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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you have a white male child, why would you ever send him to a school that makes them feel “white guilt” or they are a “male oppressor” as a 14 year old boy!  All you parents that send your kids to these woke schools deserve what you are getting![/quote]

I send my white male child to a school that is explicitly pro-equity and inclusion. He doesn't feel white guilt. Why should he feel guilty about learning about systemic racism? He didn't create it! And he sure as heck doesn't want to be a part of it. He chooses to be part of the solution, not stick his head in the sand. He feels courageous and helpful and kind, not guilty. And no, he doesn't feel like a "male oppressor." He feels like a young man who sees women as equals, and recognizes that men AND women have been dealt a crappy hand by sexism. He sees what a limited range of emotions his dad was allowed to feel growing up, and how he is now teaching his dad how to be a more open and emotionally aware man. Its really sweet, and they really adore each other. And he sees that women have been excluded from power for oh, the last thousand years or so, and that correcting that may take a minute.

There is no guilt, no shame, and no disempowerment in any of that. I find it so odd that people think that recognizing oppression means you have to identify with the oppressors just because you happen to share their skin color or gender. Why would you do that? [/quote]

Your son sounds like a great kid but I will point out at least according to op the kids are routinely saying “men shouldn’t be able to [have some desirable or powerful position]” not “toxic, sexist men…” I know what they mean and where they are coming from but op’s kid is a 14 year old at a new school and I’m not surprised that doesn’t feel great to an unsophisticated possibly lonely kid. [/quote]

It’s very misleading to call listening to peers’ blanket statement attacks and feeling disillusioned unsophisticated. 
It’s an accurate feeling and reaction to misguided narrow minded mob mentality.

You really want to teach kids to twist themselves into a pretzel kidding themselves that angry peers “really didn’t mean exactly what they keep saying.” ?[/quote]

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