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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] The announcement doesn't say anything about white people not being invited (unless I missed it?).  It says the talks plan on focusing on a certain group.  Anybody is welcome to come and participate as long as they are on topic. [/quote]

Correct, it doesn't. [/quote]

It does. It doesn’t say “whites are NOT invited”, but it says they are excited to invite “all families of children who identify as black.” If your child doesn’t identify as Black, you are not invited. [/quote]

It obviously makes clear that white people aren't invited. If it didn't do that, I don't think it would even be controversial. That said, I don't think it's a problem, but I do think they should emphasize that it's unofficial and parent-organized. If that IDEA Committee is an official thing that has school funding/admin participation, then I think it gets much more problematic... especially if there are no such meetings for other marginalized groups. Like, honeslty, I think it's a lot harder to be AA than White at SWS, but it's harder still to be latinx because the community is tiny and the school doesn't constantly celebrate your history.[/quote]

But people get more offended apparently whereas the same email with exact same text written as though it were, say, for parents of kids with dyslexia, would somehow be less offensive.[/quote]

parents of SN kids may have privacy concerns. I would probably organize a SN parent group privately (as any other parent could do for their affinity group). [/quote]

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