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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"No I won't sit in my seat. That's racist."
"Why are you asking me to pull up my mask? That's racist."
"Why'd you tag me? You're racist."

These are the type of comments said to both the teacher and other students by an 11-year-old. What's a good way to engage this student?

Background: This is in a weekend program at a museum where I just started volunteering for as a teacher's aide. It's a new group of students, so there's no history or background between this student and the authority figures. In fact, since the kids come from a lot of different schools, there's so not much history with the other kids that I know of. The kids are roughly 1/2 white, 1/4 black, 1/4 latino. The teachers/adult volunteers for this particular class group are white or Asian. This particular student ended up sitting in a corner refusing to participate most of the session.[/quote]

It’s the perpetual victimhood mentality of today’s kids, particularly minority kids. [/quote]

+1000

It is divisive.  It is destructive.  It is toxic.

- and there is only one political party pushing the victimhood narrative:  the democrats.  I just can’t vote for them anymore.[/quote]

That's a fun argument to make, I bet, but that's not at all what democrats are pushing. I do run into this toxic mentality from time to time, but it's not "because they're democrats" or "victims of democratic thinking." It's because the kids have toxic or mentally ill or paranoid or severely disadvantaged and bitter parents. The one I know the best is also an antivaxer, because...distrust. It's tragic. And I can believe that AND that our society has issues with systemic and pervasive racism. But it is not "because of democrats." Ugh. [/quote]

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