Reply to Atlantic Article on Rolling Terrace and Outsized Role of Affluent White Parents

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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is getting to be ridiculous. If you're white and send your kids to predominantly white schools, you're racist. If you're white and send your kids to "diverse" schools and then get involved in the PTA and care about your kids' education, you're racist. Is there anything white people can do that is NOT racist??[/quote]

Nice strawman you've got there.  NO ONE is saying that white parents are racist for being involved with the PTA.  Some white parents, however, are racially tone deaf when it comes to the activities they organize through the PTA and the "causes" that they direct the PTA to take on.

I work in international development.  It's a field where it is very easy to do the wrong thing for the "right" reasons.  That's why it is so important to involve local voices when planning projects/activities, and to have members of the beneficiary community (the stakeholders, as it were) as EQUAL participants in program design and implementation. [/quote]

What is the "right" reason to be involved in the PTA?? Because you care about the school and the education the kids are getting! It's basically the ONLY reason to be involved, right or wrong. I didn't think this was a very good article because the examples weren't that great. [b]It was so wrong of the PTA to purchase gift cards to thank the teachers for their hard work? Isn't that part of their job, to show teacher appreciation??[/b][/quote]

NP. It is, which is why I didn't get that example. Schools also do fundraisers for students who are disadvantaged or for other schools that are disadvantaged (toy drives, backpack drives, coat drives, dry goods for pantries, etc.). Fundraising efforts can serve multiple parties.[/quote]

I've said this a half dozen times in this thread already but why are posters focusing on donations when I was the original RT parent who said all kids get the same benefits at RT and the Atlantic got that part wrong.  We already established that!  Now let's talk about how the PTA shuts out the regular program school from all decisions and treats them with contempt.[/quote]

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