PoC in Walt Whitman High School

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The demographics at Whitman are shifting. The problem is that right now most of the students of color are in special programs and can't regulate their behaviors, so the white kids are getting really weird impressions of what people of color are like.

Huh?

Lots of white kids at Whitman assume when they see a black kid that that kid will be a behavior problem because a large percentage of the few black kids they have in their grades are bussed in for the emotional disabilities program.

Yes. Whitman receives both the kids who are placed into the Emotional Disabilities program, and kids living in a nearby group home for adjudicated youth. This creates a toxic dynamic, where the only Black kids in the school are either kids known to have trouble controlling their emotions, court-involved youth, or the kids of the Botswandan ambassador. For white/Asian kids at Whitman, it means they are not generally encountering just normal MC/UMC American-born (ADOS) Black peers.

[Anonymous]

You are embarrassing the entire community. Are you even a Whitman parent? That special needs program is extremely small and many of the kids are actually white. There are a few children from a nearby shelter that was set up for families, and in particular single moms taking care of multiple kids.

Most of the kids at the school who are Black come from backgrounds just like the white kids -UMC with parents born in the U.S. and who are highly educated and they do the same rich people sports and have the same tutors as the rest of the kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The demographics at Whitman are shifting. The problem is that right now most of the students of color are in special programs and can't regulate their behaviors, so the white kids are getting really weird impressions of what people of color are like.

Huh?

Lots of white kids at Whitman assume when they see a black kid that that kid will be a behavior problem because a large percentage of the few black kids they have in their grades are bussed in for the emotional disabilities program.

Yes. Whitman receives both the kids who are placed into the Emotional Disabilities program, and kids living in a nearby group home for adjudicated youth. This creates a toxic dynamic, where the only Black kids in the school are either kids known to have trouble controlling their emotions, court-involved youth, or the kids of the Botswandan ambassador. For white/Asian kids at Whitman, it means they are not generally encountering just normal MC/UMC American-born (ADOS) Black peers.

My God. No wonder why the toxic environment at whiteman will never change, when they have with parents like you.