BLM activities in dcps

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: Schools can teach history, they shouldn't be in the business of promoting social movements, especially ones that have a history of representing police as the enemy.


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I would keep my child home. There are many wonderful ways to teach strategies for critical thinking; unfortunately many lazily and without any sense of irony default to simply teaching what they think. So gross. - a teacher

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: Schools can teach history, they shouldn't be in the business of promoting social movements, especially ones that have a history of representing police as the enemy.


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I would keep my child home. There are many wonderful ways to teach strategies for critical thinking; unfortunately many lazily and without any sense of irony default to simply teaching what they think. So gross. - a teacher

I wish you were witnessing the lessons and conversations at my kid's school. Not lazy or gross. Important and compelling.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No some schools are specifically doing a week of action related to BLM. https://www.dcareaeducators4socialjustice.org/black-lives-matter-week-action/

Many of us see BLM as a divisive, anti-law enforcement movement. Is this just more poorly-conceived, one-sided DCPS nonsense like the DCPS hagiography of Marion Barry during DC history?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No some schools are specifically doing a week of action related to BLM. https://www.dcareaeducators4socialjustice.org/black-lives-matter-week-action/

Many of us see BLM as a divisive, anti-law enforcement movement. Is this just more poorly-conceived, one-sided DCPS nonsense like the DCPS hagiography of Marion Barry during DC history?

DCPS is almost 80% black not suprising

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No some schools are specifically doing a week of action related to BLM. https://www.dcareaeducators4socialjustice.org/black-lives-matter-week-action/

Many of us see BLM as a divisive, anti-law enforcement movement. Is this just more poorly-conceived, one-sided DCPS nonsense like the DCPS hagiography of Marion Barry during DC history?

DCPS is almost 80% black not suprising

I stand corrected its 60% black still the majority. DC is also overwhelmingly democratic party so none of this should be surprising

[Anonymous]

My sons school is participating and I love it!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No some schools are specifically doing a week of action related to BLM. https://www.dcareaeducators4socialjustice.org/black-lives-matter-week-action/

Many of us see BLM as a divisive, anti-law enforcement movement. Is this just more poorly-conceived, one-sided DCPS nonsense like the DCPS hagiography of Marion Barry during DC history?

DCPS is almost 80% black not suprising

And DC is less than 50 percent black and falling fast. It does DC no good to have its piublic schools stoke a resentful, fearful, separatist tending youth population based on extremism.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No some schools are specifically doing a week of action related to BLM. https://www.dcareaeducators4socialjustice.org/black-lives-matter-week-action/

Many of us see BLM as a divisive, anti-law enforcement movement. Is this just more poorly-conceived, one-sided DCPS nonsense like the DCPS hagiography of Marion Barry during DC history?

DCPS is almost 80% black not suprising

And DC is less than 50 percent black and falling fast. It does DC no good to have its piublic schools stoke a resentful, fearful, separatist tending youth population based on extremism.

most white liberals support BLM too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No some schools are specifically doing a week of action related to BLM. https://www.dcareaeducators4socialjustice.org/black-lives-matter-week-action/

Many of us see BLM as a divisive, anti-law enforcement movement. Is this just more poorly-conceived, one-sided DCPS nonsense like the DCPS hagiography of Marion Barry during DC history?

DCPS is almost 80% black not suprising

I stand corrected its 60% black still the majority. DC is also overwhelmingly democratic party so none of this should be surprising

I’m a Democrat and think that public schools teaching BLM groupthink is pernicious bullshit.

[Anonymous]

99 percent of white people have no idea what Black Lives Matter is, it’s evolution, and why it exists.

- BLM is not one organization

- BLM is not merely the feminist website you scan through when you do a google search

White People, Think about the dissonance that exists every time you say I don’t like Black Lives Matter. It’s social engineering. Making America Bigots Again.

[Anonymous]

Are the people concerned with a BLM-developed curriculum looking at the curriculum? It doesn't discuss Palestine, and at least at our kids' elementary school, it doesn't discuss extrajudicial killings / police brutality either.

The guiding principles for Black Lives Matter at School are: black families / collective value / empathy / intergenerational / loving engagement / restorative justice / black women ("free from sexism and misogyny") / diverse / transgender affirming / unapologetic black ("to love and desire freedom and justice for ourselves is a prerequisite for wanting the same for others.")

It leads kids in a conversation about discipline in schools and the statistics around who gets what punishment for what offense (i.e. why do black kids end up suspended at higher rates for similar infractions than white kids), and that can be a way into the school-to-prison pipeline at a teacher's discretion.

The posters in school say things like, "There are lots of different kinds of people and one way that we're different is the color of our skin. It's important o make sure that all peopl are treated fairly, and that's why we--and lots of other people all over the country and the world--are part of the Black Lives Matter movement." (Here's a link: https://blacklivesmatteratschool.com/classroom-resources/)

I think that it's a thoughtful and open curriculum.

If you're concerned that the teacher will be having conversations about Palestinian liberation you should connect with them, but it's not in the curriculum.

[Anonymous]

Howard County is also having a BLM curriculum.

[Anonymous]

I haven't read all of this thread, but my kid's school has a Black Lives Matter week and I'm all for it.

Learning about the impact of racism in our lives is especially important in a city like DC where the reality of racial politics is part of the air we breathe. Not to mention America these days where that is even more so.

[Anonymous]

@Jeff instead of deleted the offensive posts, have you considered locking this thread?

[jsteele]

Anonymous wrote:@Jeff instead of deleted the offensive posts, have you considered locking this thread?

Yes, I have thought about locking this thread many times. But, page 6 and finally someone posted a link to the actual classroom material. I'd hate to lock the thread just after that. If people could just stay on topic, I would really appreciate it.