FCPS paying for Critical Race Theory curriculum. To be implemented in a year

[Anonymous]

The right wing crazies have really taken over the FCPS forum. The hysteria is palpable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Who knew that when Scott Brabrand said "the main thing is the main thing" before he was hired in 2017, he was referring to pushing CRT and "anti-racist" nonsense rather than focusing on academics?

This clown needs to be shown the door.

He will be in June of 2022.

The question is, who do you want to be on the school board picking his replacement, which needs to be done within a certain relatively short timeline per VDOE rules? If it's not this school board, then better get on signing the recall petitions so they can go to court:
https://openfcpscoalition.org/

We need to make sure kids are reading using a science-based literacy curriculum, writing well, and able to excel based on where they are (as Brabrand likes to say, met "by name and by need"). For that, we need a less politicially oriented, more moderate school board.

+100
But I had no idea the SB picks the superintendent! Good grief - we are really screwed if this current SB gets to pick a new one.
DP

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:These are the type of rage-fueled "experts" who get a platform these days at Yale: https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/the-psychopathic-problem-of-the-white

And this is exactly where FCPS is heading unless folks put a stop to it now, which means getting rid of the current School Board and Superintendent as soon as possible.

Holy $hit. Seems Yale is telling us who they really are.

[Anonymous]

Who developed the survey?

[Anonymous]

Andrew Sullivan does him is best to define CRT. In his view:

“ But notice what CRT is not. It is not an open-ended inquiry into buried history, a way openly to acknowledge the true brutality and evil that white supremacy once was, to stop whitewashing the past, and to face squarely the evils that America has contained — evils that continue to echo today. That project is a profoundly worthy one, and overdue. Countless historians, black and white, operating in the liberal tradition, have done this. They need to do more of it. We have indeed prettified and air-brushed the near-genocidal system of labor camp gulags this country once designated to people entirely because of their “race.” We have forgotten some of it because it is convenient. If this were the central thrust of CRT, I’d be among its strongest defenders.”
https://andrewsullivan.substack.com/p/removing-the-bedrock-of-liberalism-826

Read the whole thing. Very thoughtful.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Who developed the survey?

The Leadership Academy, who got about 50K to communicate with FCPS constituents about the new anti-bias, anti-racism policy. 50K for that!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Who developed the survey?

The Leadership Academy, who got about 50K to communicate with FCPS constituents about the new anti-bias, anti-racism policy. 50K for that!

Don't forget the 4 year multi million dollar critical race theory contract that did not go through a formal review or bidding process according to officials at gatehouse.

Fcps said the $$$$$ contract was awarded through an informal" process.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The right wing crazies have really taken over the FCPS forum. The hysteria is palpable.

Everyone becomes a bit more conservative when the policies implemented by the people they vote for start impacting their own kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The right wing crazies have really taken over the FCPS forum. The hysteria is palpable.

Everyone becomes a bit more conservative when the policies implemented by the people they vote for start impacting their own kids.

No. I have noticed this too. It does border on hysteria. The OPenFCPS folks seem to be using DCUM and these forums as their own propaganda forum. There is almost no thread that isn't full of people frothing over Omeish, masks, the school board, math, lazy teachers, or race.

In the meantime, I have yet to see any of these angry parents PROVE that FCPS is in a decline or not teaching their kids. They just focus on false dichotomies. FCPS students are overwhelmingly getting into good schools and moving on to good things (oh wait--I forgot! that's not the schools. That's Kumon and supplementation. Sure)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The right wing crazies have really taken over the FCPS forum. The hysteria is palpable.

Everyone becomes a bit more conservative when the policies implemented by the people they vote for start impacting their own kids.

No. I have noticed this too. It does border on hysteria. The OPenFCPS folks seem to be using DCUM and these forums as their own propaganda forum. There is almost no thread that isn't full of people frothing over Omeish, masks, the school board, math, lazy teachers, or race.

In the meantime, I have yet to see any of these angry parents PROVE that FCPS is in a decline or not teaching their kids. They just focus on false dichotomies. FCPS students are overwhelmingly getting into good schools and moving on to good things (oh wait--I forgot! that's not the schools. That's Kumon and supplementation. Sure)

Absolutely and its's scary. You go to their social media and read the stuff and it's basically being regurgitated here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Some of us white people think that it's an important lesson for our children to realize their privilege. I'm glad FCPS is doing it. Better society = better America.

Excuse me?? What the hell? So now we are going to try racism in reverse??

I am NOT going to feel guilty because of the color of my skin. Everyone on here has an incredibly short term memory so I will
remind you of the words of Martin Luther King Jr "....I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Who developed the survey?

The Leadership Academy, who got about 50K to communicate with FCPS constituents about the new anti-bias, anti-racism policy. 50K for that!

Don't forget the 4 year multi million dollar critical race theory contract that did not go through a formal review or bidding process according to officials at gatehouse.

Fcps said the $$$$$ contract was awarded through an informal" process.

Why all these secret measures? And lies?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some of us white people think that it's an important lesson for our children to realize their privilege. I'm glad FCPS is doing it. Better society = better America.

Excuse me?? What the hell? So now we are going to try racism in reverse??

I am NOT going to feel guilty because of the color of my skin. Everyone on here has an incredibly short term memory so I will
remind you of the words of Martin Luther King Jr "....I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.”

How is it "reverse racism" to acknowledge privilege? Let's look at that quote you used. MLK was saying he looked forward to a day where black people weren't judged inferior and white people superior just because of their race. You are not being judged or held back if you openly acknowledge that you have had an edge, even if you had hardships, because you are white.
Why do you find this so offensive?
Also, I would not really use MLK's words, because I sense you think he was all peaceful kumbaya and you have serious misconceptions about what he really argued for and wanted.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some of us white people think that it's an important lesson for our children to realize their privilege. I'm glad FCPS is doing it. Better society = better America.

Excuse me?? What the hell? So now we are going to try racism in reverse??

I am NOT going to feel guilty because of the color of my skin. Everyone on here has an incredibly short term memory so I will
remind you of the words of Martin Luther King Jr "....I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.”

How is it "reverse racism" to acknowledge privilege? Let's look at that quote you used. MLK was saying he looked forward to a day where black people weren't judged inferior and white people superior just because of their race. You are not being judged or held back if you openly acknowledge that you have had an edge, even if you had hardships, because you are white.
Why do you find this so offensive?
Also, I would not really use MLK's words, because I sense you think he was all peaceful kumbaya and you have serious misconceptions about what he really argued for and wanted.

DP. CRT is not supposed to be about assigning blame to individual people or acknowledging "an edge" on an individual basis. It's supposed to offer a perspective on institutional or structural racism. These are things that white people, as a group (not individually) might not have to worry about that impact BIPOC people differently. The fact that proponents of teaching CRT in school cannot articulate these concepts in a way that avoids individual judgment or creating guilt in young students underscores why this mindset is not appropriate for schools.

Teach history, even if it is ugly, and illuminate unheard voices. Teachers should not be assigning guilt or blame.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sometimes I can't tell if we're in VA or Mississippi. Maybe it's all the same.

Mississippi is better. Down there the white supremacists don’t pretend not to be.