Teacher told kids on zoom class to write about their white privilege
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Anonymous
| The problem is not that the teachers raised the issue of privilege. However, it sounds like she did it in a very developmentally inappropriate way, particularly by targeting the individual students so that it could create confusion, guilt, etc. Conversations about privilege are important but the way they are presented to a 5th grader should be very different to how you would present to an 8th grader. |
Anonymous
| As a Latina with a in a family where the white privilege varies, it sounds like poor delivery on the part of the teacher, but I don’t think its an inappropriate subject for 5th grade. I had my whiteness pointed out to me as a child and I don’t think I knew what to do with those statements at the time. Teaching about white privilege helps people understand differences in how people are treated. |
Anonymous
Yes we do |
Anonymous
| The people saying “it’s racist to categorize people at all” sound to me like naive and defensive adolescents. If you are white, the world treats you differently — even if you are a single parent, have a substance abuse problem, are poor, whatever. If you are white, how many times have you been pulled over while driving? Been followed in a store? Had someone clutch their purse when you got on an elevator with them? Had people cross the street when they see you coming? Your blindness to these things is part of the problem. |
Anonymous
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I think you need to speak with the teacher for clarity, OP.
Because of the subject matter I think you need to ask that the Department Head or some other administrator also be included in the discussion. The kind way to look at this is to consider that the teacher had good intentions but the delivery was poor, the assignment was weak and the entire lesson was not delivered in a developmentally appropriate way. I am a white mom of a mixed race family if it matters. |
Anonymous
Context is important. Meaning - it depends on where you are when these things are happening. If you have traveled more outside of the US then perhaps you would realize that. |
Anonymous
I hate to break it to you but in many cases no. If its important to you to think that, then go ahead. I can state multiple times that stuff has happened. 1) When I car shopped multiple dealers insisted their sales staff go with me as a white woman, not dressed fancy which was really uncomfortable being in a car alone with a strange man (sometimes with my child). Range Rover on the pike was really nasty and kept asking me about my finances and they didn't need to know anything more than I had the money and planned to pay cash. And, yet no one believed me. The dealers were a huge mix of races. 2) I have also been watched at stores very carefully and followed around. I've never ever stolen anything. 3) I was pulled over near my home and accused of not stopping at a stop sign when I knew I did. 4) I worked for DC government and the only white worker. Some of the staff, especially administrators were horrible to me. They very clearly treated me differently and finally a few co-workers who treated me very well told me to quit as there was nothing there for me. They never let me do my job and had me do basic office tasks, including cleaning and things like setting up a Christmas tree (and got angry with me for how I did it because I had no idea how to do it and it was before youtube. They knew I had never had a Christmas tree nor did I practice their religion and they still forced it). Same office insisted on Christian prayers and shamed me for just standing there and not saying them. Would you like me to keep going? |
Anonymous
Oh my gosh yes I’ve been pulled over for being white, had negative assumptions made about me because of my perceived privilege and race like that I wasn’t going to be coming back to work after I had a child a job that I needed very very badly, called racial epithets like cracker and worse. Does it really help anyone to play the who’s the bigger victim card? Why is it so hard to admit that if whites have some so-called privilege so do people of other races? As many posters have pointed out it’s not a golden ticket to be white. Many white people struggle have been victims of racism classism or discrimination for a disability etc. The world may treat you differently when you ate white sometimes for the worse sometimes for the better and if you’re black the same thing applies especially in Washington DC land of the Uber left and alt political correctness elite. |
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Anonymous
If the school is in Baltimore, we all know which one. |
Anonymous
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Lol. All you pearl-clutching white women need to gtfo of DC, if you hate it so much here. Just leave ♥️ No one will miss you, or your racism. Bye
- A white woman, raised in DC, who doesn’t have it easy, but who knows that BEING WHITE isn’t one of the things that has made my life difficult 💕 |
Anonymous
The emojis say it all. |
Anonymous
La t fing da. Again maybe not for you but for others of us whites our race has been an issue and we’ve been targeted. Thanks for being racist and narrow minded. And just wait until some liberal snowflake is offended by you and all of the sudden you are insensitive you are a racist. Enjoy there will be no one left to stand up for you or your child for that natter. And ps my child and the children of liberal royalty have all said they are ashamed of being white and they are afraid to say anything when a black child has done something Lind hurt there feelings etc. how is that ok? His is that equality? Clearly this is adversely affecting all children, big ok for kids to feel better or worse about themselves because of the color of ones skin. |
Anonymous
You are entirely missing the point. |
Anonymous
Haha yes!!!! |