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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My daughter is a part of a club and last night they did something called a privilege rally where they had a list of things like “I have never been a religious minority” “I have never wondered where my next meal will come from” “my parents are still married.” There were 75 items on the list and kids had to check off each item as it applied to them and then tally them up and place their number on a board. All the other kids had numbers in the 60s and 70s, my daughter had a number in the 30s.

She felt extremely isolated, and while I have to imagine some of this is sort of a “no one is staring at you you’re just self conscious” situation she says she felt like everyone was looking at her and she doesn’t want to go back.

Suggestions on how to handle this?[/quote]

Perhaps a conversation with the leader of the exercise at the club, where you say that making children who have less privilege feel conspicuous for having less privilege is presumably counter-productive to the intended point of the exercise, so next time please don't ask the kids to post the numbers publicly.[/quote]

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