^^ NBC4 is covering it. Coming up...

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Anonymous wrote:The Federalist? Totally a legit news source. Freak OP

People get their news from a variety of sources, especially now that publications like the Washington Post are all-in on the equity agenda in FCPS and, for example, purposefully fail to cover emails in which FCPS officials and School Board members made clear their intent was to change TJ admissions for racial reasons and that they thought anti-Asian discrimination was funny.

As long as the information is sourced, which the FCPS privilege bingo absolutely was (efforts to suggest otherwise notwithstanding), it doesn't matter whether it's covered in The Federalist or The Nation.

+1 glad it's finally getting covered even if it's only on the nbc website and not on the evening news. I'm tired of the "nope - didn't happen FAKE NEWS!" if it's not covered by the liberal news.

Same thing happened with Woke Kindergarten. I'm sure there more and parents have no idea.

Stop it now

That’s the Federalist omg propaganda galore

CRT not taught in one classroom in America Youngkin lied you fell for it now you get crappy privatized schools oh and he wants coal back as an energy source.
You all are idiots and the heritage foundation now in charge of … again VA is headed to a very dark place

Jobs taxes you all are hosed

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Anonymous wrote:If you don't believe it is a privilege, then reject the benefit.

Case closed.

If you think it is simply a privilege, then enlist and serve long enough to earn the benefit.

The Army is hiring right now.

The dependent children are not enlisted and do not serve in the military. Yet they receive the benefit. Reading is fundamental! Yeah, yeah, blah, blah, blah, all the moves and relocations and all those other acronyms my military neighbors use....TDY, PCS, etc.....LOL.

You could have served so your kids could also experience the "privilege " of sacrifice.

If you aren't too old, you can still enlist.

Then you can extend your enlistment by several years so you can transfer your GI bill through the post 911 benefit.

Although it might be far more of a sacrifice than you would be willing to make for your kids or your country.

Check out the army recruiting office near you. I am sure they would be happy to share the process of how you can qualify for the post 911 GI bill.

Sorry, my income expectations and cost of living do not intersect with military grade pay scales. A hard pass.

Oh, the irony.

Anonymous wrote:I would have flunked that identity bingo - only one working parent who worked fulltime, who didn't go to college, walked or rode my bike to school, not religious but certainly not Christian, not male - it would have seriously given me a self-confidence crisis. Thank god I didn't think of myself as underprivileged!

Are you white?

Survey says… privileged.

I think that resentful, anti military poster has rose colored glasses on what deployments actually do to a family.

Deployments are HARD, but often, the reunification is even harder and sometimes traumatic. Parents don't return the same person who left, and sometimes that new parent is very disruptive or destructive to the family unit.

Kids spend the deployment trying to be the second "adult" in the house, particularly if they have younger siblings. That carries a unique level of sacrifice for the country, particularly if the kid is trying to be "brave" through the deployment.

Deployment reunifications are not just uniformed parent jumping out of the float at the high school football game while everyone cheers and cries like you see on TV. They are hard, and very disruptive to the family unit.

Also, military kids and families serve the country and military too. That is drilled into families at every assignment.

Command spouses are actually sent to a week of training by the military, starting at squadron commander level, at least in the Air Force. The military flies the spouses to a single base (probably done by zoom now) prior to the change of command, and spends a week training them on all of their unpaid duties and expectations as a command spouse. I have done this twice. The classes range from everything from helping other families navigate the military support systems to aiding young airman families to providing support for families of deployed members to the best practices of supporting squadron members families who just learned that their servicemember was killed or wounded in action. Command spouses are trained on the mortuary system and the notification process. They are told that everything they do and say reflects on the military and are expected to act accordingly.

All of this training makes it clear that spouses of active duty do indeed serve too.

Additionally, children of command families have a litany of events that they are strongly volun-told to attend throughout the assignments. They are dressed up, paraded around, and expected to be on their best behavior, to provide the perception of a nice welcoming, family centered environment to help make junior service members feel more confortable when the young parents can't find or can't afford sitters and have to bring their kids along with them to various events.

These are all parts of family service in the military that those like the acronym poster might be completely unaware of.

The kids serve too. Anyone who says otherwise is grossly misinformed.

This article on this issue is comprehensive and well written:

https://sanzi.substack.com/p/privilege-bingo-military-kids-need

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Anonymous wrote:I saw this elsewhere but wasn’t sure it was true. Why is being a military kid privileged???

Also how do you win? The person who covers the most squares? What is the assumption here that only white lids grow up in stable 2 parent homes with college educated parents who go to work? This is example of why I don’t back any of the CRT type lessons. They are so bizarre and random but white democrats love it bc it makes them feel woke. Imagine being the non white kids during these classes?

If better more accurate history books are needed, the. get those but skip these nonsense lessons.

The military kids in Oakton are likely to be children of officers.

And college is basically taken care of for them. That's huge.

Do you know how high divorce is in the military? I'm the daughter of an officer. Everyone my dad worked with was either divorced or single at 40. My mom got full custody and she made 30k a year so we were not rich, to put it nicely. My dad loved us but always put his job first and basically ignored us when he got deployed. And just because officers can pay for college doesn't mean they do. He didn't let me get a liberal arts degree and before I was even in middle school he started reminding me to check the Hispanic box instead of the Biracial box so I could get a diversity scholarship. I also didn't get any scholarships, credits, or advantage just because my dad was in the military.

Serving wine with that cheese? Your dad made a choice. In fact, he made many choices.......apparently.

DP. PP is highlighting her “privilege” as a military kid, but doesn’t fit the idiotic FCPS bingo narrative so you insult her. FCPS hates military families.

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Anonymous wrote:I saw this elsewhere but wasn’t sure it was true. Why is being a military kid privileged???

Also how do you win? The person who covers the most squares? What is the assumption here that only white lids grow up in stable 2 parent homes with college educated parents who go to work? This is example of why I don’t back any of the CRT type lessons. They are so bizarre and random but white democrats love it bc it makes them feel woke. Imagine being the non white kids during these classes?

If better more accurate history books are needed, the. get those but skip these nonsense lessons.

The military kids in Oakton are likely to be children of officers.

And college is basically taken care of for them. That's huge.

Do you know how high divorce is in the military? I'm the daughter of an officer. Everyone my dad worked with was either divorced or single at 40. My mom got full custody and she made 30k a year so we were not rich, to put it nicely. My dad loved us but always put his job first and basically ignored us when he got deployed. And just because officers can pay for college doesn't mean they do. He didn't let me get a liberal arts degree and before I was even in middle school he started reminding me to check the Hispanic box instead of the Biracial box so I could get a diversity scholarship. I also didn't get any scholarships, credits, or advantage just because my dad was in the military.

Serving wine with that cheese? Your dad made a choice. In fact, he made many choices.......apparently.

Anonymous wrote:I would have flunked that identity bingo - only one working parent who worked fulltime, who didn't go to college, walked or rode my bike to school, not religious but certainly not Christian, not male - it would have seriously given me a self-confidence crisis. Thank god I didn't think of myself as underprivileged!

Your voice is not respected by those that promoted this bingo game. And they will never see your point of view — talk about close-mindedness.

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So is this the root of the “CRT” issue for Republicans?

They don’t want schools to teach anything related “being a good person”?

Empathy
Gratitude
Honesty
Responsibility
Respecting others
Etc

I guess they don’t want their own kids to realize they are a-holes.

They are not teaching gratitude. They are creating guilt. There is a big difference.

It is also not helpful to the less privileged. Being told you are a victim is self=-fulfilling.

And recognizing privilege is not “guilt”.

It clearly is for a lot of white people on this thread, which means they are completely missing the point of the lessons. You're (the general you) choosing to feel guilty for something that is an inherent privilege is keeping you from opening up to the sort of discourse and dialogue that could actually lead to progress

Keep your CRT crap out of the classroom or give us vouchers so we can send our kids to private school instead. Period.

Seeking a handout?????? Pull yourself up by your own bootstraps and write a check to private school, MAGA man!

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Anonymous wrote:If you don't believe it is a privilege, then reject the benefit.

Case closed.

If you think it is simply a privilege, then enlist and serve long enough to earn the benefit.

The Army is hiring right now.

The dependent children are not enlisted and do not serve in the military. Yet they receive the benefit. Reading is fundamental! Yeah, yeah, blah, blah, blah, all the moves and relocations and all those other acronyms my military neighbors use....TDY, PCS, etc.....LOL.

You could have served so your kids could also experience the "privilege " of sacrifice.

If you aren't too old, you can still enlist.

Then you can extend your enlistment by several years so you can transfer your GI bill through the post 911 benefit.

Although it might be far more of a sacrifice than you would be willing to make for your kids or your country.

Check out the army recruiting office near you. I am sure they would be happy to share the process of how you can qualify for the post 911 GI bill.

Sorry, my income expectations and cost of living do not intersect with military grade pay scales. A hard pass.

I would have flunked that identity bingo - only one working parent who worked fulltime, who didn't go to college, walked or rode my bike to school, not religious but certainly not Christian, not male - it would have seriously given me a self-confidence crisis. Thank god I didn't think of myself as underprivileged!

I have been educating my children about their privileges since they wer little, with an emphasis on not screwing up the things I passed on to them or worked to give them.

Anonymous wrote:This activity was created with the purpose to either:
A. Inflict shame on the students who meet some (if not most) of the criteria described in the bingo, at the same time to further devalue those who can’t identify with it—and by so doing, plant a seed of resentment and hate towards their “privileged” peers who are portrayed as the reason for their misery.

B. Inflict such discomfort on all students (miserables and privileged) in order to trigger their critical thinking skills by forcing them to question the bingo activity; refute it; and finally, voice their opinion. Nah, that would be giving too much credit to FCPS; I’ll stick with choice A.

Definitely A.

I am happy the local news is covering this.

Fcps "apology" was half hearted and scripted at best.