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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Genuine question. Am I the only person that thinks this club would be an utter waste of time? It feels like one of those classes called “current events”, which provide no meaningful instruction. That kind of extracurricular seems to lead to a degree in gender/ethnic studies with a fast track for a barista job at Starbucks. I realize everyone is different, but personally I would dissuade my child to participate in such a club. Why not doing some more meaningful and useful like volunteering, an internship, a sport, band, high school newspaper, or a club that adds some academic benefit like robotics, debate etc.

Of all possible activities, doing a club about CRT seems like one of the worst choices.[/quote]

Oh total waste of time. Maybe they should do chess instead. Memorizing ways to move people around on some squares would be a much better use of time than discussing thing like how banks charged Black people higher interest rates and the way that has impacted their ability to build wealth. [/quote]

Not to get into the politics of it, but you are bringing an example from half a century ago. Suit yourself, for sure you’d be wrecking that student’s ability to build future wealth with an ethnic studies degree and $200k in student loans. Another $200k for a Master degree and she’s really screwed for the rest of her life.[/quote]

It's fine for the white kids. Black kids should just stay away. [/quote]

Black and white kids that want to be future productive members of society should stay away.

The main tenet of CRT today is that any disparity among racial groups is due to systemic racism. Besides being highly controversial, and providing no tangible employable skill, if this is what you want your child’s future career, good luck to her, she’s going to need plenty of it.[/quote]

This is hyperbolic BS.  As if participating in a CRT (or whatever) club in HS means your going for a college degree in "Marxist-afro-queer intersectional studies."

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It’s not hyperbolic at all.

Future engineers participate in robotics clubs.
Future scientists and mathematicians participate in science and math olympiads.
Future lawyers participate in debate and model UN clubs.

People develop their interests and aptitudes way before college, extracurricular clubs in high school is one such venue. See a pattern?

Future waiters with useless degrees and student debt participate in CRT club. I’m quite sure not many in the CRT club will get degrees in engineering and sciences.

The suggestion of setting an ally club is laughable. As if the dream of every teenager is to be the secondary character in someone else’s story. I want my kids to be leaders not followers.

Marxist-afro-queer intersectional studies is exactly what I don’t want my child to study, or at least not while a co-sign their student loan.
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OP here. You sound very afraid of my daughter’s intentions. I mean, you sound really threatened.

Are you going to protest if she does it in your school?

She has reached out this snowy weekend to a few groups and is learning about funding. [/quote]

Not in the least. She can do whatever she wants, including wasting her time and getting saddled with a huge student debt for a useless degree, should she choose so. Since you asked on a public forum I am giving my perspective. You don’t need to agree with me.[/quote]

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