HOS Dressed as Pharaoh for Super Hero Promo video during the month of Passover... wtf?!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Jew here. Maybe I am an outlier, but I am not at all bothered by this. I didn’t read through the entire thread, but I do believe our society is becoming hyper sensitive and we are now just policing each other. Instead of whining about it here, send an email to the school voicing your concern and actually DO something about it. For what it’s worth, my husband is brown and feels the same way.

I also believe this is taking away from more important matters. Your ire could do much more good focused on bigger problems our society is currently facing. Honing in on the minutia is going to take away from the bigger picture.

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Anonymous wrote:As an Egyptian I’m not offended by anyone dressing as a Pharaoh.

I am a little offended by the people who think there was only one pharaoh who enslaved Jews.

this. as a POC i think the outrage/offense taken is a bit racist/Eurocentric.
Because one Pharaoh did something (very) bad, we can't celebrate the achievements of any of them, or one of the most important early cultures (as a pharaoh is a symbol of early Egyptian culture overall)? So a bad act (i know it lasted a long time) against a group of people who are now mostly considered "white" or "western" outweighs thousands of years of achievement of one of the most important/lauded civilizations in the world, that happens to have been a non-western one, and is rather important to many African-Americans?

Absolutely. Pharaohs are POC and this is stereotyping all Pharaohs, which is wrong.

#notallpharoahs

[Anonymous]

Looks like they are hiring quite a few teachers including the social studies teacher. Sounds like this was the nail on the sarcophagus.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Looks like they are hiring quite a few teachers including the social studies teacher. Sounds like this was the nail on the sarcophagus.

So that begs the question why they didn't address publicly. Such a botched response.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Looks like they are hiring quite a few teachers including the social studies teacher. Sounds like this was the nail on the sarcophagus.

So that begs the question why they didn't address publicly. Such a botched response.

Perhaps he was just looking for his mummy?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Jew here. Maybe I am an outlier, but I am not at all bothered by this. I didn’t read through the entire thread, but I do believe our society is becoming hyper sensitive and we are now just policing each other. Instead of whining about it here, send an email to the school voicing your concern and actually DO something about it. For what it’s worth, my husband is brown and feels the same way.

I also believe this is taking away from more important matters. Your ire could do much more good focused on bigger problems our society is currently facing. Honing in on the minutia is going to take away from the bigger picture.

I respectfully disagree. I have the capacity to both focus on how inappropriate this action was and volunteer my time in support of building voter registration and ensuring greater inclusion in the essential mechanics of our society. There is no reason to believe this action was taken in support of the greater knowledge of Egyptian history and there is no other takeaway from the HOS’ choice without regard to timing than pure insensitivity. Anyone dedicated to greater goods in our collective society understands this point. The HOS in question should certainly be rebuked if not sacked.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Looks like they are hiring quite a few teachers including the social studies teacher. Sounds like this was the nail on the sarcophagus.

So that begs the question why they didn't address publicly. Such a botched response.

Perhaps he was just looking for his mummy?

This all has been quite disappointing. As a parent of a child there it bothers me that teachers encourage parents to follow them on fb or ig and post pics from their classes so often. Individually we adore the teachers but we may be moving out next year. Many speak so highly of this teacher, but I think lines have been crossed awhile ago.

[Anonymous]

If that is a social media policy thing, the school was surely aware and can address it with all teachers. At my ind school, there is a clear policy about posting pics of kids. Only the school does it on their accounts or official sites, with all the waivers etc. Sounds like they need to revisit the policy with their teachers and remind them where the boundaries are.
With that being said, this was a freaking tough year--no? I imaging many teachers attempting to create community found the lines around picture sharing, email, phone calls to their home phone line, zooms really difficult to navigate and some of the "good ones" probably erred on the side of the grey area simply to connect the class and community. Give them a bit of a break. The whole backseat driving now the year is over is not a good look. If you have feedback, provide it so they can tighten ship for next year, not put heads on pikes for this year -or whatever was the preferred punishment in Alexandria, 80 BC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If that is a social media policy thing, the school was surely aware and can address it with all teachers. At my ind school, there is a clear policy about posting pics of kids. Only the school does it on their accounts or official sites, with all the waivers etc. Sounds like they need to revisit the policy with their teachers and remind them where the boundaries are.
With that being said, this was a freaking tough year--no? I imaging many teachers attempting to create community found the lines around picture sharing, email, phone calls to their home phone line, zooms really difficult to navigate and some of the "good ones" probably erred on the side of the grey area simply to connect the class and community. Give them a bit of a break. The whole backseat driving now the year is over is not a good look. If you have feedback, provide it so they can tighten ship for next year, not put heads on pikes for this year -or whatever was the preferred punishment in Alexandria, 80 BC.

You had me until you gave a pass for the pandemic. The teacher has been posting photos of kids on her personal (and public facing) social accounts for YEARS (easily verified by looking).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If that is a social media policy thing, the school was surely aware and can address it with all teachers. At my ind school, there is a clear policy about posting pics of kids. Only the school does it on their accounts or official sites, with all the waivers etc. Sounds like they need to revisit the policy with their teachers and remind them where the boundaries are.
With that being said, this was a freaking tough year--no? I imaging many teachers attempting to create community found the lines around picture sharing, email, phone calls to their home phone line, zooms really difficult to navigate and some of the "good ones" probably erred on the side of the grey area simply to connect the class and community. Give them a bit of a break. The whole backseat driving now the year is over is not a good look. If you have feedback, provide it so they can tighten ship for next year, not put heads on pikes for this year -or whatever was the preferred punishment in Alexandria, 80 BC.

You had me until you gave a pass for the pandemic. The teacher has been posting photos of kids on her personal (and public facing) social accounts for YEARS (easily verified by looking).

Then it sounds like the schools social media policy has been fuzzy for years. Time for an update going forward and reading in all staff, but cant really see the harm done. Bigger fish and all that.

[Anonymous]

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Education is the next step here, not ostracism. I do think an apology would be appropriate, as all of us should apologize when we accidentally cause pain.

I think the next step should be for everyone to dress up as pharaoh, and people will learn something about freedom and not submitting to cancel culture.

[Anonymous]

All the people complaining about this had better not be using cash, because it has on it a picture of a pyramid. Very insensitive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:All the people complaining about this had better not be using cash, because it has on it a picture of a pyramid. Very insensitive.

Pretty ignorant response that way misses the mark intellectually. Maybe a Congo parent posted this... or perhaps HOS? Would seem so.

[Anonymous]

We are considering Congressional and I would appreciate if a current parent could tell me where this “landed” inside the school. What was the school’s response? Am I reading correctly that the Social Studies teacher is leaving the school? Is that because of this or something else?

I will add to others who said that the lack of a public reply makes it very difficult for a prospective parent to see if they even cared. There is no need to shove people under the bus, but the lack of ownership and transparency from the school makes this much more of a “thing” than it needed to be.

[Anonymous]

This landed with mixed feelings inside the school. Very similar to this board. Many parents were outraged, but the school made it seem like the best way to handle this was to stem the tide of damage to reputation. We had planned on leaving after another year anyways back to public school, so this has all been quite an education in the power of the HOS and Board to shut down any transparency and only elevate positive, supported voices.