic.

[Anonymous]

Someone also posted this:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/e2-80-98privilege-bingo-in-fairfax-co-class-meets-controversy-for-including-being-a-military-kid/ar-AASZby0?ocid=uxbndlbing

And, somewhere on this thread, there is a response from a FCPS official which said that it was an "approved" lesson and that its purpose was to help write a response to an "author." Didn't say who the "author" was--or whether it was an author of a reading assignment or of the Bingo card.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: What are biracial kids going to do? Are we white now? Do we check the box?

That depends.

What’s the texture of your hair?

Skin tone?

Can you pass?

Parents still married?

Accepted by white grandparents?

Is there inheritance?

Is your dad the white one?

Do you have his last name?


Of course, if your biracial ness is white/Asian you don’t have to answer any previous questions. Asians are “white adjacent” now so being both just makes you white and therefore privileged and you ought to be ashamed.

This is the biggest piece of the anti - CRT playbook. Telling people that CRT exists to shame people. You were so close to getting it right that it is about acknowledging privilege. Nobody is asking white people to feel shame, but to simply acknowledge that it is GENERALLY easier to live life as a white person in America, and then shares evidence of why that is.

You, on the other hand, should probably be ashamed of your simplistic dismissal of an important topic.

EXACTLY.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: What are biracial kids going to do? Are we white now? Do we check the box?

That depends.

What’s the texture of your hair?

Skin tone?

Can you pass?

Parents still married?

Accepted by white grandparents?

Is there inheritance?

Is your dad the white one?

Do you have his last name?


Of course, if your biracial ness is white/Asian you don’t have to answer any previous questions. Asians are “white adjacent” now so being both just makes you white and therefore privileged and you ought to be ashamed.

This is the biggest piece of the anti - CRT playbook. Telling people that CRT exists to shame people. You were so close to getting it right that it is about acknowledging privilege. Nobody is asking white people to feel shame, but to simply acknowledge that it is GENERALLY easier to live life as a white person in America, and then shares evidence of why that is.

You, on the other hand, should probably be ashamed of your simplistic dismissal of an important topic.

Nope. everyone’s lives and struggles are different. Stop trying to put everyone in a box with these stupid games. This just breeds resentment in many directions. Families know the truth regarding their own kids private trials and tribulations.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Please cite the school that distributed this document and class. Please cite the curriculum on VDOE that is associated with this document. Has any of this been verified by FCPS?


Who created this document?

10th grade English

Whistleblower from Oakton, however it is a district wide curriculum lesson.

VDOE under Northam pushed through a lot of this stuff. It is all on the website, but you have to go down the rabbit hole. Youngkin is taking the DOE in a new direction towards opportunity and equality instead of CRT and equity.

FCps verified it with a very non commital response during the afternoon.

When it hit the mainstream news, they gave a very tepid general faux apology stating that fcps supports military kids and that they are sorry if anyone was offended. Fcps did not apologize for the content of the lesson, nor did they acknowledge that there are many privilege lessons occuring throughout the district under their recent focus on CRT.