Is your MSer learning the 13 Guiding Principles of BLM?

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Anonymous wrote:That’s why we are starting to see a mass exodus from public schools right now which will change the landscape of everything from real estate prices to an even further widening of the ideological gap between leftists and everyone else.

Yeah, the real estate prices in my neighborhood are tanking! </sarcasm>

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Anonymous wrote:My kid said they spent one period doing this today in MS.

I am wondering if this is school-specific or MCPS-wide. Just looking to get more info before I approach the principal with my questions/concerns.

OK Troll go away and take your Trumpy idea with you.

If you don't like it leave public school and head right to the lower level learning of the religious private school.

No one is indoctrinating your kid.

[Anonymous]

You can rant at the internet all day but times are a changing folks. I posted earlier about teaching kinder students about the BLM principles and yes, we do teach them about "homosexuality and transgender" - because we have all sorts of diverse books in our class. Why wouldn't we feature books with diverse family structures? Or use wonderful books like this one to affirm all students?

https://www.amazon.com/Introducing-Teddy-gentle-gender-friendship/dp/1681192101

Guess what? The idea is to teach the children well so that they don't grow up to be like...you. (If "you" are one of the people posting racist/homophobic things on this website)

[Anonymous]

If you don't like public school stop complaining and leave.

There are tons of privates out there waiting for your money,

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Anonymous wrote:Prepare for your head to explode: I taught the 13 principles to my kindergarteners. Each class in our school adopted one of the principles to study in depth, from prek to 8th grade.

If you seriously taught kindergarteners about homosexuality and transgender issues then I really hope you get fired. And that's not even considering the political indoctrination which should also be a fireable offense.

I cannot believe what this country has come to that this is happening in our public schools.

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That’s why we are starting to see a mass exodus from public schools right now which will change the landscape of everything from real estate prices to an even further widening of the ideological gap between leftists and everyone else.

LOL. Active fantasy life you lead there.

These aren't "leftist" ideas. They are common sense, decent people ideas. Anyone who is threatened by them SHOULD leave the schools though -- they're dregs on society and need to be cast out.

Wow. Do you always make threats against people with whom you disagree, "decent" person?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You can rant at the internet all day but times are a changing folks. I posted earlier about teaching kinder students about the BLM principles and yes, we do teach them about "homosexuality and transgender" - because we have all sorts of diverse books in our class. Why wouldn't we feature books with diverse family structures? Or use wonderful books like this one to affirm all students?

https://www.amazon.com/Introducing-Teddy-gentle-gender-friendship/dp/1681192101

Guess what? The idea is to teach the children well so that they don't grow up to be like...you. (If "you" are one of the people posting racist/homophobic things on this website)

Thanks, but I'm responsible for my children develop thought in these areas, not you, and not the school.

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This is insane. If you object you are marked a racist. BLM is an ideology, plain and simple. MCPS’s mission should not be teaching ideology to my children. I am all for teaching children not to be racist, but not according to the tenets of BLM.

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Anonymous wrote:DP, but MCPS has zero business advocating that nuclear families should be discounted in favor of collective “villages.”

And while other BLM principles are mostly self-affirming exercises for Black people, they should not be taking up a lot of educational time in an integrated public school system.

It's actually possible to teach about something without advocating it. No one accuses MCPS of advocating communism or nazism by teaching about them.

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Anonymous wrote:My kid said they spent one period doing this today in MS.

I am wondering if this is school-specific or MCPS-wide. Just looking to get more info before I approach the principal with my questions/concerns.

MCPS is going all in on CRT (critical race theory) which is extremely racist. They probably won't call it that though. Instead look for SEL (social emotional learning) and culturally responsive curriculum. And it's being done during the 8th period connect time.

CRT is not "extremely racist." The only one who is racist is someone who would object to it by characterizing it as ""extremely racist."

Do you actually have a white robe and hood in your closet?

This is CRT in practice, right here in MPCS: https://twitter.com/marya_hay/status/1230546821346471939?s=20

"skin color is a problem that..." = racist

I think this is actually useful because white people get sooooo uptight and take it personally when people point out racism. If more white people understood these concepts, they could look at racism objectively and focus more on the problems and less on getting offended when somebody points out how lots of our institutions favor white people. (I’m white by the way)

But I know people hate hearing that their supposed colorblindness isn’t good enough so I’ll stop there.

This is the entire thing right here. When white people react this way to having white privilege pointed out, they internalize it and take it VERY personally, as if it's an attack on their character. "Oh, *I* am not racist! *I* don't see color! How DARE these people accuse me of racism." But they also have never experienced what a POC has and they literally have NO IDEA what POC live with every day. But instead of shutting up and listening, they instinctually stomp their feet and protest that they are being attacked or they don't LIKE the messages that would even dare to suggest that they're not the wonderful people they think they are. The irony is most of them ARE good people. But if they would just drop their defensive dukes and listen a little more and talk a little less, and stop trying to control the narrative about race relations, they might come to a better understanding and we might actually make meaningful progress towards racial healing as a nation.

It's almost like people don't like being lumped together and treated poorly because of the color of their skin.

If you think this is being "treated poorly" then you're an easily triggered, oversensitive snowflake in need of a safe space. Like a Klan rally. Or Idaho.

Toughen up, challenge yourself, stop taking everything so personally. Get with the times. It isn't a personal attack -- listen more, talk less.

Why don't you start right there yourself...

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:You can rant at the internet all day but times are a changing folks. I posted earlier about teaching kinder students about the BLM principles and yes, we do teach them about "homosexuality and transgender" - because we have all sorts of diverse books in our class. Why wouldn't we feature books with diverse family structures? Or use wonderful books like this one to affirm all students?

https://www.amazon.com/Introducing-Teddy-gentle-gender-friendship/dp/1681192101

Guess what? The idea is to teach the children well so that they don't grow up to be like...you. (If "you" are one of the people posting racist/homophobic things on this website)

Thanks, but I'm responsible for my children develop thought in these areas, not you, and not the school.

Well as an ordinary member of society I’m glad the school is stepping up because I don’t trust you to do it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is insane. If you object you are marked a racist. BLM is an ideology, plain and simple. MCPS’s mission should not be teaching ideology to my children. I am all for teaching children not to be racist, but not according to the tenets of BLM.

I adamantly object and I am anything but a racist. If I find out this is going on in my kids' classrooms, I will pull them out of class while these sessions are going on. It's really quite simple.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You can rant at the internet all day but times are a changing folks. I posted earlier about teaching kinder students about the BLM principles and yes, we do teach them about "homosexuality and transgender" - because we have all sorts of diverse books in our class. Why wouldn't we feature books with diverse family structures? Or use wonderful books like this one to affirm all students?

https://www.amazon.com/Introducing-Teddy-gentle-gender-friendship/dp/1681192101

Guess what? The idea is to teach the children well so that they don't grow up to be like...you. (If "you" are one of the people posting racist/homophobic things on this website)

What does what you posted above have to do with BLM? You do realize that people can want equality for all and not agree with BLM ideology?

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Anonymous wrote:My kid said they spent one period doing this today in MS.

I am wondering if this is school-specific or MCPS-wide. Just looking to get more info before I approach the principal with my questions/concerns.

MCPS is going all in on CRT (critical race theory) which is extremely racist. They probably won't call it that though. Instead look for SEL (social emotional learning) and culturally responsive curriculum. And it's being done during the 8th period connect time.

CRT is not "extremely racist." The only one who is racist is someone who would object to it by characterizing it as ""extremely racist."

Do you actually have a white robe and hood in your closet?

This is CRT in practice, right here in MPCS: https://twitter.com/marya_hay/status/1230546821346471939?s=20

"skin color is a problem that..." = racist

I think this is actually useful because white people get sooooo uptight and take it personally when people point out racism. If more white people understood these concepts, they could look at racism objectively and focus more on the problems and less on getting offended when somebody points out how lots of our institutions favor white people. (I’m white by the way)

But I know people hate hearing that their supposed colorblindness isn’t good enough so I’ll stop there.

This is the entire thing right here. When white people react this way to having white privilege pointed out, they internalize it and take it VERY personally, as if it's an attack on their character. "Oh, *I* am not racist! *I* don't see color! How DARE these people accuse me of racism." But they also have never experienced what a POC has and they literally have NO IDEA what POC live with every day. But instead of shutting up and listening, they instinctually stomp their feet and protest that they are being attacked or they don't LIKE the messages that would even dare to suggest that they're not the wonderful people they think they are. The irony is most of them ARE good people. But if they would just drop their defensive dukes and listen a little more and talk a little less, and stop trying to control the narrative about race relations, they might come to a better understanding and we might actually make meaningful progress towards racial healing as a nation.

It's almost like people don't like being lumped together and treated poorly because of the color of their skin.

If you think this is being "treated poorly" then you're an easily triggered, oversensitive snowflake in need of a safe space. Like a Klan rally. Or Idaho.

Toughen up, challenge yourself, stop taking everything so personally. Get with the times. It isn't a personal attack -- listen more, talk less.

Why don't you start right there yourself...

Because PP already knows what they’re talking about. They have the information, not the others who think that racism is all about everybody’s feelings.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:You can rant at the internet all day but times are a changing folks. I posted earlier about teaching kinder students about the BLM principles and yes, we do teach them about "homosexuality and transgender" - because we have all sorts of diverse books in our class. Why wouldn't we feature books with diverse family structures? Or use wonderful books like this one to affirm all students?

https://www.amazon.com/Introducing-Teddy-gentle-gender-friendship/dp/1681192101

Guess what? The idea is to teach the children well so that they don't grow up to be like...you. (If "you" are one of the people posting racist/homophobic things on this website)

Thanks, but I'm responsible for my children develop thought in these areas, not you, and not the school.

Well as an ordinary member of society I’m glad the school is stepping up because I don’t trust you to do it.

Well, they are my children, so I have the final say. And if you think I trust people like you to do it, you're out of your mind.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would be furious, esp. at the k level. Just like I need to approve of my child participating in other controversial classes, ie. sex ed, dissection, religion, etc. I would want to know specifically what is being covered and why. All the focus on BLM has gone overboard.I wish MCPS would go back to the basics and leave these difficult conversations for the parents to handle. As it is, I am already teaching her grammar and math, subjects that MCPS does a terrible time teaching.

If you want to micromanage curriculum, home school!