Anonymous wrote:Besides how facile, superficial, and lazy these kinds of exercises are, they are just a complete and utter waste of precious time.

ITA.

Kids haven't had a full week of school in how long? And, the past two years have resulted in a decline in student achievement across the nation, particularly by minority students.

So, the FCPS Instructional Services thinks.... "Hey, let's have a "Privilege Bingo" game for our high school students!!! That would be fun!"

WTH? I remember just a few years ago teachers were complaining they didn't have time to teach all the standards they were required to teach. This just doesn't cut it. At all.

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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.

What are you talking about? This is false.

Is this new? My mom was a captain and my father was an Admiral, my and my siblings’ college wasn’t paid for by the military.

Yes, it is new. The Montgomery GI bill was not transferrable. The Post 9/11 GI bill is transferrable AFTER 10 year of service. It is 36 months of tuition, so will basically cover 4 years of college for one person. It's an amazing benefit, but certainly doesn't pay for every military kid's college. This was one thing the military offered in the early 2000s when troops were being deployed overseas and they needed to up retention and joins. I would like to see the number of military who actually use it for their kids or spouse instead of on themselves. You all here mainly know high level officers, but as someone serving as enlisted, we really don't make that much money. And the vast majority of enlisted do not have a college education so will use the GI bill to help themselves get a job when they retire from the military, usually around age 38. Not use it on their kids.

My bigger problem with this card, personally, is the thought that those who are not able to x out these squares must feel "less than". Are we teaching everyone in that classroom that if you come out as gay or transgender that you lose your privilege? I think these things need to be talked about, but not with a bingo card. They can all be addressed with a lot more nuance through literature and history lessons. I'd also like to see a hopeful conversation about how the grandparents or great-grandparents of someone who is "privileged" would have answered these questions when they were 16.

Even as a "super liberal" I'm appalled that anyone thought this was ok.

Anonymous wrote:Trigger warning for sexual violence.

I'm so tired of crap like this. I can mark off almost every square. I grew up UMC, had my own room, went to an elite boarding school, etc. But guess what. My parents constantly fought and are incredibly toxic, abusive, controlling people. I was bullied starting in elementary school and it continued until I went to college. At that "wonderful" high school I went to, I was treated like crap by the teachers, sexually harassed by a coach, threatened with violence by a different coach/teacher, constantly sexually harassed by other students, and finally stalked and violently raped by the student manager of one of those teams. I have severe PTSD and it's had far-reaching impacts on my life. So no, I am not magically privileged just because I'm a white college grad.

Thats a very traumatic experience and I'm truly sorry you have had these experiences.

If you have read the other posts on this thread, defenders of Anti - bias and anti - racist education such as myself have acknowledged that there will be outliers to privilege. It doesn't mean that the world we live in isn't systemically advantageous for white people.

https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/fairfax-students-assigned-privilege-bingo/2942662/?amp


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Anonymous wrote:A bill that would prohibit Florida's public schools and private businesses from making people feel "discomfort" or "guilt" based on their race, sex or national origin received first approval Tuesday by the state's Senate Education Committee... so... if it passes, I won't be called a "chinito"??
I'M ALL IN!!!

"chinito" es un gesto cariñoso (-_-)

Anonymous wrote:Lol with all the benefits, free stuff, and general bootlicking the military receives, anyone who doesn't think they're privileged is a joke.

There's a difference between a military member and a "military kid". The bingo sheet referred to "military kids".

"On the negative side, studies show that some former military brats struggle to develop and maintain deep, lasting relationships, and can feel like outsiders to U.S. civilian culture.[2] The transitory lifestyle can hinder potential for constructing concrete relationships with people and developing emotional attachments to specific places,[1][2] as can the stresses of having a parent deployed to a war zone and also the psychological aftermath of war in dealing with returning veteran parents.[1][2] In some cases there is also the loss of a parent in combat, or a drastic change in a parent due to a combat related disability.[2] A military brat may personally know another child or teenager, or even a few other peers, whose parents have become war casualties (wounded or killed). A significant minority of ex-military brats may exhibit symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder, avoidant personality disorder, separation anxiety disorder, etc.[12]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_brat_(U.S._subculture)#:~:text=A%20military%20brat%20may%20personally,%2C%20separation%20anxiety%20disorder%2C%20etc.

I can't decide how much of this is intentionally false outrage and how much is true simplemindedness.

Lol with all the benefits, free stuff, and general bootlicking the military receives, anyone who doesn't think they're privileged is a joke.

Trigger warning for sexual violence.

I'm so tired of crap like this. I can mark off almost every square. I grew up UMC, had my own room, went to an elite boarding school, etc. But guess what. My parents constantly fought and are incredibly toxic, abusive, controlling people. I was bullied starting in elementary school and it continued until I went to college. At that "wonderful" high school I went to, I was treated like crap by the teachers, sexually harassed by a coach, threatened with violence by a different coach/teacher, constantly sexually harassed by other students, and finally stalked and violently raped by the student manager of one of those teams. I have severe PTSD and it's had far-reaching impacts on my life. So no, I am not magically privileged just because I'm a white college grad.

Anonymous wrote:A bill that would prohibit Florida's public schools and private businesses from making people feel "discomfort" or "guilt" based on their race, sex or national origin received first approval Tuesday by the state's Senate Education Committee... so... if it passes, I won't be called a "chinito"??
I'M ALL IN!!!

I haven’t read the bill but if it has “feelings” heavily in its language then it has the same fatal flaw as the “One Fairfax” policy on “equity.” That one has “feelings” all up in it too.

How about some old fashioned American language about not discriminating on sex and race in programs and instruction?

A bill that would prohibit Florida's public schools and private businesses from making people feel "discomfort" or "guilt" based on their race, sex or national origin received first approval Tuesday by the state's Senate Education Committee... so... if it passes, I won't be called a "chinito"??
I'M ALL IN!!!

OP here.

Who cares about the source? The story is the activity, not the bias loaded in the article. The source reported an event and was corroborated by FCPS twitter. Some sources dont cover the events, which is why you need multiple sources to get all the events so that one can do some critical thinking. Critical thinking isnt valuable without knowing what’s going on in the first place.

The only reason people attack the source is to deflect away from the event.

If you aren’t getting info from HuffPO, NYT, NYP, or a federalist, you are probably missing something.

Anonymous wrote:Most of that has little to do with race. What's the problem with having kids acknowledge they have benefits if they are mainstream (rae/religion etc) , not disabled, have some space and money and privacy, and so on.

Talk about fragile. " I don't want my kid to believe their lives may be even a littles easier than someone else's."

I think it's the kind of things that kids learn anyway by living the life and observing things around them. Trust me, they do become aware of the inequalities in our society quickly. What exactly is the purpose of these "excercises", what do they want kids to learn they aren't capable of learning from their surroundings and from so much time spent on the internet?

Daily Wire is doing pretty well.

Ironically, liberal dem school boards and their shenanigans the past two years have contributed to that growth, as have the so-called credible outlets that either ignored, excused, or tried to paper over their misdeeds.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t know that the story is real — I need people to stop posting things from daily wire and daily mail and others. Regarding “privilege” — I know that military families are vaunted and valued in American society. There is a military families recognition (day, week— I am not sure). There are special offers and discounts for military families at venues and for products. There are scholarship and college admission benefits. I don’t see that treatment for police offer families or firefighter families.

Someone asked for FCPS response:

There is a quote from FCPS here:
https://www.dailywire.com/news/fairfax-schools-tell-children-of-military-members-that-they-have-privilege

Just because you don't like the source, does not make it a false story.
It ought to teach you that there IS a double standard in MSM reporting. The bias is shown in what they choose not to report. This is a real story. And, this is why people turn to conservative media--otherwise you only get one side of the story.

I read WAPO cover to cover every day--not so much the sports page. WAPO has reported nothing about the troubling--and racist--texts between Pekarsky and Omeish. That is just one example--but, had Schultz made racist statements as they did, it certainly would have been reported. That is why I read conservative media. You need to broaden your sources.

We don’t like the source because it’s not reliable and has a crazy bias.

Straight up propaganda.

Hard pass.

Is there anything factually incorrect in that link from the daily wire or sensationalistic asides from the link at the bottom of the screen?

It's mostly the same quotes readily found from other politicians or FCPS employees.

You tell us. Go back and objectively read the Daily Wire and Federalist pieces and report back. If you can be objective.

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I see most of it supported by the various Tweets or quotes, though I don't see the direct relevance of the paragraph discussing Omeish, other than implying she has something to do with it. The statements about military families mirror comments made here that the significant challenges for military family members don't appear to support the idea of military priviledge. They did not provide data to support the statement that some military connected families did not turn in their forms so that FCPS gets federal dollars, but it sounds plausible given discussions on DCUM.

I believe the links to other stories on there are sensationalistic though such as "Related: Meet The Seattle Schools Woke Indoctrination Czar Who Married A Child Molester".

Thanks. I’ll provide my objective analysis when I get the chance.