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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

Who? [b]Cause it’s not black teachers[/b]. We have constantly been fighting to hold parents accountable and the school system. I have had colleagues who have been hit by children on purpose but they receive no discipline. I am NOT saying suspension is the only way but we have noticed that we want to handle black children in a way that gives those children and parents no accountability. I understand trauma, low SES, etc. are HUGE, however we don’t provide therapy and job growth opportunities at the school level. The city seems to think a sprinkle of low income housing and giving them a little money is enough. It’s not.

They have to be taught their child’s education is paramount. Not wearing Jordan’s. And before I get hate, yes duh not all low black SES families are like this. That’s absurd.[/quote]

All "black teachers" are not the same anymore than the "black community" is all the same. It would be utter hypocrisy for me not to make that point after unloading on white people for saying all black people are the same. But on the whole my experience with black teachers and administrators is in line with what you have said.

That doesn't mean you don't get smacked for trying to do your job and lift up the black children. I don't know any black teachers who haven't been called "uncle Tom" or "sellout" or a "white puppets" for trying to discipline a black child or hold them to account or demand more from them. That's a defense mechanism designed to deflect accountability for a kid's shitty behavior and shitty parenting. I just think that line of race baiting is less apt to work with black teachers because lord knows they deal with much worse as blacks in America. But for white teachers more often than not it works, especially with the white social justice warriors being "allies" who lately seem to have been sold on the idea that if a black person takes offense to something a white person did then clearly it was offensive. Oddly I feel sorry for some of these white people (lots on DCUM) who are legitimately confused. Somewhere along the way some black folk convinced them that being an "ally" means ceasing common sense and allowing any and all behavior and excuse to work as long as it is proffered by a black face. It meant they needed to nod in affirmation when crazy black people claimed that violent criminals were the true victims, not the people they victimized (which, notwithstanding the reporting on this, more often than not are other black people). [/quote]

You are a great writer and I know exactly what you are talking about.

Honestly I think one of the real issues is that a lot of white liberals aren’t actually friends with any black people or don’t have any black people in their family.  So they are basically gullible. They mean well, but they don’t have friends who would tell them “Don’t be an idiot.”

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Preach! (Or black friends with whom they can disagree just like they can with all their white friends, without those black people throwing "lived experience" and "racist" in their faces to silence them into submission.[/quote]

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