Posted on 10/20/2016 6:14:50 AM PDT by simpson96
About 2,000 Seattle educators wore Black Lives Matter shirts at their schools Wednesday to call for racial equity in education.
Schools across the district held “Black Lives Matter at School” rallies before classes began for the day. Students, parents and teachers also wore stickers and buttons emblazoned with the “Black Lives Matter” slogan.
The purpose of the day was to affirm that “black lives matter in the public schools,” according to organizers, who are members of Social Equality Educators, a group of educators within the Seattle teachers union. Teachers also wanted to show their support for John Muir Elementary, which had its “Black Men Uniting to Change the Narrative” event canceled last month after receiving a threat over teachers’ plans to wear Black Lives Matter shirts.
Before school started Wednesday at Chief Sealth International High School, dozens of educators and students gathered outside the building and held up banners and signs.
About 60 Chief Sealth educators had ordered the shirts beforehand. Some of the shirts said “Black Lives Matter” and “#sayhername,” a reference to Sandra Bland, a black woman who died in police custody in Texas. Those shirts had an image of a fist. Others wore shirts that said “Black Lives Matter” and “We Stand Together” with an image of a tree.
Teacher Diana Romero said she decided to wear a shirt “to support our black brothers and sisters in support for justice.” As a Latina, she said she has seen firsthand the unfair treatment of people of color by police officers.
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Indoctrination
Yep. That'll work.
public schools
An aquaintence told me what we already know that the schools are telling the kids hillary is a wonderful person.
Trump is racist and hastes women.
Now the tards here are screaming. But they can becuase the place is run by commmies profiting by capitalism.
OH!@
Fire them all immediately.
Suspend the lot of them!
Funny, I thought that was what the 50's and 60's were all about. I was raised in Mississippi, just a few miles from Oxford and Ole Miss.....................
On the bright side (I’m living in Seattle, sadly) the comments on the article even in this People’s Democratic Republic are overwhelmingly disapproving of the teachers. :)
PRAY for the minds and souls of children in the public school systems. We need Divine intervene in education.
I’d be getting out if I lived there.
Did Seattle taxpayers pay for the shirts?
Aaaaand not one of them black.
Tools.
As I often say, the three biggest contributors to the dumbing down of America:
1. pop culture
2. media
3. the fake education system
Can a teacher wear a NRA t-shirt?
Seattle proper in 2010 had a total population of 608,660. Of that, Black or African American was 7.9% of the total, or 48,084. 15.6% of the total population was under 18. So, if the percentages were roughly accurate, there'd be 7,501 black students (15.6% of 48,084) in Seattle's schools.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Seattle
The numbers get fuzzier when two or more races are involved (5.6% of total population - but no breakdown on those mixes).
“About 2,000 Seattle educators wore Black Lives Matter shirts at their schools Wednesday to call for racial equity in education.”
What does this even mean? Are they going to make the black kids study more? No, that would be ‘acting white’. Can’t have that. Can’t have charter schools, either. No, this means nothing.
Agreed, these people condone the killing of police officers and whites. All of these teachers should be absolutely fired with zero severance ..
Fire all of them. Then they can wear “Employment Matters” and “College Majors Matters”.
This is why we need a President who has no idea how “things are supposed to work”....The whole f’in’ system needs to be DESTROYED and rebuilt.
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