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Anonymous
Goal achieved. |
Anonymous
Scroll up. |
Anonymous
| Why does her K student need to be frightened? |
Anonymous
+1 |
Anonymous
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/12/why-third-wave-anti-racism-dead-end/578764/ |
Anonymous
The assembly was a well known workshop for the “Anti-racist Fight Club.” It’s been around a while. They have a website, ok? https://doyinrichards.com/arfc-kids/ |
Anonymous
And, unsurprisingly, you can't access the content on the website. Because that's what you pay the guy to provide. So the website provides no insight. |
Anonymous
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Appears the kids version of the workshop is called the “initiation” for the club.
The goals are for the initiates to be able to: -Define common terms such as racism, prejudice, white privilege, and systemic racism, - Identify reasons why it’s important to embrace the color of people and not be colorblind, - Apply a strategy to deal with racist family members or racist friends, - Apply a strategy to be anti-racist in their homes, communities, and schools right now. Children should have also received a “Fist Book” following their initiation. |
Anonymous
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Watch the Today clip.
https://www.today.com/parents/anti-racism-fight-club-founder-doyin-richards-discusses-racism-t207811 Watch his TED Talk. I’m going to ask our school about bringing him in. |
Anonymous
| It would be helpful to understand what content is being shown to kindergarteners, so that we can understand why some kindergarteners come away afraid. |
Anonymous
| Parents were invited to his workshop which was on 11/18. That invitation was in newsletters (from homerooms and the Principal's letter) as well as on the list serv and the facebook page. |
Anonymous
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I asked my second grader about it and got a "huh?" type response - he clearly paid no attention to it since anything on video that does not involve Minecraft goes in one ear and out the other for him. I am glad since I do not want my child indoctrinated into any particular ideology; I do not get why schools should be in the business of teaching values instead of reading, math and other purely academic pursuits.
Full disclosure - immigrant from another country who was a persecuted minority there and still remember the trauma from my parents explaining to me how I was not like my friends. I can only imagine how much more fun this would have been if the school addressed it. So this is a sensitive topic for me in general. |
Anonymous
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...But I wasn't interested in participating in his workshop.
I did, however, browse the Fistbook. I'm OK with my third grader learning how to "confront racist family members" I suppose, but not my Kindergartner. Its too complex a topic. They can learn about inequality and racism through books, holidays, and lessons. This should have been an opt-in, opt-out situation. Major misstep by the new principal (though to be honest, its not like any parents would have felt comfortable voicing their possible discomfort with this topic for small children in the multitude of communications that we received urging participation.) |
Anonymous
That workshop was geared to adults. I would imagine that K kids would get different content / framing / phrasing |
Anonymous
| I am all for doing anti racism work with Elementary school age kids but I am disappointed that whatever the content, it appears to not have been at the right level for K-2ers to understand it. I’m the PP with the second grader who said she didn’t understand/remember anything. And we are a house that does talk about being anti racist, identify harmful stereotypes, talk about police violence etc, so they aren’t entirely new concepts for her (I have an older child too, and I’m not sure how much they really grasped at 7). Fwiw we are POC but not Black. |