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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Oven v Wells

Oven has had some health issues recently, but is by far the better candidate.  Wells supports getting rid of teaching CRT (Critical Race Theory) which is not taught in MCPS.  Is also a board member of an anti-LGBTQ+ organization.  [/quote]

What I think conservatives object to (because I do) is not the content, but the approach.  There are two ways to go about this:  a common humanity approach or a common enemy approach.

What we have, in practice, is the common enemy approach:  All too often kids (as well as adults) think there is one bad group (whites in power) and one good group (everyone else), and they then see each other as exemplars of those groups.    And so there is a lot of animosity right now in terms of race relations in the schools.

If the schools could turn it around to a common humanity approach (and I wish this is the tack that Wells and others would take), the schools would emphasize the need to dismantle structural racism, but cut it out with the white privilege and white fragility framework.  That makes it too personal.   And kids, developmentally, really can't see the nuance here.   And it just leads, in many cases, to white kids who think Black kids can't take care of themselves, and Black kids thinking whites are the cause of all their problems.  I particularly hate that part of it, because it takes the locus of control away, which is bad for everyone's mental health. [/quote]

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