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Elite K-8 school teaches white students they’re born racist | New York PostAn elite Manhattan school is teaching white students as young as 6 that they’re born racist and should feel guilty benefiting from “white privilege,” while heaping praise and cupcakes on their black peers.Administrators at the Bank Street School for Children on the Upper West Side claim it’s a novel approach to fighting discrimination, and that several other private New York schools are doing it, but even liberal parents aren’t buying it.
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They complain the K-8 school of 430 kids is separating whites in classes where they’re made to feel awful about their “whiteness,” and all the “kids of color” in other rooms where they’re taught to feel proud about their race and are rewarded with treats and other privileges.
Elite K-8 school teaches white students they’re born racist | New York Post
The insanity of this **** is getting out of ****ing hand.
How do you fight racism? You teach every kid, that were all the same. We're all flesh and blood, we're all God's children, we're all people. So what if Jermaine has dark skin and Bobby is white? Who cares? You guys like playing tag, go play tag.
That's all that you need to do.
/smh
I don't have the time to look into it now, but I'd bet good money that this is just another BS rightwing drama-queening thread from Renae
I don't have the time to look into it now, but I'd bet good money that this is just another BS rightwing drama-queening thread from Renae
Elite K-8 school teaches white students they’re born racist | New York Post
The insanity of this **** is getting out of ****ing hand.
How do you fight racism? You teach every kid, that were all the same. We're all flesh and blood, we're all God's children, we're all people. So what if Jermaine has dark skin and Bobby is white? Who cares? You guys like playing tag, go play tag.
That's all that you need to do.
/smh
Nope, this is a real school and it's just as wacky as the OP describes.
New York Post is a tabloid.
Elite K-8 school teaches white students they’re born racist | New York Post
The insanity of this **** is getting out of ****ing hand.
How do you fight racism? You teach every kid, that were all the same. We're all flesh and blood, we're all God's children, we're all people. So what if Jermaine has dark skin and Bobby is white? Who cares? You guys like playing tag, go play tag.
That's all that you need to do.
/smh
It's published in tabloid format, but so what? Has it published facts about the Bank Street School? Do you dispute what are its reported facts? If you dispute them, then why haven't you provided evidence that the NY Post has misrepresented the facts rather than simply shooting the messenger here?
The NY post doesn't really provide any evidence itself. It provides a ton of half quotes, and anonymous sources. If evidence is what we're going by, there isn't much to start with in the tabloid provided by the OP.
I don't have the time to look into it now, but I'd bet good money that this is just another BS rightwing drama-queening thread from Renae
I'm not sure what a "half quote" is. The article quotes parents who, understandably, want to remain anonymous, but it also references school presentation slides. Have you seen them? From the article:
Bank Street has created a “dedicated space” in the school for “kids of color,” where they’re “embraced” by minority instructors and encouraged to “voice their feelings” and “share experiences about being a kid of color,” according to school presentation slides obtained by The Post. ...The same slides point out that a number of leading private schools across the country also have segregated students by “race-based affinity groups.” It lists several in New York, including Riverdale Country School, Brooklyn Friends School, The Cathedral School, The Calhoun School, Ethical Culture Fieldston School, and Little Red School House and Elisabeth Irwin High School."
News outlets other than the NY Post have begun to pick up on this story. Perhaps you have insider information not available to me or others, and if so, I hope you'll share it. Perhaps the school will release a statement or evidence will be presented that the NY Post is being dishonest in some way.
Until then, I haven't seen a reason to shoot the messenger.
man, i really hope this isn't real.
me too.
THANK YOU.
If someone finds this story is bunk, ACES. If someone can prove the NY Post is making mountain out of mole hill, ACES. As presented it's stupid.
Renae, I've got something to share with you. It's a bit off-topic, but whatever.
This week I've been working with a Violence Prevention Counselor at a resale/women's center, and she told me something that made my jaw drop straight to the ground.
So a few years back she was teaching a diversity class, but she ended up losing the positon. You want to know why? Get this: it's because she was white, and some students were offended that a white person was teaching a diversity class.
The NY post doesn't really provide any evidence itself. It provides a ton of half quotes, and anonymous sources. If evidence is what we're going by, there isn't much to start with in the tabloid provided by the OP.
I'm not sure what a "half quote" is.
The article quotes parents who, understandably, want to remain anonymous, but it also references school presentation slides. Have you seen them? From the article:
Bank Street has created a “dedicated space” in the school for “kids of color,” where they’re “embraced” by minority instructors and encouraged to “voice their feelings” and “share experiences about being a kid of color,” according to school presentation slides obtained by The Post. ...The same slides point out that a number of leading private schools across the country also have segregated students by “race-based affinity groups.” It lists several in New York, including Riverdale Country School, Brooklyn Friends School, The Cathedral School, The Calhoun School, Ethical Culture Fieldston School, and Little Red School House and Elisabeth Irwin High School.
News outlets other than the NY Post have begun to pick up on this story. Perhaps you have insider information not available to me or others, and if so, I hope you'll share it. Perhaps the school will release a statement or evidence will be presented that the NY Post is being dishonest in some way.
Until then, I haven't seen a reason to shoot the messenger.
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