Anonymous wrote:This is starting to sound a lot like the "respectibility" arguments that white folks like to employ to keep Black and brown folks from getting too uppity.

If Whitey McInterruptingpants can't handle a few kids wanting to talk to him about why his views are hurtful, maybe he should stay home and watch Sports Center.

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Anonymous wrote:This is starting to sound a lot like the "respectibility" arguments that white folks like to employ to keep Black and brown folks from getting too uppity.

If Whitey McInterruptingpants can't handle a few kids wanting to talk to him about why his views are hurtful, maybe he should stay home and watch Sports Center.

That was my take also after looking at the photo.

My take is it looks confrontational. It's literally one guy sitting down and a mob of students surrounding him. I would be uncomfortable. This too would be uncomfortable in any other situation but people here are making excuses for this ridiculous behavior.

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Look at the man surrounded by 20 students just because he had a different view. Sorry for saying this, but if you start surrounding parents for having different opinions , it will come like being hostile. May not be intention of students, but it looks that way.

Not "just because he had a different view," presumably. But rather because he had the specific view that he had.

Also, whom are you addressing in your post?

Why don't you share whatever he said it so we can see why 20 students are surrounding a man? I am simply going by details in link here. I was addressing the PP who said teens can argue. Well, 2 kids arguing over some point is different than 20 students surrounding some one.

This is what we get by allowing high schoolers to participate. They are eager and vocal and can get carried away.

Allowing? Do you think MCPS should invite community input and then exclude the members of the community who are students?

Perhaps, or the hosts could implement and enforce rules of participation so that the incident doesn't happen again. There are many people who would love to contribute but don't because they are afraid of conflict. The aggressive minority is keeping the majority from expressing their opinions.

Correct but avoiding conflict is different from speaking and getting clobbered verbally social justice warriors.

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Look at the man surrounded by 20 students just because he had a different view. Sorry for saying this, but if you start surrounding parents for having different opinions , it will come like being hostile. May not be intention of students, but it looks that way.

Not "just because he had a different view," presumably. But rather because he had the specific view that he had.

Also, whom are you addressing in your post?

Why don't you share whatever he said it so we can see why 20 students are surrounding a man? I am simply going by details in link here. I was addressing the PP who said teens can argue. Well, 2 kids arguing over some point is different than 20 students surrounding some one.

This is what we get by allowing high schoolers to participate. They are eager and vocal and can get carried away.

Jack smith needs to attend these since he’s always harping about listening g and speaking on an issue while still respecting individuals. Ideas are different than individuals. Explaining a position logically is always different from making demands on your wish list for fuzzy reasons you can’t actually back up.

Have jack smith attend and demand and enforce that people are listening, speaking, being respectful and then moderate such that the best ideas aree strengthened.

Looks like a waste of time and zero listening by the SJWs who hate capitalism, competitions, companies, industries, white collar workers, etc.

Hmmm ... looks like democracy to me.

Anonymous wrote:This is starting to sound a lot like the "respectibility" arguments that white folks like to employ to keep Black and brown folks from getting too uppity.

If Whitey McInterruptingpants can't handle a few kids wanting to talk to him about why his views are hurtful, maybe he should stay home and watch Sports Center.

That was my take also after looking at the photo.

This is starting to sound a lot like the "respectibility" arguments that white folks like to employ to keep Black and brown folks from getting too uppity.

If Whitey McInterruptingpants can't handle a few kids wanting to talk to him about why his views are hurtful, maybe he should stay home and watch Sports Center.

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Look at the man surrounded by 20 students just because he had a different view. Sorry for saying this, but if you start surrounding parents for having different opinions , it will come like being hostile. May not be intention of students, but it looks that way.

Not "just because he had a different view," presumably. But rather because he had the specific view that he had.

Also, whom are you addressing in your post?

Why don't you share whatever he said it so we can see why 20 students are surrounding a man? I am simply going by details in link here. I was addressing the PP who said teens can argue. Well, 2 kids arguing over some point is different than 20 students surrounding some one.

This is what we get by allowing high schoolers to participate. They are eager and vocal and can get carried away.

Allowing? Do you think MCPS should invite community input and then exclude the members of the community who are students?

Surrounding a person for having a different view is not the best way to participate in community input. Man was wrong to talk for a minute because it was not a forum to talk like that, but students were even more wrong to surround him because students didn't like whatever he said.

Some posters indicated that students joined many tables and started arguing. This kind of behavior will simply discourage parent to come and give their input.

Looking at the photo, it doesn't appear that there's an angry mob surrounding him. He's talking to a couple of kids; the rest seem like they're listening or not even paying attention.

I never said angry mob, but there was no reason to have such situations where anyone voicing different opinion get surrounded by students.

Or adults.

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No need to surround anyone.

Well, I've got the Walter Johnson meeting on my calendar now.

-homeowning MCPS parent who supports the boundary analysis

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Look at the man surrounded by 20 students just because he had a different view. Sorry for saying this, but if you start surrounding parents for having different opinions , it will come like being hostile. May not be intention of students, but it looks that way.

Not "just because he had a different view," presumably. But rather because he had the specific view that he had.

Also, whom are you addressing in your post?

Why don't you share whatever he said it so we can see why 20 students are surrounding a man? I am simply going by details in link here. I was addressing the PP who said teens can argue. Well, 2 kids arguing over some point is different than 20 students surrounding some one.

This is what we get by allowing high schoolers to participate. They are eager and vocal and can get carried away.

Allowing? Do you think MCPS should invite community input and then exclude the members of the community who are students?

Surrounding a person for having a different view is not the best way to participate in community input. Man was wrong to talk for a minute because it was not a forum to talk like that, but students were even more wrong to surround him because students didn't like whatever he said.

Some posters indicated that students joined many tables and started arguing. This kind of behavior will simply discourage parent to come and give their input.

Looking at the photo, it doesn't appear that there's an angry mob surrounding him. He's talking to a couple of kids; the rest seem like they're listening or not even paying attention.

I never said angry mob, but there was no reason to have such situations where anyone voicing different opinion get surrounded by students.

Or adults.

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Surrounding a person for having a different view is not the best way to participate in community input. Man was wrong to talk for a minute because it was not a forum to talk like that, but students were even more wrong to surround him because students didn't like whatever he said.

Some posters indicated that students joined many tables and started arguing. This kind of behavior will simply discourage parent to come and give their input.

Ideally, adults who think their views are important and should be heard, won't be scared off by the possibility that some high school students at the meeting will vocally disagree with them.