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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They are trying to make kids aware of race. And they are trying to teach kids to notice diversity. They want the kids to respect the diversity of the school and classroom and their neighborhoods. [/quote]

Why should they be aware of race?  Why can't they come to their own terms about traits they see in peers without it being forced on them.  I don't think it's about diversity as the many cultural events at school highlights the customs of the student population.  The way I see it, it appears that now DC is thinking of other kids differently than before when this would've never occurred to DC and not in a positive way.

DC did say the teacher specially said the part about not being able to play with others which again is not really true.[/quote]

I agree with this. The schools focus so much on race that they are essentially teaching our kids to view people by the color of their skin. Before school, my kids did not point out people by race. Plus school only focus on AA and white and not the complexity of the human racial makeup. The other day my 5 year old pointed out a person and mater of factly said "he's AA"...the gentleman happened to be from India.  He was taught that dark skin is AA but the school forgot to point out that other racial groups have dark skin too.

We are a multicultural family and focus on culture and what makes "people" a joy to be around. One can do this and teach the evolution of human physical characteristics with out pin pointing. The school has good intentions but they are teaching our kids to notice race when in fact most kids don't care what a person looks like.[/quote]

Have you read Nurture Shock? Ignoring does not teach kids that race doesn't matter. They DO notice race and will make up their own (incorrect) explanations if you don't provide them.[/quote]

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