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

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Anonymous wrote:"I am trying to convert you..."
Isn't that a good thing if you are converting a racist to a race-accepting person?

If you want to convert someone, the stupidest move you could make is announce that you are going to do it, no?

You misread my use of “I am going to convert you.” I made up my own adjective to qualify “rhetoric.” I think I wrote something like “I don’t want to use ‘I am going to convert you’ rhetoric.”

In my mind, a good teacher lets the student make value judgments for himself or herself. That said, I can still lead the horse to the trough I think it should drink from… but I have to be careful. They recognize leading questions and then they’ll either stay silent or say what I they think they are supposed to say (which in my mind is almost the same thing as silence).

The problem with CRT (unless I am mistaken about what it entails) is that telling people what’s correct and not correct is a very superficial solution and might actually widen the racial divide. Do you want people to honestly address their thought process, become aware of unintentional prejudices, and empathize with all of their fellow humans? Then you have to let people speak and ask questions and answer them without shouting “You’re racist!” and immediately ending the conversation. I know that is asking a lot, but otherwise we are just training people on how to SOUND not racist… and they will continue to carry out, consciously or subconsciously, whatever forms of discrimination they regularly exercise.

I think I am pretty good about being non-judgmental. I don’t see the world in black and white and I am very accepting of all kinds of gray. That’s probably why I don’t like this “You are a racist or not a racist” way of thinking.

Also, I feel like my primary job is to give students the skills and tools they need to communicate effectively, which is why I resist the ideology du jour or casting myself into some noble “social reformer” role. If they don’t know how to speak or write using accepted conventions, it will be very difficult for them to progress to higher education or to obtain gainful employment.

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Anonymous wrote:All I can say is vote. I've never voted anything but D in my life and I"m so over all this nonsense. I never thought that I would vote R in my life but I am strongly considering it moving forward. Sadly, we have no good options.

Haha, right. You saw the last four years and THEN decided to go R but never were before.

DP, but you do realize that people can decide to vote differently in local and national elections. Or perhaps you don’t, but that’s really your problem, not PP’s. You are sticking your head in the sand if you have no appreciation for the extent to which this Democratic-controlled School Board has antagonized parents.

Exactly. I think more Ds may change votes precisely because the Trump years are over. The only thing that united Ds and mitigated any infighting was the fact that we all hated Trump so much. Now that he's gone, the gloves are coming off within the left and it is blindingly apparently that there's a massive schism between the far left and the moderates. We may have seen this before, but we had the anti-Trump thing to at least patch things over. I'm no longer willing to blindly vote D at the local level to see public education torn to shreds. I'd rather have a more balanced school board with differing opinions and diversity of thought than what we have now. I'm also more interested in keeping folks like Chap Peterson (who I previously disliked) in the party to ensure that we have all types of progressive voices present. I'm also going to take a really hard look at our gubernatorial elections because I can't stomach falling any further left. We need balance and I have to hold my nose and vote for even moderate Rs, I'm now prepared to do it.

+1000. And this why the Ds (at the party level) will call every R candidate for every office at every level Trumpist. It’s what got them where they are, it’s all they know how to do, and they are scared of losing their power if there are significant defections. I think it’s time for a change - the local Ds in Fairfax have brought us jihadists like Abrar Omeish, self-serving weirdos like Karl Frisch, and two-faced liars like Elaine Tholen.