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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]That's not appropriate for any teacher to demand that.  She has no idea what hardships a child might have been through.  She'd hate to hear my child's story.  My child would not be participating in that.[/quote]

I don’t know your child’s story and you don’t know my white child’s story but she isn’t sharing it in class unless she is choosing to and I’m certain she is not choosing to at this time. I’d be upset at this assignment without any alternative options[/quote]

I can guarantee you that teacher would shut down my white child’s story as several teachers have before and called me about it being confusing or thinking it is made up.  But, just because you don’t want to hear it does not make it true.  [/quote]

I’m the DP Here and I have not had that experience but I cannot imagine how frustrating that must be. We live not in the DC area but in the Richmond area right where some of the main protest have been so we’ve had a lot of conversation about white privilege and what the Confederate statues mean I have my daughter understands the privilege that her white skin gives her and she has known that for years because for years her walking home from school buddy has been a black boy and that boy’s mother and I gave her the “talk “. But my daughter has experience extreme difficulties in her life that it sounds like some of the above posters might know about. These difficulties do not relate to the color of her skin so she could still complete this project with that filter but I know that she would feel sad knowing the other really big Sad things that she has in her life[/quote]

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