FCPS paying for Critical Race Theory curriculum. To be implemented in a year

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As a foreigner whose kids are in public school, and who had no idea that race relations were still so bad in the USA, I think it can't be worse than what we have right now, which is nothing.

Perhaps I won't be happy with the particular spin on certain concepts. But again, a little discomfort is part of the solution. If we weren't uncomfortable, it wouldn't be an efficient treatment.

I'm foreign-born, too, having lived in the United States for over 25 years. During that time, I have not encountered a single instance of someone using a racial slur in public or in private. I have not witnessed a single case of discrimination, different treatment by race, etc. I have witnessed, however, in my professional capacities a constant stream of attempts to "fix" some imaginary injustice, often by searching for minority candidates for hiring or admissions decisions. This has resulted in a general understanding that certain groups are being hired mainly because of innate attributes, which is often very hurtful to them because it diminishes them as humans and creates otherwise unnecessary handicaps for them to overcome.

What has happened in the last couple of years in this country is absolutely surprising to me; then again, this is the country of slavery, segregation, prohibition, and McCarthyism, so extremism like the current CRT/woke cancel culture movement by a vocal and temporarily powerful subgroup is par for the course. As these others have, this too will pass.

Maybe it will, maybe it won’t.

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Anonymous wrote:Some of us white people think that it's an important lesson for our children to realize their privilege. I'm glad FCPS is doing it. Better society = better America.

You’re assuming all white children are privileged.

DP. In a country where institutional racism is so deeply rooted, are they not, in a sense, privileged?

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Michael Jackson: it don’t matter if you’re Black or White. Mmmmmmm, hmmmmmm....
FCPS: Sorry, it does.

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Anonymous wrote:Some of us white people think that it's an important lesson for our children to realize their privilege. I'm glad FCPS is doing it. Better society = better America.

You’re assuming all white children are privileged.

DP. In a country where institutional racism is so deeply rooted, are they not, in a sense, privileged?

Agree. Yes, all white children, including mine, are privileged. They never have to walk into a store and worry about being followed simply because of the color of their skin. That in and of itself is a privilege regardless of any other circumstance in their life.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some of us white people think that it's an important lesson for our children to realize their privilege. I'm glad FCPS is doing it. Better society = better America.

You’re assuming all white children are privileged.

DP. In a country where institutional racism is so deeply rooted, are they not, in a sense, privileged?

Agree. Yes, all white children, including mine, are privileged. They never have to walk into a store and worry about being followed simply because of the color of their skin. That in and of itself is a privilege regardless of any other circumstance in their life.

Yes!

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some of us white people think that it's an important lesson for our children to realize their privilege. I'm glad FCPS is doing it. Better society = better America.

You’re assuming all white children are privileged.

DP. In a country where institutional racism is so deeply rooted, are they not, in a sense, privileged?

Agree. Yes, all white children, including mine, are privileged. They never have to walk into a store and worry about being followed simply because of the color of their skin. That in and of itself is a privilege regardless of any other circumstance in their life.

Obviously the Appalachian coal miners daughter has a huge leg up on Sasha and Malia.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some of us white people think that it's an important lesson for our children to realize their privilege. I'm glad FCPS is doing it. Better society = better America.

You’re assuming all white children are privileged.

DP. In a country where institutional racism is so deeply rooted, are they not, in a sense, privileged?

Agree. Yes, all white children, including mine, are privileged. They never have to walk into a store and worry about being followed simply because of the color of their skin. That in and of itself is a privilege regardless of any other circumstance in their life.

Yes, and somehow when that happens that keeps not-white children from succeeding in school, getting good jobs, etc.

The CRT people assume the relationship is obvious? Or do they explain how that works?

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Anonymous wrote:2023 can’t come soon enough. Though I’m one of the lucky ones. My kids will all be done with FCPS by then.

What happens in 2023?

Seriously? FCPS SB elections.

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Anonymous wrote:PhD here agin, and guess what? Any criticisms of critical race theory are by definition a critical race theory. Because you are engaging with theories of race in a critical way. Hence, critical theory.

“Banning” critical race theory is nonsensical unless you are banning any discussion of race whatsoever. There is room within critical race theory for criticisms because it’s CRITICAL theory.

Frankly I’m fine with that. In a colorblind society that we are all striving for, race is an irrelevant topic.

We’re not striving for a colorblind society.

DP. We certainly should be. Otherwise, you might as well admit that identity politics and division are your goals.

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Anonymous wrote:I am not a even a crazy liberal. I guess you could call me a center left if that? Anyway, CRT doesn't scare me. what scares me is the obvious right wing trolling that has permeated DCUM recently and now even the school forums.

There has been a lot lately.

Okay. I was wondering if it was just me. It feels like DCUM has been taken over by crazy right-wingers. I've been gone for a while though so don't necessarily remember what it was like a year ago

DP. So now it’s come to people who don’t want divisive identity politics taught in schools are “crazy right-wingers”? That says so much more about you.

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Anonymous wrote:Fairfax is becoming bizarre. It wants to be woke but also wants to be rich and blessed with the Nation’s most elite public high school. Can’t have everything.

+1
As it will find out soon.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
As a foreigner whose kids are in public school, and who had no idea that race relations were still so bad in the USA, I think it can't be worse than what we have right now, which is nothing.

Perhaps I won't be happy with the particular spin on certain concepts. But again, a little discomfort is part of the solution. If we weren't uncomfortable, it wouldn't be an efficient treatment.

I'm foreign-born, too, having lived in the United States for over 25 years. During that time, I have not encountered a single instance of someone using a racial slur in public or in private. I have not witnessed a single case of discrimination, different treatment by race, etc. I have witnessed, however, in my professional capacities a constant stream of attempts to "fix" some imaginary injustice, often by searching for minority candidates for hiring or admissions decisions. This has resulted in a general understanding that certain groups are being hired mainly because of innate attributes, which is often very hurtful to them because it diminishes them as humans and creates otherwise unnecessary handicaps for them to overcome.

What has happened in the last couple of years in this country is absolutely surprising to me; then again, this is the country of slavery, segregation, prohibition, and McCarthyism, so extremism like the current CRT/woke cancel culture movement by a vocal and temporarily powerful subgroup is par for the course. As these others have, this too will pass.

Well said. This pendulum has swung too far and there will be a course correction/backlash.

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I pray that this attention to racial affinity doesn't awaken a white identarian power center.

For at least 40 years, virginia schools have taught about racism and jim crow and civil rights, and have celebrated civil rights heroes.

We are not doing any favors to black and brown children to teach them that their success or lack thereof is out of their hands, that they lack agency.

We are not doing any favors to all our grandchildren, teaching them that wealth that this country built, which has fought fascism and communist totalitarianism, which has raised billions out of poverty around the world, is only due to historical slavery and conquest.

We can teach the injustice of slavery, and we can teach the underhanded history of broken indian treaties.

However, most of the wealth created in this country has been due to free land and thus high wages and opportunity (often by displacing neolithic indigenous cultures, true!) and meritocracy (for an ever-increasingly inclusive group of peoples).

CRT, focusing on race, and replacing meritocracy with committee-dispensed equity, winds up either in a race war or in mass, centrally-planned starvation & incarceration.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some of us white people think that it's an important lesson for our children to realize their privilege. I'm glad FCPS is doing it. Better society = better America.

You’re assuming all white children are privileged.

DP. In a country where institutional racism is so deeply rooted, are they not, in a sense, privileged?

Agree. Yes, all white children, including mine, are privileged. They never have to walk into a store and worry about being followed simply because of the color of their skin. That in and of itself is a privilege regardless of any other circumstance in their life.

Obviously the Appalachian coal miners daughter has a huge leg up on Sasha and Malia.

Yes, they do. They can be alone in a car and speed down the road. When they get pulled over, they’re not in fear for their life that they will get beat up or worse, killed by the police. If Sasha or Malia are driving alone in a car, they’re just another black woman meeting up with a cop who may or may not be racist and poorly trained.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some of us white people think that it's an important lesson for our children to realize their privilege. I'm glad FCPS is doing it. Better society = better America.

You’re assuming all white children are privileged.

DP. In a country where institutional racism is so deeply rooted, are they not, in a sense, privileged?

Agree. Yes, all white children, including mine, are privileged. They never have to walk into a store and worry about being followed simply because of the color of their skin. That in and of itself is a privilege regardless of any other circumstance in their life.

All teenagers get followed in stores, no matter their color. What about "poor white trash" living in trailers? Are they privileged? What about rich people with dark skin? Are they not privileged? The whole thing has gotten ridiculous, but it's one iota of the curriculum. Our kids have to grow up in this society. May as well learn something. They still can choose to form their own opinions, just like kids always have.