White Privilege Conference (Seattle School District sending students from 4 high schools)

Seattle Public Schools ^ | April 5, 2007

[Stoat]

Equity and Race Relations

White Privilege Conference

For the first time, Seattle Public Schools are sending students from four high schools to attend the annual White Privilege Conference, sponsored by the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, the University of Denver, Teaching Tolerance, Study Circles Resource Center, The Matrix, Center for Judaic Studies, GLSEN, and many more organizations. Speakers include Geneva Gay, Peggy McIntosh, Joy Leary, John-Paul Chaisson-Cardenas and many others who are actively engaged in anti-racism.

This year's conference takes place in Colorado Springs from April 18th through the 21st. There are workshops designed specifically for youth, as well as sessions open to all conference participants. We are very excited about this opportunity for students and teachers to grow and learn together at an intense 3-day conference. In support of increasing student voice related to school reform and equity, funding for students to attend the WPC is provided through the small learning communities grant.

From their website:
" The annual White Privilege Conference (WPC) serves as a yearly opportunity to examine and explore difficult issues related to white privilege, white supremacy and oppression. WPC provides a forum for critical discussions about diversity, multicultural education and leadership, social justice, race/racism, sexual orientation, gender relations, religion and other systems of privilege/oppression. WPC is recognized as a challenging, empowering and educational experience. The workshops, keynotes and institutes not only inform participants, but engage and challenge them, while providing practical tips and strategies for combating inequality.

"The conference participants and presenters include corporate and non-profit community members, students, educators, activists, musicians and artists. This conference is not about beating up on white folks. This conference is about critically examining the society in which we live and working to dismantle systems of power, prejudice, privilege and oppression."

 

For participants:

Expectations

Follow-up Activities

Chaperone Contacts: Ray Williams, Ilsa Govan

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White Privilege Conference
Seattle Public Schools Participant Expectations

WPC8

WPC8 will focus on issues of privilege and oppression related to youth. WPC8 keynotes, institutes, and workshop sessions will provide information, practical tools and strategies to assist both youth and adults. The sessions will be challenging and practical.

GOALS

1. To educate youth and people who work with youth about issues of privilege.
    
2. To support and develop youth leadership for social and economic justice.
    
3. To challenge adults to listen and learn from youth.
    
4. To provide real life information and stories of effective programs/leaders providing positive options and results in the lives of youth.

EXPECTATIONS

We are sending students to this conference with the expectation that they will apply what they learn to their school setting in Seattle. Throughout the conference we have scheduled specific check-in times to debrief what we are learning.

Following the conference, students are expected to attend a workshop to discuss how to apply what they learned to projects in their schools on:
Tuesday, April 24th from 6-8pm, location TBD

Additional meetings for project planning and implementing will be set by each school group independently.

In the spring, students from all of the schools will again meet to share what they’ve accomplished at an Equity Summit.

 

[IslandJeff]

Upon return, if her eyes are glazed, her speech patterns stilted or she wants to put what appear to be large organic 'pods' in your car or your bedroom, then you will know that her will was broken and she has Crossed Over to the Dark Side.

That time passed years ago, FRiend, lost to the Prevailing Prevarication Formerly Known As American Culture. Undergraduate-teaching victimology associate professor, with eyes and ears that only hear the incessant drumbeat of "injustice", and works with "ethnic" worshiping fellowships, who, of course are only identified by ethnicity. A true and horribly-ironic disservice, if you ask this oppressive capitalist.

Can't wait to get the hell out of here, in spite of the great normal folks that should prevail, but are too busy with mundane things like working for better unaccountable lives.

[arthurus]

The majority in this country is sliding right into dhimmitude and the masters are not even Mohammedan. Not yet.

[oblomov]

I counted 30. Many common words (”inform”, “engage”, “difficult”, “critical”, etc.) are used by the left to signify something very specific that differs from the usual definition.

[oblomov]

This means if I choose not to go to work for the next month the bill collectors will never call and the bank will just send me my mortgate slip free and clear?

Sure, just pull the money out of your "invisible knapsack".

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

They don’t give up. They energize themselves and crank up the activism. Their ultimate goal is the suppression of “whites” (a proxy for Christians)

[Polyxene]

“Throughout the conference we have scheduled specific check-in times to debrief what we are learning.”

The word that jumped out at me was “DEBRIEF”. If this isn’t indoctrination, I don’t know what is!!
Lord, help us all!!

[Stoat]

Update:

Well, it seems that a full TWENTY TWO DAYS after this broke, Fox News has finally discovered the story and have a video report on it:

http://www.foxnews.com/video2/player06.html?042607/042607_springer_school&FNL&White%20Privilege%3F%20&acc&US&-1&News&135&&&new

 

Welcome on board, Fox.  Better late than never, I suppose. 

 

[Tokra]

One of my favorite songs from the punk rock 70s was "Caucasian Guilt". It featured a young teenage girl screaming the lyrics in front of a pounding beat. Listen to it if you get a chance - I've always found it very funny:

I don’t want to be politically correct
I don’t need no Caucasian guilt

I never cooked no Jew
I never took no Indians land

I never made no black my slave
I never ???? no Latino’s grave

Never made no Chinese build me a railroad
I never put no Jap in a camp

I don’t care if faggots call me a c@nt
I don’t care if they take me out to lunch

I don’t mind high heels on a dyke
Just don’t knock me off my bike, heh

I don't need no Caucasian guilt.

[Stoat]

UPDATE

Seattle Public Schools drops controversial office