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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If the kids are white they are "creative" and "not challenged" or "need a 504 plan." If they are nonwhite they are "disruptive" and "parents don't care."[/quote]

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I like to be optimistic and think that most people don't realize the bias they have when labeling/defining disruptive behavior. [/quote]

White saviors coming to the rescue! It is patently offensive when people like you chime in to explain how POC embrace disruptive classrooms and low standards.

P.S. I know, I know. Just like all the other white saviors who get called out you will magically be non-white when you reply. [/quote]

How do you know the race of anonymous posters?[/quote]

Asks the well meaning white woman...

POC who want their kids to get a good education don't sit around wishing there were more disruptions in our classrooms in some weird show of support and solidarity to the black community. DCUM is filled with people who like to preach to my community that the only way to help us is to force our kids to go to lousy IB schools. They complain that there are only 20%/26% Black/AA at schools like BASIS and Latin and conclude that the best way to be "allies" is to advocate for those seats to be eliminated. You all don't care about black my high performing black kid getting an education because you don't see my kid when you talk in broad strokes about AA kids and EOTR.     [/quote]

I may be reading this wrong but I don't think anybody was advocating for schools that can't manage behavior. The only point was that at some schools if there is a behavior, they are labeled 'bad kids', and at other schools if there is a behavior it is often written off as a product of something underlying, and treated differently.

I don't know the race of any of these prior posters, but I think everybody is agreeing that disruptive behaviors are not good for learning. [/quote]

No, they aren't. [/quote]

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