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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] What are biracial kids going to do? Are we white now? Do we check the box? [/quote]

That depends.

What’s the texture of your hair?

Skin tone?

Can you pass?

Parents still married?

Accepted by white grandparents?

Is there inheritance?

Is your dad the white one?

Do you have his last name?

Of course, if your biracial ness is white/Asian you don’t have to answer any previous questions. Asians are “white adjacent” now so being both just makes you white and therefore privileged and[b] you ought to be ashamed.[/b][/quote]

This is the biggest piece of the anti - CRT playbook. Telling people that CRT exists to shame people. You were so close to getting it right that it is about acknowledging privilege. [b]Nobody is asking white people to feel shame, but to simply acknowledge that it is GENERALLY easier to live life as a white person in America, and then shares evidence of why that is.[/b]

You, on the other hand, should probably be ashamed of your simplistic dismissal of an important topic.[/quote]

Why?  Why is this important?  What purpose does doing this have?
And, is this something that should be done in an English class when we have a pretty miserable record of achievement when compared to other countries?  [/quote]

We don’t know the details of the assignment. Only this one page.

The assignment could have been asking students to examine their own perspective before reading or discussing characters in a book. Maybe the book had characters in the military. 
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If this were the case, FCPS would have clarified and explained why this activity was beneficial.  They didn't.  
That tells me that this was a pathetic attempt at focusing on characteristics of people that, for the most part, they have no choice in.  
Examining one's perspective can be done in much better ways then this lame attempt.  An open ended question about one's perspective is so much more enriching and employs a ton more critical thinking than the crap on this sheet, that, BTW - makes HUGE assumptions.  [/quote]

Or FCPS realizes that the mob isn’t rational and it’s better just to cut losses.

Anyone at Oakton who can pull up the instructions?

You are making assumptions about how this sheet was intended to be used. 
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