Why are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria: valuable for PD etc or is there better

[Anonymous]

I have not read this book (but it is on my list to read) but it reminds me of what someone once described to me as the chocolate chip theory of racism. If you see a cookies and all the chips are in one small part of the cookie, you will say "why are all the chips in that one clump?" you won't say "why is all that dough together without any chips?"

[Anonymous]

If you are leading a PD why don’t you ask the group what areas they would like to learn about or grow in? What are the school goals or district goals you can align your PD around? Is this an area of need for the school and staff? What is the composition of the staff? Do you have folks who are new to urban edu or longer term vets?
Instead of just picking a book- address a need.

[Anonymous]

I would also recommend White Fragility https://www.amazon.com/White-Fragility-People-About-Racism/dp/0807047414/ It's summer reading for my DCPS school for white staff.

[Anonymous]

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My daughter's principal spoke at the back to school night about the pride he took in working in such a diverse place then proceeded to name a bunch of European countries that are represented at the school.

How evil!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would also recommend White Fragility https://www.amazon.com/White-Fragility-People-About-Racism/dp/0807047414/ It's summer reading for my DCPS school for white staff.

What? White staff only? Jeebus these schools...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would also recommend White Fragility https://www.amazon.com/White-Fragility-People-About-Racism/dp/0807047414/ It's summer reading for my DCPS school for white staff.

What? White staff only? Jeebus these schools...

yeah that's ridiculous in DC there are just as many racist blacks as whites if anything there are actually more racist blacks in DC

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:people of similar backgrounds group together, race/class/religion/politics etc it's completely normal and expected

Are they though, particularly in this area? This has not been either of my kids experiences in school or among their friends outside of school at all. They are in high school and have never had a group of friends with a predominant racial profile.

In my experience when white people say that, they are exaggerating. Not on purpose. They see 2-3 non-white kids in the otherwise all-white 10-12 person friend and think “Look how diverse!” Once I went to pick up my biracial DD from a pool party. There were eight girls. Two were mixed race. The others were white girls of various hair colors. The hosting mom snapped a photo of the girls and said “It’s just like a Benneton ad.” She honestly meant it. It really looked incredibly diverse to her.

+1000

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would also recommend White Fragility https://www.amazon.com/White-Fragility-People-About-Racism/dp/0807047414/ It's summer reading for my DCPS school for white staff.

What? White staff only? Jeebus these schools...

US public education has gone crazy.

China must be funding this constant stupidity and obsession with skin color.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would also recommend White Fragility https://www.amazon.com/White-Fragility-People-About-Racism/dp/0807047414/ It's summer reading for my DCPS school for white staff.

What? White staff only? Jeebus these schools...

US public education has gone crazy.

China must be funding this constant stupidity and obsession with skin color.

It's the toxic agenda of SJW, white guilt trying to be overly woke, and blacks crying racism every other instant

instead how about I dunno focusing on how to teach better so our kids can learn.

[Anonymous]

Time to prune these threads again

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would also recommend White Fragility https://www.amazon.com/White-Fragility-People-About-Racism/dp/0807047414/ It's summer reading for my DCPS school for white staff.

What? White staff only? Jeebus these schools...

ILT at my MCPS are reading White Fragility. And that’s a very racially diverse group of staff.

[Anonymous]

Yes- it’s fine for a staff to read. But only white teachers? Come on guys. Can you imagine assigning a book to only black teachers, or ESL teachers, or transgender teachers?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes- it’s fine for a staff to read. But only white teachers? Come on guys. Can you imagine assigning a book to only black teachers, or ESL teachers, or transgender teachers?

Assuming that what the anonymous poster said was true. You can't believe everything you read on the internet. If a DCPS had required White Fragility for only white teachers, it would be on the national news.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes- it’s fine for a staff to read. But only white teachers? Come on guys. Can you imagine assigning a book to only black teachers, or ESL teachers, or transgender teachers?

I'd love to see black teachers assigned a book titled Black Fragility.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes- it’s fine for a staff to read. But only white teachers? Come on guys. Can you imagine assigning a book to only black teachers, or ESL teachers, or transgender teachers?

Assuming that what the anonymous poster said was true. You can't believe everything you read on the internet. If a DCPS had required White Fragility for only white teachers, it would be on the national news.

No, it wouldn’t.
If DCPS teachers wrote s book about the nonsense we see everyday it’d be sold in the fiction section. No one would believe it.