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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think there is a difference between wanting to give your kids a great life and prioritizing them over all others. You can both want your kids to be happy and thriving but understand that “wanting the best for my kid” often comes at the expense of other kids. I want my kids- and all the kids- to be happy, thriving individuals. So no.. I don’t “prioritize” my kids if I know it will detrimentally impact others. My kids can have something less shiny, less perfect... if it means that more kids will have something similar.[/quote]

Yes, this.  I am not so selfish that I need to make sure my middle-class white kids get the absolute best of everything at other kids' expense.  They already have a ton of advantages.  If it enables schools to be more effective in improving the life trajectories of kids of color, poor kids, other kids who really need it, then I'm totally fine with my kids having longer bus rides or not getting as focused attention from the best teachers or whatever the fear is.  I love my kids, but I don't believe they deserve anything more than any other kids (and if we can't get all the kids the very best education, then there are probably a lot of other kids who should be in line before mine to be prioritized.)

This should be a basic, common sense position to take for anyone who believes in common decency and a just society, but somehow it isn't?  I'm really troubled and disturbed by the way we normalize the idea that it's okay to prioritize our own kids at the expense of everyone else's kids.  It seems pretty darn immoral to me.[/quote]

[b]I think you’re being a hypocrite.[/b]

If you: take vacations, buy books and educational toys, buy organic healthy food, cook healthy dinners every night, read to your kids when young, send them to summer camps, teach them skills like swimming, skiing, tennis, golf, etc. and saving for college, you’re giving them advantages other kids don’t have.[/quote]

WHAT? Do you have a reading comprehension problem. HOw is the poster being a hypocrite? They are literally saying their kids do not deserve anything more than other kids, and more disadvantaged kids should have priority for many things! Are they then also supposed to also not buy books, feed their kids healthy food or send them to summer camp? Why? I think you are a troll....[/quote]

DP. I thought she sounded hypocritical too. [/quote]

Agreed.  Her kids will already get less resources than the poor kids if they go to public schools, so it’s no big sacrifice on her part to accept that her kids “don’t *** deserve anything more than other kids.”  The issue is exactly how much less her kids should receive in an effort to produce equal outcomes across-the-board and whether she would, in fact, be a bad person if at some point she stops being willing to accept her kids being taken for granted and/or used as pawns to advance an “equity-at-all-costs” agenda.[/quote]

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