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

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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.

How does telling a bunch of UMC kids that they’re privileged change society at all? Do you think they don’t realize it?

Given the amount of bellyaching about basic civics issues, no, I don't think they do. They think they are victims, and that people who have less are in that situation because they lack merit.

So if they realize they were wrong and they are privileged, what happens? Do they beg mommy to sign their 529 over to a poor kid or give their car keys to someone oppressed, or do they shrug move on, do well and have more privileged offspring in a couple of decades

+1. Which is why the whole thing is bunk, not to mention a tremendous waste of time in this already lost school year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am not a even a crazy liberal. I guess you could call me a center left if that? Anyway, CRT doesn't scare me. what scares me is the obvious right wing trolling that has permeated DCUM recently and now even the school forums.

There has been a lot lately.

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PhD here agin, and guess what? Any criticisms of critical race theory are by definition a critical race theory. Because you are engaging with theories of race in a critical way. Hence, critical theory.

“Banning” critical race theory is nonsensical unless you are banning any discussion of race whatsoever. There is room within critical race theory for criticisms because it’s CRITICAL theory.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:2023 can’t come soon enough. Though I’m one of the lucky ones. My kids will all be done with FCPS by then.

What happens in 2023?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:PhD here agin, and guess what? Any criticisms of critical race theory are by definition a critical race theory. Because you are engaging with theories of race in a critical way. Hence, critical theory.

“Banning” critical race theory is nonsensical unless you are banning any discussion of race whatsoever. There is room within critical race theory for criticisms because it’s CRITICAL theory.

Frankly I’m fine with that. In a colorblind society that we are all striving for, race is an irrelevant topic.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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.

How does telling a bunch of UMC kids that they’re privileged change society at all? Do you think they don’t realize it?

Given the amount of bellyaching about basic civics issues, no, I don't think they do. They think they are victims, and that people who have less are in that situation because they lack merit.

So if they realize they were wrong and they are privileged, what happens? Do they beg mommy to sign their 529 over to a poor kid or give their car keys to someone oppressed, or do they shrug move on, do well and have more privileged offspring in a couple of decades

See this kind of comment is exactly why schools should be teaching this stuff. You literally can’t even conceive of how knowing this encourages people to operate differently in the world . You think the only choices are give up all your money or ignore it.

People know they are privileged and people work hard to perpetuate that privileged for future generations. Pretending kids are ignorant and teaching them to early will change things is somewhere between naive and hilarious

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:PhD here agin, and guess what? Any criticisms of critical race theory are by definition a critical race theory. Because you are engaging with theories of race in a critical way. Hence, critical theory.

“Banning” critical race theory is nonsensical unless you are banning any discussion of race whatsoever. There is room within critical race theory for criticisms because it’s CRITICAL theory.

Frankly I’m fine with that. In a colorblind society that we are all striving for, race is an irrelevant topic.

We’re not striving for a colorblind society.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I am not a even a crazy liberal. I guess you could call me a center left if that? Anyway, CRT doesn't scare me. what scares me is the obvious right wing trolling that has permeated DCUM recently and now even the school forums.

There has been a lot lately.

As opposed to the left wing batsh#t insanity that has been accepted as the status quo in education.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

How does telling a bunch of UMC kids that they’re privileged change society at all? Do you think they don’t realize it?

Given the amount of bellyaching about basic civics issues, no, I don't think they do. They think they are victims, and that people who have less are in that situation because they lack merit.

So if they realize they were wrong and they are privileged, what happens? Do they beg mommy to sign their 529 over to a poor kid or give their car keys to someone oppressed, or do they shrug move on, do well and have more privileged offspring in a couple of decades

DP. Well, the notion that privileged folks can just shrug and move on is what’s being challenged. No more faking it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

How does telling a bunch of UMC kids that they’re privileged change society at all? Do you think they don’t realize it?

Given the amount of bellyaching about basic civics issues, no, I don't think they do. They think they are victims, and that people who have less are in that situation because they lack merit.

So if they realize they were wrong and they are privileged, what happens? Do they beg mommy to sign their 529 over to a poor kid or give their car keys to someone oppressed, or do they shrug move on, do well and have more privileged offspring in a couple of decades

DP. Well, the notion that privileged folks can just shrug and move on is what’s being challenged. No more faking it.

No one is faking it. Privileged people have known it and tried to maintain and pass down their privilege for thousands of years now

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:PhD here agin, and guess what? Any criticisms of critical race theory are by definition a critical race theory. Because you are engaging with theories of race in a critical way. Hence, critical theory.

“Banning” critical race theory is nonsensical unless you are banning any discussion of race whatsoever. There is room within critical race theory for criticisms because it’s CRITICAL theory.

I thought that Critical Race Theory originated in law schools and was intended to show how racism is baked into the country’s laws.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I am not a even a crazy liberal. I guess you could call me a center left if that? Anyway, CRT doesn't scare me. what scares me is the obvious right wing trolling that has permeated DCUM recently and now even the school forums.

There has been a lot lately.

Okay. I was wondering if it was just me. It feels like DCUM has been taken over by crazy right-wingers. I've been gone for a while though so don't necessarily remember what it was like a year ago

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

How does telling a bunch of UMC kids that they’re privileged change society at all? Do you think they don’t realize it?

Given the amount of bellyaching about basic civics issues, no, I don't think they do. They think they are victims, and that people who have less are in that situation because they lack merit.

So if they realize they were wrong and they are privileged, what happens? Do they beg mommy to sign their 529 over to a poor kid or give their car keys to someone oppressed, or do they shrug move on, do well and have more privileged offspring in a couple of decades

DP. Well, the notion that privileged folks can just shrug and move on is what’s being challenged. No more faking it.

No one is faking it. Privileged people have known it and tried to maintain and pass down their privilege for thousands of years now

Well, the point is to keep on top of whatever hierarchy exists in the future. Privileged people will go through the motions of pretending to care about these issues and then use their inherited wealth and privilege and sysytemic advantages to remain on top. Thus, the elite college obsession. What society needs to do is to shake this system up—to say, no, you have to be part of real changes.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm just glad kids don't think as narrowly as adults. Listen to teens. They don't hate each other. They are more allied than ever. It's the aging parents who have all these Boogeyman fears who can't adapt. They don't understand what they're afraid of either. That is what is scary.

I guess you missed the posts describing teens nastily calling out other teens who don’t participate in BLM or virtue signal on social media. Do you have teens yourself? I do, and they have all confirmed that this asinine cancel culture is alive and well in high school.

Yes. I have a teen and he has not seen this at all in real life. There has been some social media stuff, But even my 15-year-old knows social media isn't real life. I would also wager that if my teen had a parent who used the phrase virtue signaling and cancel culture non-ironically, that the teen and the parent might be more likely to over blow these so-called incidents

[Anonymous]

Fairfax is becoming bizarre. It wants to be woke but also wants to be rich and blessed with the Nation’s most elite public high school. Can’t have everything.