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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Very Entertaining to see non black parents tie themselves in knots to explain how black students should feel about the use of the N word.

The plot has truly been lost. I would not feel comfortable with any white person using the N word in front of my black child in any setting academic or not. So I completely understand the demands for an apology. [/quote]

Equally entertaining to see some Black parents decide that how they view this situation is the only way any Black parent would view it. All Black people are the same, is that it?

Yes, the plot is lost. On that, we do agree.

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It doesn’t matter how ANY black parent would view it. It matters how the black students who sat in that class and their families felt about it.

It’s seems that they took offense…so why are you so hellbent to say that they shouldn’t have felt offended?[/quote]

Frankly, I don’t give a damn how any of these people “feel” about anything.

If I send my child to GDS (which will happen when pigs fly) I have bought into the curriculum, the teaching style and everything else. I pay $50k per year because I expect my kid to get an exceptional education.  If the teacher, as a representative of the school, thinks this is important, that should be the end of the discussion.

[b]Why are these certain families/ kids coddled in this way?[/b] [/quote]
There's a deep insecurity there. When you feel powerless in society, you can accuse someone in a position of power of harming you and temporarily feel in control of a situation. Unfortunately, this is a temporary band-aid, a short-lived emotional crutch. Such children are ultimately disempowered because they cannot function with ambiguity, they are primed to feel harm, and do not believe themselves to be resilient. So many words and situations are traumatizing to them. They cannot contextualize with objectivity. (I personally believe that many students who feel this way would benefit from cognitive behavioral therapy.)[/quote]

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