N has not been appropriate for decades! It has had a resurgence because (I don't even know what is appropriate to insert here) black kids call each other and their non black friends "N" as a term of endearment. It's used in rap, hip hop etc.

My grandparents, parents, DH, myself and my kid never, ever used this word.

It would be wonderful to know what people prefer to be called. Black seems universal. White is not an issue for whites. Some use brown when referring to themselves. Yet POC isn't universal though many blacks refer to themselves as POC. AA isnt universal if POCs are not African descendants . Yet no one wants to use the skin color wheel.

With all due respect and in no prioritized order:
Black
Brown
Asian
White
Mixed
And rainbow just for fun for all the unicorns out there? Please have a sense of humor

Please state your preference if these are not appropriate.

Anonymous wrote:MCPS shouldn't be the speech police. Kids will be kids. This happens everywhere. People just like to talk about elite schools because they're jealous.

ugh

MCPS shouldn't be the speech police. Kids will be kids. This happens everywhere. People just like to talk about elite schools because they're jealous.

I expect the students who posted pictures of themselves in blackface and used the N-word to describe the images will receive significant consequences, and they shall, because it is their personal responsibility that is the issue despite their defenders attempts to deflect accountability with victimology subterfuge.

+1

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Anonymous wrote:so Y’all are essentially saying NOT to judge blacks by the content of their character because their character is a victim of [institutional racism].

It is not them underperforming in school, involved in petty or violent crimes, children out of wedlock, denigrating women and cursing in hip hop. It is not them, that is all due to [racism].

I honestly don’t see an endgame here.

Just out of curiosity...If I'm black and I did not under-perform in school nor was I ever involved in any petty or violent crime nor was I nor my children born out of wedlock nor do I denigrate women and prefer jazz to hip hop am I still allowed to have strong opinions about systemic racism and white privilege?

You flip the switch depending on who you’re hanging out with. Just like I have to. You’re torn. Your kids are likely in private school if you have the extra income or wealth.

I’m more curious how you balance personal responsibility with your opinions on “systemic racism and white privilege.”

You're not familiar with sarcasm are you?

How do you balance it again? Regardless of whatever you want to label yourself.

Well as far as personal responsibility goes I strive to be a good person a good parent and a good professional, simple as that.
And as far as systemic racism and white privilege goes I don't live in a bubble of delusion and denial about the deep roots of racism and discrimination in this country and I don't think that they magically disappeared in 1963 when Dr. King gave his "I Have A Dream" speech, simple as that.

See, you can be a good parent and good professional and still live a life of victim-hood.

You’re mistaken. My awareness of the realities and ramifications of racism is what keeps me from being a victim because I stand up and speak out and see to it that any attempts to dehumanize me or disrespect me or discriminate against me are identified and addressed. L

How do you balance personal responsibility versus victimhood in others or expectations of others? Do you expect AAs to be able to be proficient in reading or math? If not, why?

I expect the students who posted pictures of themselves in blackface and used the N-word to describe the images will receive significant consequences, and they shall, because it is their personal responsibility that is the issue despite their defenders attempts to deflect accountability with victimology subterfuge.

Anonymous wrote:So early on in my kids elementary school education, DC's writing journal was vandalized by a kid that was never punished. He scribbled over all my kids stories and wrote Pink face pink face f*** you pink face. All throughout the journal. School did nothing. It turns out only white people can be racist.

That story is of no interest to this particular demographic. One ideology rules here, ok.

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Anonymous wrote:Here are the rules. Black kid to Black Kid ok. The rest don't say it

These are the old person, completely out of touch with kids today rules. If you think that black kids are the only ones "allowed" to use the word, you are truly clueless.

Regardless, it's a low class word. I don't recall any successful people who used that word.

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Anonymous wrote:so Y’all are essentially saying NOT to judge blacks by the content of their character because their character is a victim of [institutional racism].

It is not them underperforming in school, involved in petty or violent crimes, children out of wedlock, denigrating women and cursing in hip hop. It is not them, that is all due to [racism].

I honestly don’t see an endgame here.

I am certainly not one of those saying that.

Whoever is "underperforming in school, involved in petty or violent crimes, children out of wedlock, denigrating women and cursing in hip hop" should be hold responsible as an individual.
If you show statistics that can suggest there are more white/blacks doing that, that is ok. But that shows nothing other than the stats along.

Good. So we all agree. Judge individuals on their character, actions, words, behavior.

+1.

So sad to see so many Dems don't do that -- racists back then, racists today.

+1000
And worse, the Dems keep lowering the bar, lowering the expectations, lowering the very class of people they claim they want to "help"

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Anonymous wrote:so Y’all are essentially saying NOT to judge blacks by the content of their character because their character is a victim of [institutional racism].

It is not them underperforming in school, involved in petty or violent crimes, children out of wedlock, denigrating women and cursing in hip hop. It is not them, that is all due to [racism].

I honestly don’t see an endgame here.

I am certainly not one of those saying that.

Whoever is "underperforming in school, involved in petty or violent crimes, children out of wedlock, denigrating women and cursing in hip hop" should be hold responsible as an individual.
If you show statistics that can suggest there are more white/blacks doing that, that is ok. But that shows nothing other than the stats along.

Good. So we all agree. Judge individuals on their character, actions, words, behavior.

+1.

So sad to see so many Dems don't do that -- racists back then, racists today.

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Anonymous wrote:so Y’all are essentially saying NOT to judge blacks by the content of their character because their character is a victim of [institutional racism].

It is not them underperforming in school, involved in petty or violent crimes, children out of wedlock, denigrating women and cursing in hip hop. It is not them, that is all due to [racism].

I honestly don’t see an endgame here.

Just out of curiosity...If I'm black and I did not under-perform in school nor was I ever involved in any petty or violent crime nor was I nor my children born out of wedlock nor do I denigrate women and prefer jazz to hip hop am I still allowed to have strong opinions about systemic racism and white privilege?

You flip the switch depending on who you’re hanging out with. Just like I have to. You’re torn. Your kids are likely in private school if you have the extra income or wealth.

I’m more curious how you balance personal responsibility with your opinions on “systemic racism and white privilege.”

You're not familiar with sarcasm are you?

How do you balance it again? Regardless of whatever you want to label yourself.

Well as far as personal responsibility goes I strive to be a good person a good parent and a good professional, simple as that.
And as far as systemic racism and white privilege goes I don't live in a bubble of delusion and denial about the deep roots of racism and discrimination in this country and I don't think that they magically disappeared in 1963 when Dr. King gave his "I Have A Dream" speech, simple as that.

See, you can be a good parent and good professional and still live a life of victim-hood.

You’re mistaken. My awareness of the realities and ramifications of racism is what keeps me from being a victim because I stand up and speak out and see to it that any attempts to dehumanize me or disrespect me or discriminate against me are identified and addressed. L

How do you balance personal responsibility versus victimhood in others or expectations of others? Do you expect AAs to be able to be proficient in reading or math? If not, why?

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Anonymous wrote:As someone who’s part of pyle, I second the idea that the issue is lack of community. There’s just tons of people everywhere, and not a lot of bringing people together. The whole idea of teaming is meaningless if you don’t even end up in classes with the same kids anyway. And there’s so much unkindness. In addition to racism and antisemitism, the kids get away with a lot of homophobia, most of which is under the surface but kids see it. I think Nardi probably cares but has no idea what to do, is overwhelmed by the size of the school and probably feels unsupported by his teachers, who don’t have many nice things to say about him.

agree, they need a ability tracking plus a pod system asap. my kid has 30 different kids in each of her 7 or 8 classes and then each class is 1/3 high/lo/average ability. makes for a mess for teaching, learning and finding good friends. everyone seems to resort to their ES friends at lunch.

What’s a pod system?

Hey MCPS central people —please take note of the above quote, take a look at what some of Pyle’s recent graduates are doing on social media these days, and give the guy some help. How many years are you going to ignore the fact that Pyle is lacking in...so much. Time for changes.

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Anonymous wrote:so Y’all are essentially saying NOT to judge blacks by the content of their character because their character is a victim of [institutional racism].

It is not them underperforming in school, involved in petty or violent crimes, children out of wedlock, denigrating women and cursing in hip hop. It is not them, that is all due to [racism].

I honestly don’t see an endgame here.

Just out of curiosity...If I'm black and I did not under-perform in school nor was I ever involved in any petty or violent crime nor was I nor my children born out of wedlock nor do I denigrate women and prefer jazz to hip hop am I still allowed to have strong opinions about systemic racism and white privilege?

You flip the switch depending on who you’re hanging out with. Just like I have to. You’re torn. Your kids are likely in private school if you have the extra income or wealth.

I’m more curious how you balance personal responsibility with your opinions on “systemic racism and white privilege.”

You're not familiar with sarcasm are you?

How do you balance it again? Regardless of whatever you want to label yourself.

Well as far as personal responsibility goes I strive to be a good person a good parent and a good professional, simple as that.
And as far as systemic racism and white privilege goes I don't live in a bubble of delusion and denial about the deep roots of racism and discrimination in this country and I don't think that they magically disappeared in 1963 when Dr. King gave his "I Have A Dream" speech, simple as that.

See, you can be a good parent and good professional and still live a life of victim-hood.

You’re mistaken. My awareness of the realities and ramifications of racism is what keeps me from being a victim because I stand up and speak out and see to it that any attempts to dehumanize me or disrespect me or discriminate against me are identified and addressed. L

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:so Y’all are essentially saying NOT to judge blacks by the content of their character because their character is a victim of [institutional racism].

It is not them underperforming in school, involved in petty or violent crimes, children out of wedlock, denigrating women and cursing in hip hop. It is not them, that is all due to [racism].

I honestly don’t see an endgame here.

Just out of curiosity...If I'm black and I did not under-perform in school nor was I ever involved in any petty or violent crime nor was I nor my children born out of wedlock nor do I denigrate women and prefer jazz to hip hop am I still allowed to have strong opinions about systemic racism and white privilege?

You flip the switch depending on who you’re hanging out with. Just like I have to. You’re torn. Your kids are likely in private school if you have the extra income or wealth.

I’m more curious how you balance personal responsibility with your opinions on “systemic racism and white privilege.”

You're not familiar with sarcasm are you?

How do you balance it again? Regardless of whatever you want to label yourself.

Well as far as personal responsibility goes I strive to be a good person a good parent and a good professional, simple as that.
And as far as systemic racism and white privilege goes I don't live in a bubble of delusion and denial about the deep roots of racism and discrimination in this country and I don't think that they magically disappeared in 1963 when Dr. King gave his "I Have A Dream" speech, simple as that.

See, you can be a good parent and good professional and still live a life of victim-hood.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:so Y’all are essentially saying NOT to judge blacks by the content of their character because their character is a victim of [institutional racism].

It is not them underperforming in school, involved in petty or violent crimes, children out of wedlock, denigrating women and cursing in hip hop. It is not them, that is all due to [racism].

I honestly don’t see an endgame here.

Just out of curiosity...If I'm black and I did not under-perform in school nor was I ever involved in any petty or violent crime nor was I nor my children born out of wedlock nor do I denigrate women and prefer jazz to hip hop am I still allowed to have strong opinions about systemic racism and white privilege?

You flip the switch depending on who you’re hanging out with. Just like I have to. You’re torn. Your kids are likely in private school if you have the extra income or wealth.

I’m more curious how you balance personal responsibility with your opinions on “systemic racism and white privilege.”

You're not familiar with sarcasm are you?

How do you balance it again? Regardless of whatever you want to label yourself.

Well as far as personal responsibility goes I strive to be a good person a good parent and a good professional, simple as that.
And as far as systemic racism and white privilege goes I don't live in a bubble of delusion and denial about the deep roots of racism and discrimination in this country and I don't think that they magically disappeared in 1963 when Dr. King gave his "I Have A Dream" speech, simple as that.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:so Y’all are essentially saying NOT to judge blacks by the content of their character because their character is a victim of [institutional racism].

It is not them underperforming in school, involved in petty or violent crimes, children out of wedlock, denigrating women and cursing in hip hop. It is not them, that is all due to [racism].

I honestly don’t see an endgame here.

I am certainly not one of those saying that.

Whoever is "underperforming in school, involved in petty or violent crimes, children out of wedlock, denigrating women and cursing in hip hop" should be hold responsible as an individual.
If you show statistics that can suggest there are more white/blacks doing that, that is ok. But that shows nothing other than the stats along.

Good. So we all agree. Judge individuals on their character, actions, words, behavior.

We do. But some don't.

I do. But I don’t take a poorly perming individual and project that onto their whole neighborhood or race. likewise I don’t take one kids derogatory text message and project that on to a whole neighborhood, school or race.
What about you?