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[quote=Anonymous]People need to learn about this before our SB goes further down the primrose path.

The SB is clearly on board or they would not have spent all that money on having Kendi speak to the administrators.

What is the value in this?
What is the danger in this?

What do they expect to achieve by including this in our curriculum?

This is just an "easy" way to act like they are doing something to help the achievement gap.   It is a lot easier to throw money at a program than it is to do what will really help minority children--i.e. to educate them.  This program promotes victimhood among AA kids and makes white kids admit "white privilege"--aka white guilt.

Do they really think this will fix the problem?  It won't.  Will this enable kids to achieve more?  No.  It is divisive.

There is no denial that AA individuals and communities have been victims of racism.  But, you don't fix it with more racism.  You teach history--the good and the bad.  You don't have to cast off great ideas because the individual espousing them was flawed.   You can learn about historical figures without looking like them.  You should encourage kids to identify with the ideas of good people in history--not their sex or color.  It is almost like we now have to divvy up the historical figures by what they look like--not by what they accomplished

I'm no psychologist, but I did teach school and I taught all kinds of kids.  Rich, poor, Black, white, Asian, and Hispanic.  NO one benefits from being a victim or feeling like a bully.  And, some kids get worse if you look at them as a bully.  You sympathize with a kid who has been mistreated and certainly do not ignore the actions of the one doing the mistreatment, but you have to encourage both.  You encourage the victim to overcome it and you encourage the bully to be a better person.  But, you don't place guilt on someone who is not mistreating others and you don't make someone feel like a victim because of his/her color.

You don't ignore the Pilgrim story because the people were white.  Thanksgiving may not have been as presented, but the people did come for religious freedom.  That is important.  You don't ignore slavery because it is unpleasant and uncomfortable to discuss.  But, you also must move on.  No one here today was a Pilgrim.  No one here today was a slave or a slaveholder.  You teach it.

Please read both sides of this program and speak up to the School Board.

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