There are images of 21 people in today's DCPS Welcome Back email...

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I simply don’t understand the term “white fragility” being throw around by the same people who in the very next breath spew about how mean and oppressive white people are and how much their lives are ruined because other people didn’t play nice

Sounds like you really have no idea what the term means—and yet, here you are, posting.

The PP is probably exhausted trying to keep up with all the weaponized anti-white (or anti-male or anti-straight) phrases spat out by intolerant Marxist gender & race studies departments.

This month's entry, "white fragility" (which is being thrown around all over twitter also)

We get it. You don't believe in equity / anything that may hint at toppling your place in the hierarchy is extremely threatening and therefore VERY BAD.

Saying this on a DCPS thread is pretty rich.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I simply don’t understand the term “white fragility” being throw around by the same people who in the very next breath spew about how mean and oppressive white people are and how much their lives are ruined because other people didn’t play nice

Sounds like you really have no idea what the term means—and yet, here you are, posting.

The PP is probably exhausted trying to keep up with all the weaponized anti-white (or anti-male or anti-straight) phrases spat out by intolerant Marxist gender & race studies departments.

This month's entry, "white fragility" (which is being thrown around all over twitter also)

We get it. You don't believe in equity / anything that may hint at toppling your place in the hierarchy is extremely threatening and therefore VERY BAD.

??

Saying this on a DCPS thread is pretty rich.

[Anonymous]

What percentage of kids in DCPS are white? 10%? Seems to me THAT should be reflected in the photos. By percentage.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What percentage of kids in DCPS are white? 10%? Seems to me THAT should be reflected in the photos. By percentage.

Yes but what percentage of DCPS graduates are white?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What percentage of kids in DCPS are white? 10%? Seems to me THAT should be reflected in the photos. By percentage.

Yes but what percentage of DCPS graduates are white?

About the same because the number of white students in DCPS high schools is far lower than white students in elementary.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
You mean they should have added a token white?
What about the token asian?

Yes, they should have. However DCPS has such terrible problems to solve, this does not make the top 5000.

But yet we consistently hear about the token black people missing from this or that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What percentage of kids in DCPS are white? 10%? Seems to me THAT should be reflected in the photos. By percentage.

Yes but what percentage of DCPS graduates are white?

About the same because the number of white students in DCPS high schools is far lower than white students in elementary.

That is right DCPS made it so you don’t even have to show up to graduate as to prop up the graduation rates. What ever helps you sleep at night

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Jee. Zus. Christ.

The fact that OP and others are willing to put up even a small fight about this shows such fragility, such lack of empathy, and such intolerance for societal change or flexibility. ONE publication that represents all non-white kids and you feel the need to raise this as an "issue" that offends you and speculate as to what it means for your white, and as such, tremendously advantaged kid? I guess you're motivated by a sense of commitment to your child, which is fine because we all are and should be, but in reality this point/attitude is far more detrimental to society as a whole than it is to your kid (which is to say: it isn't, at all.).

This is not the hill to die on. Get some perspective.

I say this as a white parent with a white child who attended a DCPS where s/he was the ONLY white kid in the class for four years. We talked about it. A lot. We hoped this would give our child a more nuanced, color blind view of the way the world should work. In some ways it did. But you know that? The world doesn't yet work like that, and that's a shame. Our child knows that the kids from that school were on the whole poorer, and had more disadvantages brought on my systemic and generational poverty. Can s/he articulate that? Not entirely. But s/he knows that's the world we live in, and has some growing perspective that we shouldn't have to live in that world. So how do we change it? A very small step is by WELCOMING emails like this that flip the script that has gotten us into such a problem; if you're challenging that, you're part of the problem.

Not "seeing themself" in ONE email, or 10 (that let's get real, they don't even see) isn't going to do one bit of lasting damage to your child. Of course make sure your child feels part of their school community, but don't disproportionally link this to that.

Yuck.

They have been "flipping the switch" for the entire decade my kids have been in DCPS - it's fair to say that switch has been flipped by DCPS. I have learned to tune it out along with relentless reading lists and classroom assignments that are not age appropriate and not targeted with my kids in mind, nor the majority students in their school. I did, however, recently notice that the DCPS college acceptance page is more of the same - https://dcps.dc.gov/page/dcps-goes-college-class-2019

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Jee. Zus. Christ.

The fact that OP and others are willing to put up even a small fight about this shows such fragility, such lack of empathy, and such intolerance for societal change or flexibility. ONE publication that represents all non-white kids and you feel the need to raise this as an "issue" that offends you and speculate as to what it means for your white, and as such, tremendously advantaged kid? I guess you're motivated by a sense of commitment to your child, which is fine because we all are and should be, but in reality this point/attitude is far more detrimental to society as a whole than it is to your kid (which is to say: it isn't, at all.).

This is not the hill to die on. Get some perspective.

I say this as a white parent with a white child who attended a DCPS where s/he was the ONLY white kid in the class for four years. We talked about it. A lot. We hoped this would give our child a more nuanced, color blind view of the way the world should work. In some ways it did. But you know that? The world doesn't yet work like that, and that's a shame. Our child knows that the kids from that school were on the whole poorer, and had more disadvantages brought on my systemic and generational poverty. Can s/he articulate that? Not entirely. But s/he knows that's the world we live in, and has some growing perspective that we shouldn't have to live in that world. So how do we change it? A very small step is by WELCOMING emails like this that flip the script that has gotten us into such a problem; if you're challenging that, you're part of the problem.

Not "seeing themself" in ONE email, or 10 (that let's get real, they don't even see) isn't going to do one bit of lasting damage to your child. Of course make sure your child feels part of their school community, but don't disproportionally link this to that.

Yuck.

They have been "flipping the switch" for the entire decade my kids have been in DCPS - it's fair to say that switch has been flipped by DCPS. I have learned to tune it out along with relentless reading lists and classroom assignments that are not age appropriate and not targeted with my kids in mind, nor the majority students in their school. I did, however, recently notice that the DCPS college acceptance page is more of the same - https://dcps.dc.gov/page/dcps-goes-college-class-2019

Yup being the minority is hard, isn’t it? Suck it up. Most of this thread makes me sick.

[Anonymous]

Might be a good opportunity for OP to realize that representation always matters, not just when it affects you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:White people are so embarrassing sometimes.

-white person

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Jee. Zus. Christ.

The fact that OP and others are willing to put up even a small fight about this shows such fragility, such lack of empathy, and such intolerance for societal change or flexibility. ONE publication that represents all non-white kids and you feel the need to raise this as an "issue" that offends you and speculate as to what it means for your white, and as such, tremendously advantaged kid? I guess you're motivated by a sense of commitment to your child, which is fine because we all are and should be, but in reality this point/attitude is far more detrimental to society as a whole than it is to your kid (which is to say: it isn't, at all.).

This is not the hill to die on. Get some perspective.

I say this as a white parent with a white child who attended a DCPS where s/he was the ONLY white kid in the class for four years. We talked about it. A lot. We hoped this would give our child a more nuanced, color blind view of the way the world should work. In some ways it did. But you know that? The world doesn't yet work like that, and that's a shame. Our child knows that the kids from that school were on the whole poorer, and had more disadvantages brought on my systemic and generational poverty. Can s/he articulate that? Not entirely. But s/he knows that's the world we live in, and has some growing perspective that we shouldn't have to live in that world. So how do we change it? A very small step is by WELCOMING emails like this that flip the script that has gotten us into such a problem; if you're challenging that, you're part of the problem.

Not "seeing themself" in ONE email, or 10 (that let's get real, they don't even see) isn't going to do one bit of lasting damage to your child. Of course make sure your child feels part of their school community, but don't disproportionally link this to that.

Yuck.

They have been "flipping the switch" for the entire decade my kids have been in DCPS - it's fair to say that switch has been flipped by DCPS. I have learned to tune it out along with relentless reading lists and classroom assignments that are not age appropriate and not targeted with my kids in mind, nor the majority students in their school. I did, however, recently notice that the DCPS college acceptance page is more of the same - https://dcps.dc.gov/page/dcps-goes-college-class-2019

Yup being the minority is hard, isn’t it? Suck it up. Most of this thread makes me sick.

The point is DC is far more diverse than their marketing suggests...you must have missed the topic of this thread?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Might be a good opportunity for OP to realize that representation always matters, not just when it affects you.

Why do you assume OP doesn't feel that way?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Jee. Zus. Christ.

The fact that OP and others are willing to put up even a small fight about this shows such fragility, such lack of empathy, and such intolerance for societal change or flexibility. ONE publication that represents all non-white kids and you feel the need to raise this as an "issue" that offends you and speculate as to what it means for your white, and as such, tremendously advantaged kid? I guess you're motivated by a sense of commitment to your child, which is fine because we all are and should be, but in reality this point/attitude is far more detrimental to society as a whole than it is to your kid (which is to say: it isn't, at all.).

This is not the hill to die on. Get some perspective.

I say this as a white parent with a white child who attended a DCPS where s/he was the ONLY white kid in the class for four years. We talked about it. A lot. We hoped this would give our child a more nuanced, color blind view of the way the world should work. In some ways it did. But you know that? The world doesn't yet work like that, and that's a shame. Our child knows that the kids from that school were on the whole poorer, and had more disadvantages brought on my systemic and generational poverty. Can s/he articulate that? Not entirely. But s/he knows that's the world we live in, and has some growing perspective that we shouldn't have to live in that world. So how do we change it? A very small step is by WELCOMING emails like this that flip the script that has gotten us into such a problem; if you're challenging that, you're part of the problem.

Not "seeing themself" in ONE email, or 10 (that let's get real, they don't even see) isn't going to do one bit of lasting damage to your child. Of course make sure your child feels part of their school community, but don't disproportionally link this to that.

Yuck.

They have been "flipping the switch" for the entire decade my kids have been in DCPS - it's fair to say that switch has been flipped by DCPS. I have learned to tune it out along with relentless reading lists and classroom assignments that are not age appropriate and not targeted with my kids in mind, nor the majority students in their school. I did, however, recently notice that the DCPS college acceptance page is more of the same - https://dcps.dc.gov/page/dcps-goes-college-class-2019

OK, this thread was ridiculous, but that page is obnoxiously obvious.

[Anonymous]

They have been "flipping the switch" for the entire decade my kids have been in DCPS - it's fair to say that switch has been flipped by DCPS. I have learned to tune it out along with relentless reading lists and classroom assignments that are not age appropriate and not targeted with my kids in mind, nor the majority students in their school. I did, however, recently notice that the DCPS college acceptance page is more of the same - https://dcps.dc.gov/page/dcps-goes-college-class-2019

OK, this thread was ridiculous, but that page is obnoxiously obvious.

No - this thread is ridiculous, and that page is totally fair. Where would you have them include more white kids? Have two white kids from Wilson (when % white is 34%) - instead of one white and one black? Have a white kid from Duke Ellington (where white kids are 9%) and one from School-Without-Walls (43% white)?

I took the percentages from here -

http://profiles.dcps.dc.gov/Duke+Ellington+School+of+the+Arts
http://profiles.dcps.dc.gov/School+Without+Walls+High+School
http://profiles.dcps.dc.gov/Woodrow+Wilson+High+School