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Anonymous wrote:Someone please let us the outcome of their lawsuit.

Does the school still teach 4th graders about the Underground Railroad? How is this taught now if at all?

Don't suppose they teach that there were White Republican abolitionists involved in the Underground Railroad.

Maybe I should sue to ask my kid's private school puts more Republicans on its board and trains faculty to be more tolerant of students from White Republican families?

Yes, that happens. Schools also cover that Republicans ultimately decided to cast their lot with segregationists in the 20th century. Being the offspring of Charles Sumner in the mid-1800s doesn't get you a "free to be racist" pass in the 2020s because of an ancestor's good deeds.

Being a Republican does not make you a racist.

Believing in freedom and liberty and equal opportunity does not make you a racist.

The Republican party: not racist, but #1 among racists!

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I don't understand why posters are criticizing the lawsuit. It seems totally legitimate and grounded. I wouldn't want such an Underground Railroad exercise in any school! It's just as bad as the slave auctions some southern school was accused of having!

These schools are trying to teach black history. Regardless of how it is taught someone will object.

I think suing every time you don't like a lesson plan is not productive.

Did you read the article? Are you actually defending that 4th graders should all act like runaway slaves in dark corridors, while teachers try to catch them?

This is NOT teaching history, of any kind. I thought the rules were self-evident. No blackface, no telling students to act as slaves. What kind of idiot doesn't know this?

Come on, people. This school could have averted a lawsuit and negative publicity by changing their insensitive curriculum, as well as other things the parents complained about. The correct procedure would have been asking all the parents of the school to give their opinions, to give everyone the feeling they'd been heard. Instead, they expelled the innocent children of the complainers. Bad, bad move, because in education, negative publicity deters families from applying.

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I don't understand why posters are criticizing the lawsuit. It seems totally legitimate and grounded. I wouldn't want such an Underground Railroad exercise in any school! It's just as bad as the slave auctions some southern school was accused of having!

These schools are trying to teach black history. Regardless of how it is taught someone will object.

I think suing every time you don't like a lesson plan is not productive.

They are not suing over a lesson plan. They are suing because the head of the school unceremoniously kicked out their children via email in response to the parents asking to changing some racially-inappropriate learning materials.

The head of the school sounds like a thin-skinned lunatic who exposed his institution to liability. I bet this isn't his first rodeo with lawsuits.

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I don't understand why posters are criticizing the lawsuit. It seems totally legitimate and grounded. I wouldn't want such an Underground Railroad exercise in any school! It's just as bad as the slave auctions some southern school was accused of having!

These schools are trying to teach black history. Regardless of how it is taught someone will object.

I think suing every time you don't like a lesson plan is not productive.

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Anonymous wrote:Someone please let us the outcome of their lawsuit.

Does the school still teach 4th graders about the Underground Railroad? How is this taught now if at all?

Don't suppose they teach that there were White Republican abolitionists involved in the Underground Railroad.

Maybe I should sue to ask my kid's private school puts more Republicans on its board and trains faculty to be more tolerant of students from White Republican families?

Yes, that happens. Schools also cover that Republicans ultimately decided to cast their lot with segregationists in the 20th century. Being the offspring of Charles Sumner in the mid-1800s doesn't get you a "free to be racist" pass in the 2020s because of an ancestor's good deeds.

Being a Republican does not make you a racist.

Believing in freedom and liberty and equal opportunity does not make you a racist.

I don't understand why posters are criticizing the lawsuit. It seems totally legitimate and grounded. I wouldn't want such an Underground Railroad exercise in any school! It's just as bad as the slave auctions some southern school was accused of having!

Good friends, who happen to be an interracial couple, were falsely told an offer had been accepted on a house and that they were out of the running. They learned later that the house was still on market and that the owner didn't want to sell to them. They sued the owner and broker, won the suit, and donated the money to a fair housing non profit. Nothing about this suit surprises me, including their pledge to donate any proceeds to DEIB work.

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Anonymous wrote:Someone please let us the outcome of their lawsuit.

Does the school still teach 4th graders about the Underground Railroad? How is this taught now if at all?

Don't suppose they teach that there were White Republican abolitionists involved in the Underground Railroad.

Maybe I should sue to ask my kid's private school puts more Republicans on its board and trains faculty to be more tolerant of students from White Republican families?

Yes, that happens. Schools also cover that Republicans ultimately decided to cast their lot with segregationists in the 20th century. Being the offspring of Charles Sumner in the mid-1800s doesn't get you a "free to be racist" pass in the 2020s because of an ancestor's good deeds.

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Anonymous wrote:Not surprised. Rich white people are pretty toxic.

~signed, rich white person who pulled kids out of private for public

Do you get an award for your humble brag?

Signed - a parent without a descriptive BS title

No I’m telling you it’s a super toxic environment and I hated every minute. There’s no humble brag in hell, lady.

Maybe Craig should join the Ukrainian Foreign Legion. "Enough talking"

They should move to DC. I know a few schools that would welcome them with open arms.

Maybe their kids will sue them when they get a bit older and realize that their parents are hurting their reputations.

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Anonymous wrote:This story is wild.

https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/education/2022/04/19/michelle-obamas-brother-his-wife-sue-university-school-milwaukee/7367191001/

Doesn't seem so wild to me. What makes it wild to you?

Frankly, the parents seem like a$$hats.

This. Seems like a money/attention grab.

Craig Robinson does not need any money.

Ha! Rich people always need more, more, more. Even if he doesn’t, he definitely thinks that he needs more attention.

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Anonymous wrote:This story is wild.

https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/education/2022/04/19/michelle-obamas-brother-his-wife-sue-university-school-milwaukee/7367191001/

Doesn't seem so wild to me. What makes it wild to you?

Frankly, the parents seem like a$$hats.

This. Seems like a money/attention grab.

Craig Robinson does not need any money.

Anonymous wrote:Thank goodness!! junior Kindergarten is saved!!

Michelle’s brother searching for 12 minutes of fame. Pathetic.

+1. This is clearly a trumped up farce using the hottest heartstring ticket of our time: race.