Anti-Racism Assembly Today?

[Anonymous]

As a black man (and former black schoolboy in a majority white school district), I honestly don't recall a time when I wasn't having to navigate some uncomfortable racial foolishness, e.g. teacher expectations, silly comments from the white kids that I just "deal" with lest I be pegged an angry black kid, etc. Sort of a constant state of moderate discomfort.

I have little use for the CTR, anti-racist stuff, but I guess --given my experience -- it all seems like more of annoyance that you just muddle through. But then again, I've been doing that my entire life, so perhaps it's not as not heavy a lift for me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If only Janney could put the same focus on helping their student body with IEPs that they do on anti-racism.

Cut it out. Anti-racism is just important as sped but should not be compared.

Except "anti-racism" doesn't mean what you think it means. It's a wolf in sheep's clothing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Three pages in and still no idea why the OPs child was scared

I’m sure OP’s kid wasn’t actually scared. OP is probably a pearl clutching CRT lunatic.

Eh. I am not so sure about that PP. She probably doesn't own pearls and probably isn't a CRT lunatic. She is simply stating that something at school scared her child enough that she was afraid to go to sleep by herself. I wouldn't read more into that than what she wrote. I think you WANT her to be a pearl clutching CRT lunatic for some ridiculous reason of your own. Maybe you like drama? Maybe you like thinking the worst of people? Who the heck knows what goes through your small mind.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Three pages in and still no idea why the OPs child was scared

I’m sure OP’s kid wasn’t actually scared. OP is probably a pearl clutching CRT lunatic.

Eh. I am not so sure about that PP. She probably doesn't own pearls and probably isn't a CRT lunatic. She is simply stating that something at school scared her child enough that she was afraid to go to sleep by herself. I wouldn't read more into that than what she wrote. I think you WANT her to be a pearl clutching CRT lunatic for some ridiculous reason of your own. Maybe you like drama? Maybe you like thinking the worst of people? Who the heck knows what goes through your small mind.

DP; She wrote a fear mongering post with the headline “anti-racism” assembly and then refused to provide an ounce of clarification. Not sure what you’re defending

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Three pages in and still no idea why the OPs child was scared

I’m sure OP’s kid wasn’t actually scared. OP is probably a pearl clutching CRT lunatic.

Eh. I am not so sure about that PP. She probably doesn't own pearls and probably isn't a CRT lunatic. She is simply stating that something at school scared her child enough that she was afraid to go to sleep by herself. I wouldn't read more into that than what she wrote. I think you WANT her to be a pearl clutching CRT lunatic for some ridiculous reason of your own. Maybe you like drama? Maybe you like thinking the worst of people? Who the heck knows what goes through your small mind.

DP; She wrote a fear mongering post with the headline “anti-racism” assembly and then refused to provide an ounce of clarification. Not sure what you’re defending

17:08 said her child saw something about a child being taken away from her mom. For a sensitive five year old, that could be a frightening thing. If I were op, I’d want to know more about the content of the presentation.

[Anonymous]

My kindergartener had a fire drill today and cried for 15 minutes at bedtime about being afraid of fires, then it spiraled into tornadoes, floods, wars, etc. Doesn’t mean they shouldn’t have fire drills.

(This genuinely happened and I immediately thought of this thread when she started getting upset in describing it.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was literally laughing out loud reading the "Fistbook" they distributed. Super curious as to how many parents actually attended the Anti-Racism Fight Club from the dude riding the DEI wave all the way to the bank.

At Janney, half my kids teachers are Black. Their principal is Black. Their friends are Black. These are their role models, friends and peers. As far as I'm concerned, all this serves to do is other-ize the POC they love and look up to, assign guilt where none should exist on a child, and divide another American generation along lines of color.

Teach the history, teach the present, teach the truth. But this was seriously one of those times where I wish I lived in VA or something where an adult could feel safe even posing the question of, "do we really think this is the best use of students time and school funding? Is this appropriate?" But at Janney, you keep your mouth shut and your virtues signaled.

Agree! Adults and older kids need to talk about these things. But for little kids, the best approach is just spending their days in a diverse environment. The racism/anti-racism talk just creates an issue that didn’t exist for them before.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Three pages in and still no idea why the OPs child was scared

I’m sure OP’s kid wasn’t actually scared. OP is probably a pearl clutching CRT lunatic.

Eh. I am not so sure about that PP. She probably doesn't own pearls and probably isn't a CRT lunatic. She is simply stating that something at school scared her child enough that she was afraid to go to sleep by herself. I wouldn't read more into that than what she wrote. I think you WANT her to be a pearl clutching CRT lunatic for some ridiculous reason of your own. Maybe you like drama? Maybe you like thinking the worst of people? Who the heck knows what goes through your small mind.

DP; She wrote a fear mongering post with the headline “anti-racism” assembly and then refused to provide an ounce of clarification. Not sure what you’re defending

The assembly was literally called “Anti-Racism Fight Club“ in the school email (which I received after bedtime). I don’t have any clarification to provide because I was literally asking for clarification. Luckily I have gotten some from the teacher/other parents.

[Anonymous]

My (white) K daughter was actually upset by it as well. She didn't want to say why, just said there was a person taking in the video and people were fighting. I couldn't get anything else out of her. She did not say anything about race so I've no idea what she got out of it...

I sympathize with the OP: I don't know what was said in the presentation so I don't know how to address it with my five year old. That's the difference between this and a fire drill.

But I also take a PP's point that he's had to deal with discomfort (putting it mildly) daily as a black man so... Meh...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kindergartener had a fire drill today and cried for 15 minutes at bedtime about being afraid of fires, then it spiraled into tornadoes, floods, wars, etc. Doesn’t mean they shouldn’t have fire drills.

(This genuinely happened and I immediately thought of this thread when she started getting upset in describing it.)

No one said the assembly shouldn't happen or the anti-racist stuff shouldn't be taught. Not sure where you picked up that someone said otherwise. People love to jump to conclusions. It's like you are looking to be offended.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Three pages in and still no idea why the OPs child was scared

I’m sure OP’s kid wasn’t actually scared. OP is probably a pearl clutching CRT lunatic.

Eh. I am not so sure about that PP. She probably doesn't own pearls and probably isn't a CRT lunatic. She is simply stating that something at school scared her child enough that she was afraid to go to sleep by herself. I wouldn't read more into that than what she wrote. I think you WANT her to be a pearl clutching CRT lunatic for some ridiculous reason of your own. Maybe you like drama? Maybe you like thinking the worst of people? Who the heck knows what goes through your small mind.

DP; She wrote a fear mongering post with the headline “anti-racism” assembly and then refused to provide an ounce of clarification. Not sure what you’re defending

The assembly was literally called “Anti-Racism Fight Club“ in the school email (which I received after bedtime). I don’t have any clarification to provide because I was literally asking for clarification. Luckily I have gotten some from the teacher/other parents.

Well now let’s just Google that…

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If only Janney could put the same focus on helping their student body with IEPs that they do on anti-racism.

Cut it out. Anti-racism is just important as sped but should not be compared.

Except "anti-racism" doesn't mean what you think it means. It's a wolf in sheep's clothing.

The fact that you didn’t elaborate makes me assume you have no idea what your talking about or you’re one of those crazy white extremists.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was literally laughing out loud reading the "Fistbook" they distributed. Super curious as to how many parents actually attended the Anti-Racism Fight Club from the dude riding the DEI wave all the way to the bank.

At Janney, half my kids teachers are Black. Their principal is Black. Their friends are Black. These are their role models, friends and peers. As far as I'm concerned, all this serves to do is other-ize the POC they love and look up to, assign guilt where none should exist on a child, and divide another American generation along lines of color.

Teach the history, teach the present, teach the truth. But this was seriously one of those times where I wish I lived in VA or something where an adult could feel safe even posing the question of, "do we really think this is the best use of students time and school funding? Is this appropriate?" But at Janney, you keep your mouth shut and your virtues signaled.

Agree! Adults and older kids need to talk about these things. But for little kids, the best approach is just spending their days in a diverse environment. The racism/anti-racism talk just creates an issue that didn’t exist for them before.

But it already exists. The doll experiment was done on very young children. Children make racist connections at a very young age.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kindergartener had a fire drill today and cried for 15 minutes at bedtime about being afraid of fires, then it spiraled into tornadoes, floods, wars, etc. Doesn’t mean they shouldn’t have fire drills.

(This genuinely happened and I immediately thought of this thread when she started getting upset in describing it.)

Great one!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:no - what school?

Janney.

Yeah...I wish I kept my kid home. I’m livid about whatever instruction they did because my K kid’s takeaway is that “white people are bad people”