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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The reason the open schools NOW debate comes off as racist is because people pose the argument from their own lens.  My school has running water; my school has X, Y and Z, etc.

If you only know what your school looks like then you don't understand how the whole system works and in a city with a LOT of Black and Brown kids and in a city where being Black and Brown means a bigger income gap, it looks very very tone deaf.

It is like saying, if you just listen to the cop you won't die.  We all know that isn't true.

I hear people saying oh the score card on dcps' website but they haven't been in the school; they haven't seen the system lie about what they have and don't have.

If all DCPS schools were the same why aren't you sending your kid to a school EOTR/P etc.

Also not understanding the challenges other families have about going back in person - real risk for medical problems; perceived risk of medical problems; access to healthcare; access to quarantine or recovery time, etc.

As people are learning to not be racist if you are white LISTEN first and then ask why what you said or did is perceived as racist.

its not about opening school for your kid its about opening it for all kids and all kids don't live like yours.

as for the problems we will have later what are you doing to ask for remediation for ALL kids.  dcps summer camp is a huge help for families, are you screaming for it to be open, for it to be open more this summer, asking for summer school options for outside.

i see people in my community complaining we can't tent our school fields for outside school because the community (i.e. 20 year olds with no kids) need it for their outside time.  [/quote]

So Mayor Bowser and Lewis Ferebee are racist for wanting to allow kids to attend school? Gotcha.

I'd say the only racist thing here is shutting down schools mostly attended by black and brown children even as private schools mostly attended by white kids are allowed to remain open. [/quote]

Deflecting gets you nowhere, you aren't addressing the issues. Simply yelling 'kids should be back in school' does not and will not address the issues. But if it makes you feel better to have such a base level of thinking, ok.[/quote]

PP here. No, I just think the word salad above is a little nonsensical. But I would love to hear you explain how a black mayor and a black superintendent are racist vs. black people by wanting their children to go to school. Or how it's not racist to have a system where rich white kids get to attend school and poor black kids do not. [/quote]

So being black automatically means you are good and just? That's interesting, I didn't know that.

And just because you are too daft to understand systemic racism, inequity in school remodeling, and how capitalism/greed can affect people in power doesn't mean what I said is a 'word salad.'

Just going to school is not enough, the pandemic has truly put a light on inequity. Your school may be ready to go back but no all schools have the same level of safety or support.[/quote]

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