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[quote=Anonymous]We all should agree that telling kids that their parents are bad and making bad choices is at best, not productive, and at worst harmful to the kids and to the relationship between the school and family.

There is a difference between stating facts when teaching nutrition, "here are some nutritious foods that are recommended to form the bulk of your diet" and judgment ("Lunchables are a terrible choice for school lunches in that they are lacking in nutrition and have too much sodium and fact"). Even worse is the suggestion that "good parents" don't send their kids to school with food that is not healthy and nutritious. This anti-racist training is informing volunteers and staff that they should not make disparaging comments about a child's food or parental choice of food.

What is interesting to me is that concerns about judgment and alienating kids from their families in this context mirror concerns expressed about other anti-racist teachings, where the privilege and racism of individual children and their families are pointed out publically, as opposed to teaching about general examples of racism and acts of anti-racism in a way that is not critical of any particular child or the child's parents or family. Why is it ok in one setting and not the other? [/quote]

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