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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]These are great points. Another layer here (with hope this is helpful for ppl to see) is that while "cultural competence" is now kind of out, "cultural humility" is in. (Cultural sensitivity is still used but kind of out bc doesn't recognize power dynamics enough). Idea is that nobody should think of themselves as ever reaching competence, that it's super arrogant to think they ever fully know best, but that processes of reflexive humility, that recognize power dynamics and savior dynamics (whether or to what extent the latter are performative), are necessary. In CPS-adjacent professions, there's a lot of advocacy still, to this day, for taking into account parenting norms so that the systems do not kidnap Black children. I've heard Black parents go through the emo labor to tell me myriad times that there is literally no second chance for their kid, no leeway to experiment with book learning and elevate it over what they know and believe works best. And that post 2020 this should be even more obvious to people. Given issues in schools today kids totally need to be protected and MCPS should have some kind of constant feedback loop around how various situations go, what can go better, impact, and one that centers Black voices (students, parents, community) post 2020.[/quote]

I’m going to be honest and say I am pretty fascinated by the dynamics of those who think the AP should have intervened in a situation with parent and police. I don’t understand practically where your comments leave us. Maybe I don’t understand what they mean either.[/quote]

PP's post might benefit from a paragraph break or two, but the bottom line is that MCPS (and other districts and social service providers) urge white teachers and administrators to practice cultural humility, and not to assume that parenting norms are universal.

White educators are also constantly reminded that Black families feel the need to be stricter with their children than white families, as a result of "respectability politics" but also situations like Tamir Rice.

The one other contextual item is that, at the time, the broader political discourse was about "White cops versus Black citizens" and we weren't really yet having the much-needed conversation about how the culture of policing is itself a problem, and that problem infects Black cops as much as white ones.

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but how does this explain how the mother was able to win the lawsuit? if she was telling the [black] police to be super strict with her kid?[/quote]

She didn't win. The district settled out of court under pressure from the county, who wanted to protect bad cops so let an educator take the fall. [/quote]

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