Reply to “We need to preserve diversity and mitigate the projected whitening of the feeder pattern”

Forum Index » DC Public and Public Charter Schools

Reply to "“We need to preserve diversity and mitigate the projected whitening of the feeder pattern”"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It sounds hostile to me. Wasn’t there also a DCPS career planning or college planning (something like that) town hall for HS students earlier this year that sent out invitations to students of color? [/quote]

Yes there was and a parent complained about it. The text message and email invite said, "Students of color are invited to attend. . . ." It was a seminar for wellness during the pandemic and included a gift box with T shirt, other swag. One of the sponsored session during the event was about "magical melanin." So, yeah, it was exclusionary and in clear violation of the law. No equivalent activities for students who are not of color were offered, and the framing of this seminar was clearly meant to discourage white students from attending.  Which is ironic b/c white students are the minority in many DCPS schools.

The parent who complained did force DCPS to note that in the future they must legally note that these seminars are open to students of all races (even as the content and focus caters exclusively to one race).

The real test of this sort of language: put the word "black" where "white" is (or vice versa) and read it again. If it sounds racist when you change the color of the people being discussed, it is racist.  Imagine the (appropriate) uproar if DCPS sent out an invitation that read "White students are invited to register for this event."

[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics