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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. To clarify

The subject line of the email was"Community Message Hate Bias Event." I am not making that up. Their words not mine. It seems central office thought it was fairly serious as of their reporting this to parents.

The principal said in the email, "Students reported to school administration that a teacher said to several African American students that he was 'unable to distinguish them from other African American students' in the classroom."

Repeating, Teacher said this to SEVERAL black kids, not just two, so please don't think or make it sound like he simply confused two kids with each other.

To BCC alum PP, really very sad that this is a pattern at the school.

Agree that the radio silence from PTSA is odd.

Waiting for more official news. Have other BCC parents heard more from their DCs? Where is The Tattler on this?[/quote]

DP. BCC Alum and parent. I want to affirm the other BCC alum who said there have been reported incidents of racism unaddressed at BCC.

Same teacher also used the N-word in class. There was videotape circulating widely. She was never fired or reprimanded publicly in any way. She continued to teach all year and then retired.

And, one of my kids has long noted that students of color are treated worse when subject to potential discipline - white kid late to class can come in immediately without note. Black kid late to class needs to go to main office for note and misses a lot of class.

I have heard about these differentials as early as 1st grade. It is a systemic issue.

Students (of all colors) are offended that they have to go to school in an atmosphere of racism and intolerance.  This undermines respect for authority at school, is alienating, demotivating and negatively affects student mental health. [/quote]

And yet you are both a BCC alum and a BCC parent?  Seems you would have sought out something different for your kids if it was so terrible. [/quote]

The most vociferous advocates of social justice are often the same ones that pay exorbitant fees to live in communities where their kids don’t have to experience true inequity and issues. You find these people have chosen not to live in communities that could use their knowledge because their “education” has afforded them the ability to live in an area where the fuss over a teacher making a comment is their largest concern. They won’t live in communities where such a fuss can’t even begin to form because people are hungry and kids are overdosing everyday. Look outside your walls and see the issues forming at schools no less than 10 miles from your area. They have turned their back on those areas, sticking up their noses as they won’t even consider purchasing in those communities.

You cry noisily at the idea of racial bias in your community, yet your community is built on such issues. Get out of this BCC bubble for a couple of years and get to know what real problems in schools look like. I am sure this teacher will be ousted from BCC, but not from the field of education. He’ll likely end up teaching somewhere with a less noisy crowd of screaming parents. Probably a north county school, perhaps Prince George’s County or a DC public school. Congratulations! You have won. You will have pushed this man into a community that needs the quality teachers you hope will take this man’s place. After all, you, BCC mother, are a first-class citizen. As such, you deserve first class educators and demand greater accountability from your servants. That cut rate nonsense can go east or north, but it’s not welcome in our community!

See the paradox? Open your eyes. The world is much larger than Bethesda. The net impact of “terminating” this man is that he’ll move to a school where people don’t have your social status and ability to strong arm the board into action. He will thrive in the communities where his “micro aggressions” present the greatest societal risk. So the cycle repeats. He’ll use these terms regularly in a lower income setting - passing on the knowledge that such actions are ok. In a dozen years, I am sure one of these kids will find themself in the same situation that he is in now.

Well done!

The ability to be socially aware is the greatest privilege one can obtain through attending private school. It has, in effect, become a guard on the social mobility of individuals from lower to middle income community. It’s the great irony that those advocating for better social mobility are the very people that unable to discern the learned behaviors of growing up in a lower/middle income community. 
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