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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If the parents at low performing schools just cared more, those schools would improve. How about encouraging that? Instead, this just sounds like another rehash of "white man's burden". Seriously, woke people, this has been done, and that’s where this road will lead you.[/quote]
That's a bit harsh. I personally think that a lot of parents actually don't really know what to do. I think a lot of parents think that education is the schools "job", while their "job" is to feed and cloth their kids. It is the idea of education as a service provided by the state and not a lifelong process that has its own value. For kids that do well in school, education does not end when they leave school, parents are involved in homework and in providing added enrichment. My biggest problem is that somehow, parents that care about their kids education are also supposed to be guilted as "dream hoarders" for providing enrichment. Justice will not be served by making all kids ignorant, but more work really needs to be done to show parents in low performing schools how to model behaviors for success, like limiting screen time, promoting reading outside of what is assigned at school, etc.

I think everyone understands that kids that excel in sports or dance put in the work on their own time outside of practice, however somehow this same notion does not carry over to school and education for some reason.[/quote]

This seems to be a great example of prime DCUM.  I have no idea of PPs race or SES, but she sure sounds a lot like a lot of well meaning white liberals I know.  The attitude seems to be "I'm a white person who doesn't actually know any Black people and hasn't set foot in a DCPS outside of upper NW, but I'm going to potificate about the values of people that I actually know NOTHING about, and I think that my ignorance should be listened to because of my privilege."

"more work really needs to be done to show parents in low performing schools how to model behaviors for success". FFS -- really?  That's your take?  It's nothing to do with parents working multiple jobs, kids living in insecure places, kids witnessing trauma, food insecurity, systemic racism or the carceral state. Parents just need to "limit screen time."  Got it.

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Agree. I really think the issue is also they really have no idea and then either get into defensive mode or white guilt mode. 
Why must we talk about your feelings when the issue isn't about your feelings and why does that translate to 'white people don't matter or are evil?'
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except it is about white people’s feelings. this entire thread is about white peoples’ feelings. why don’t you take a page from your own book an “decenter” white people, and start focusing on why schools are failing black kids. [/quote]

White tears.[/quote]

You don't get it. White people do not want this to be about their feelings.[/quote]

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