DCPS Presenter at Deal made a racist remark and crowd erupted
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Anonymous
| DCPS teachers had a PD at Deal today. One of the presenters made a racist remark about "SE DC" kids and the teachers went wild. This is the only video I could find. https://twitter.com/amob30/status/897828226072014849 |
Anonymous
| Woah, I wonder what he said. |
Anonymous
According to same person who posted the video on Twitter: "#DCPS on our district-wide PD intentionally claimed social-emotional needs as "not just for those SE kids." Think he/she meant "social-emotional support" |
Anonymous
| But the language that inflamed folks was "those SE kids." |
Anonymous
| As a Ward 8 resident I really resent that. |
Anonymous
| Well, probably not the best choice of words but it makes sense that kids living in high proverty area might need more social and emotional support to help counter act the effects of poverty. Of course, poor kids live all throughout the city, not all poor kids are need of extra support and plenty of upper SES living in SE will need support, too. |
Anonymous
Why? |
Anonymous
Because the need for extra support is to some degree independent of family income and ward of residence? I wonder if the DCPS speaker meant "SE kids" as in Special Education or Socio-Emotional and just had no idea about how DC is laid out in quadrants? It would be just like DCPS to bring in a consultant from another city who spends no time learning about the District. Not that I agree with how the statement was worded in that scenario either. |
Anonymous
If they meant Special Ed, the shorthand is 'sped' (and as a parent of a student with special needs who gets special ed services, it's offensieve too). |
Anonymous
| I don't understand what he meant. |
Anonymous
It was a professional development on social emotional needs of students. The presenter said that social emotional learning 'isn't just for those kids from Southeast.' Use of the word 'those' is distancing language, at best. And in this context suggested that the speaker believed the audience, DCPS teachers, might believe that only students from SE needed to work on their social emotional skills. |
Anonymous
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Maybe he meant that social-emotional (SE) learning is not for just for kids with SE goals on their IEPs. Meaning that everyone benefits from SE/social emotional learning. I would guess that the presenter has no idea about DCs quadrants. |
Anonymous
| No....his words were "south east kids" - teacher there |
Anonymous
| He prefaced it with "those black kids, those low-income kids..." so yeah, he mean "the poor black kids." Best part was he couldn't understand why people were upset. The central office staff made it worse by trying to say teachers weren't listening and were overreacting. It was a mess. |
Anonymous
| Awkward. |