Anonymous
Post 08/16/2017 17:07     Subject: DCPS Presenter at Deal made a racist remark and crowd erupted
Awkward.
Anonymous
Post 08/16/2017 17:07     Subject: Re:DCPS Presenter at Deal made a racist remark and crowd erupted
He prefaced it with "those black kids, those low-income kids..." so yeah, he mean "the poor black kids." Best part was he couldn't understand why people were upset. The central office staff made it worse by trying to say teachers weren't listening and were overreacting. It was a mess.
Anonymous
Post 08/16/2017 17:04     Subject: DCPS Presenter at Deal made a racist remark and crowd erupted
No....his words were "south east kids" - teacher there
Anonymous
Post 08/16/2017 16:58     Subject: Re:DCPS Presenter at Deal made a racist remark and crowd erupted

Maybe he meant that social-emotional (SE) learning is not for just for kids with SE goals on their IEPs. Meaning that everyone benefits from SE/social emotional learning.

I would guess that the presenter has no idea about DCs quadrants.
Anonymous
Post 08/16/2017 16:52     Subject: DCPS Presenter at Deal made a racist remark and crowd erupted
Anonymous wrote:I don't understand what he meant.


It was a professional development on social emotional needs of students.

The presenter said that social emotional learning 'isn't just for those kids from Southeast.'

Use of the word 'those' is distancing language, at best. And in this context suggested that the speaker believed the audience, DCPS teachers, might believe that only students from SE needed to work on their social emotional skills.


Anonymous
Post 08/16/2017 16:44     Subject: DCPS Presenter at Deal made a racist remark and crowd erupted
I don't understand what he meant.
Anonymous
Post 08/16/2017 16:42     Subject: DCPS Presenter at Deal made a racist remark and crowd erupted
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Well, probably not the best choice of words but it makes sense that kids living in high proverty area might need more social and emotional support to help counter act the effects of poverty. Of course, poor kids live all throughout the city, not all poor kids are need of extra support and plenty of upper SES living in SE will need support, too.
Why?


Because the need for extra support is to some degree independent of family income and ward of residence?

I wonder if the DCPS speaker meant "SE kids" as in Special Education or Socio-Emotional and just had no idea about how DC is laid out in quadrants? It would be just like DCPS to bring in a consultant from another city who spends no time learning about the District. Not that I agree with how the statement was worded in that scenario either.


If they meant Special Ed, the shorthand is 'sped' (and as a parent of a student with special needs who gets special ed services, it's offensieve too).

Anonymous
Post 08/16/2017 16:39     Subject: DCPS Presenter at Deal made a racist remark and crowd erupted
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Well, probably not the best choice of words but it makes sense that kids living in high proverty area might need more social and emotional support to help counter act the effects of poverty. Of course, poor kids live all throughout the city, not all poor kids are need of extra support and plenty of upper SES living in SE will need support, too.
Why?


Because the need for extra support is to some degree independent of family income and ward of residence?

I wonder if the DCPS speaker meant "SE kids" as in Special Education or Socio-Emotional and just had no idea about how DC is laid out in quadrants? It would be just like DCPS to bring in a consultant from another city who spends no time learning about the District. Not that I agree with how the statement was worded in that scenario either.
Anonymous
Post 08/16/2017 16:29     Subject: DCPS Presenter at Deal made a racist remark and crowd erupted
Anonymous wrote:Well, probably not the best choice of words but it makes sense that kids living in high proverty area might need more social and emotional support to help counter act the effects of poverty. Of course, poor kids live all throughout the city, not all poor kids are need of extra support and plenty of upper SES living in SE will need support, too.
Why?
Anonymous
Post 08/16/2017 16:27     Subject: DCPS Presenter at Deal made a racist remark and crowd erupted
Well, probably not the best choice of words but it makes sense that kids living in high proverty area might need more social and emotional support to help counter act the effects of poverty. Of course, poor kids live all throughout the city, not all poor kids are need of extra support and plenty of upper SES living in SE will need support, too.
Anonymous
Post 08/16/2017 16:17     Subject: DCPS Presenter at Deal made a racist remark and crowd erupted
As a Ward 8 resident I really resent that.
Anonymous
Post 08/16/2017 16:10     Subject: DCPS Presenter at Deal made a racist remark and crowd erupted
But the language that inflamed folks was "those SE kids."
Anonymous
Post 08/16/2017 16:07     Subject: DCPS Presenter at Deal made a racist remark and crowd erupted
Anonymous wrote:Woah, I wonder what he said.


According to same person who posted the video on Twitter:

"#DCPS on our district-wide PD intentionally claimed social-emotional needs as "not just for those SE kids."

Think he/she meant "social-emotional support"
Anonymous
Post 08/16/2017 16:04     Subject: DCPS Presenter at Deal made a racist remark and crowd erupted
Woah, I wonder what he said.
Anonymous
Post 08/16/2017 15:35     Subject: DCPS Presenter at Deal made a racist remark and crowd erupted
DCPS teachers had a PD at Deal today. One of the presenters made a racist remark about "SE DC" kids and the teachers went wild. This is the only video I could find. https://twitter.com/amob30/status/897828226072014849