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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Culture of low expectations-  assume that balck parents care most about crap food and delicate white parents. B
 News flash, black parents want academic rigor and high expectations and better options for their kids. [/quote]

Haven't you heard? In the new era of the woke-police, white people need to assume that all black children come from single family households (or foster care) and are incapable of advancing academically beyond wherever they are in school right now. To assume black kids (like all kids) can do better and push black kids and demand more from them (as white people and teachers would with all other kids) is apparently now racist. Oh, and black kids who are morbidly obese in ES need to be praised for their "curves" and their parents similarly praised for loving them enough to feed them food that causes diabetes and other major health concerns.

It is no wonder that the families of top performing black kids flee DCPS and HRCS before our kids internalize these limiting messages about their capabilities and worth.     [/quote]

Imagine waking up this wrong and angry. Go back to bed[/quote]

Yes, I am angry. Angry that a small bunch of loud black people have decided that lowered expectations somehow means "equity" and that they've guilted a bunch of white people into thinking being an ally means reinforcing negative stereotypes about my black kids. But I do so enjoy the white liberal masses on DCUM lecturing POC about how we need to be more sensitive to the needs of the black community.

(This is where PP will come back and say "she's black". Never fails on DCUM that anytime someone's liberal guilt or condescending white concern gets called out they miraculously turn out to be black. You'd think 90% of DCUM is POC!)[/quote]

Well no angry person. I’m not black, but I’m a teacher in a EOTR ES who doesn’t appreciate you speaking for all educators. I don’t know how you’ve become so misinformed and jaded toward equity but it’s not at all about lowering expectations for low income kids, which in DCPS does mostly correlate to black children. Things such as mastery based learning, UDL, differentiated instruction, SEL and other new trends in urban education aren’t about lowering the bar or infusing negative stereotypes about black children.

I do  agree that the TFA generation was indoctrinated with a white martyrdom complex that is going to take time to shatter, especially as they have gotten a stranglehold on power both locally in DCPS and also at the federal levels. Because, you know, they couldn’t actually teach and leveraged their degrees + “experience” into jobs they aren’t remotely qualified for. So as I’ve typed this out I guess I’m realizing that a lot of what you said is true, especially since those are the people that control messaging and higher level policy decisions.

Feel like I lost my point along the way and I guess I just want to know [b]what I can do to be a better advocate and ally[/b]

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Equity doesn't mean just getting kids access to schools and resources and then patting yourselves on the back that they entered the building without regard to outcome. Equity doesn't mean letting a black boy act a fool in class because correcting his behavior offends some sense of liberal guilt. (Neither should a black boy be treated more harshly than a white counterpart, obviously). Equity doesn't mean worrying about getting very poorly performing kids to improve and ignoring the need for academic excellence for all kids (including black ones). The "black community" isn't a monolithic beast that speaks with one voice anymore than Trump supporters in white trash America are the same as the white folks in NYC who support AOC. The loudmouth black mother in your class who tells you that it is racist to demand her kid do his homework and do it well is full of shit and doesn't speak for "black people".

A moment ago someone actually replied with an exasperated tone to basically say, "I don't understand why "black people" won't just tell us what they want. It is confusing and upsetting and I am going to check out until "black people" tell us what they want." And of course her white friend replied to say what a great job she'd done demanding black people come to a decision. [/quote]

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