Why do parents have such an issue with DEIB

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I used to think the same as you OP. I thought DEI pushback was simply racist republicans being racists.

Then I read a proposed curriculum that asserted that Mathematics’ focus on students getting correct answers was indicative of white supremacist culture. I then looked into DEI further and was shocked to discover what is creeping into public school curriculums and lesson plans.

This is utter BS
fear mongering from the rw crowd

trust me, we WISH it was

https://mynorthwest.com/3950467/jason-rantz-seattle-english-high-school-students-white-supremacy-reading-writing/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I used to think the same as you OP. I thought DEI pushback was simply racist republicans being racists.

Then I read a proposed curriculum that asserted that Mathematics’ focus on students getting correct answers was indicative of white supremacist culture. I then looked into DEI further and was shocked to discover what is creeping into public school curriculums and lesson plans.

This is utter BS
fear mongering from the rw crowd

guess you also missed this - to be fair it was a few years ago, which is almost a lifetime

https://www.newsweek.com/smithsonian-race-guidelines-rational-thinking-hard-work-are-white-values-1518333

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I used to think the same as you OP. I thought DEI pushback was simply racist republicans being racists.

Then I read a proposed curriculum that asserted that Mathematics’ focus on students getting correct answers was indicative of white supremacist culture. I then looked into DEI further and was shocked to discover what is creeping into public school curriculums and lesson plans.

This is utter BS
fear mongering from the rw crowd

trust me, we WISH it was

https://mynorthwest.com/3950467/jason-rantz-seattle-english-high-school-students-white-supremacy-reading-writing/

Don’t forget this gem

https://mynorthwest.com/2604518/rantz-bill-and-melinda-gates-foundation-bankrolls-math-is-racist-lunacy/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I used to think the same as you OP. I thought DEI pushback was simply racist republicans being racists.

Then I read a proposed curriculum that asserted that Mathematics’ focus on students getting correct answers was indicative of white supremacist culture. I then looked into DEI further and was shocked to discover what is creeping into public school curriculums and lesson plans.

This is utter BS
fear mongering from the rw crowd

trust me, we WISH it was

https://mynorthwest.com/3950467/jason-rantz-seattle-english-high-school-students-white-supremacy-reading-writing/

Don’t forget this gem

https://mynorthwest.com/2604518/rantz-bill-and-melinda-gates-foundation-bankrolls-math-is-racist-lunacy/

silly rabbit, don't you know that the best way to help people of color do better and earn more money is to make sure they hate math?

[Anonymous]

I'm so jealous of the people who think examples like these are made up

I wish I could get back to that place

but I know too much

[Anonymous]

Citing a conservative talk radio host's op-ed as "evidence," lollllll at you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Citing a conservative talk radio host's op-ed as "evidence," lollllll at you.

is the Smithsonian mainstream enough for you?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Citing a conservative talk radio host's op-ed as "evidence," lollllll at you.

and.... here's some more for you

just trying to help you become more culturally competent

https://www.slowboring.com/p/tema-okun

[Anonymous]

More op-eds. Yawn.

[Anonymous]

To clarify a few things: I am the PP who doesn’t like a lot of DEI programming because a lot of it is anti-labor and seems designed to prevent class-based solidarity. I also agree with the posts that observe that OP and a lot of private school DEI defenders are utter hypocrites who are uninterested in doing anything actually hard to change inequity. I suspect they would bitterly fight any private school union efforts.

What I am not at all opposed to is teaching children the accurate violent history of slavery, men’s violence against women, or teaching children about diverse authors, etc. But that has to come with willingness to teach critical thinking and be willing to accept dissent, and I see little evidence that is happening now. What badly done DEI does is suppress dissent, particularly dissent that strays out of a narrowly tailored corporatist framework.

I hate the self-congratulatory delusion that comes with private school DEI, where proponents like OP are all pretending that these schools are remotely egalitarian to begin with. Let’s be honest: no DEI proponent who sends their child to a $50k/year private school (or who moves to “good” school districts) is actually truly interested in the implementation of equity. Of course they aren’t: that would mean giving up actual privilege rather than, like OP, just blathering endlessly about privilege.

So I’m against a lot of it, because I think a lot of the formal programs are really just hypocritical grifts meant to make its proponents be able to excuse their own sharp-fingered opportunity hoarding. I would prefer honesty and debate over dishonest grift.

[Anonymous]

Same old "lIbErAlS cAn'T hAvE mOnEy oR aTtEnD pRiVaTe ScHoOlS" trope.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:To clarify a few things: I am the PP who doesn’t like a lot of DEI programming because a lot of it is anti-labor and seems designed to prevent class-based solidarity. I also agree with the posts that observe that OP and a lot of private school DEI defenders are utter hypocrites who are uninterested in doing anything actually hard to change inequity. I suspect they would bitterly fight any private school union efforts.

What I am not at all opposed to is teaching children the accurate violent history of slavery, men’s violence against women, or teaching children about diverse authors, etc. But that has to come with willingness to teach critical thinking and be willing to accept dissent, and I see little evidence that is happening now. What badly done DEI does is suppress dissent, particularly dissent that strays out of a narrowly tailored corporatist framework.

I hate the self-congratulatory delusion that comes with private school DEI, where proponents like OP are all pretending that these schools are remotely egalitarian to begin with. Let’s be honest: no DEI proponent who sends their child to a $50k/year private school (or who moves to “good” school districts) is actually truly interested in the implementation of equity. Of course they aren’t: that would mean giving up actual privilege rather than, like OP, just blathering endlessly about privilege.

So I’m against a lot of it, because I think a lot of the formal programs are really just hypocritical grifts meant to make its proponents be able to excuse their own sharp-fingered opportunity hoarding. I would prefer honesty and debate over dishonest grift.

I bet the middle 50% of the political spectrum feels about like this

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Same old "lIbErAlS cAn'T hAvE mOnEy oR aTtEnD pRiVaTe ScHoOlS" trope.

Well, their hypocrisy is of course fair game.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I used to think the same as you OP. I thought DEI pushback was simply racist republicans being racists.

Then I read a proposed curriculum that asserted that Mathematics’ focus on students getting correct answers was indicative of white supremacist culture. I then looked into DEI further and was shocked to discover what is creeping into public school curriculums and lesson plans.

This is utter BS
fear mongering from the rw crowd

trust me, we WISH it was

https://mynorthwest.com/3950467/jason-rantz-seattle-english-high-school-students-white-supremacy-reading-writing/

So no evidence of this happening in a DC area private school (the topic of this thread)?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I used to think the same as you OP. I thought DEI pushback was simply racist republicans being racists.

Then I read a proposed curriculum that asserted that Mathematics’ focus on students getting correct answers was indicative of white supremacist culture. I then looked into DEI further and was shocked to discover what is creeping into public school curriculums and lesson plans.

This is utter BS
fear mongering from the rw crowd

trust me, we WISH it was

https://mynorthwest.com/3950467/jason-rantz-seattle-english-high-school-students-white-supremacy-reading-writing/

So no evidence of this happening in a DC area private school (the topic of this thread)?

I don't like your facts so I'm changing the scope of the thread to some very small corner because I can't refute the claims!