Posted on 04/27/2007 12:10:27 PM PDT by Sopater
Officials with the federal Department of Education are set to hold a conference call with representatives of the Seattle School District to determine if the district violated the law in sending students to a White Privilege Conference in Colorado this month.
The timing of the district's exchange with the Department of Education hasn't been decided.
A diverse group of 20 students, along with two administrative staff members and at least one teacher, attended the four-day conference, said district spokesman David Tucker.
The conference, sponsored by, among others, the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, serves as an opportunity to "examine and explore difficult issues related to white privilege, white supremacy and oppression," according to its Web site.
To many, the term "white privilege" is part of a philosophy that white people have advantages over people of color, and that white people are insensitive to other cultures.
To pay for travel, lodging and food for students and staff, the district budgeted $10,000, most of which came from a federal education grant called the Smaller Learning Communities program. That program is intended to help create small academies within high schools.
Through Eric Earling, a regional spokesman, the U.S. Department of Education released a statement on Thursday explaining why it was seeking answers from the district about the trip.
"The school district did not indicate that it intended to send students to a White Privilege conference in documents outlining the plans for how the grant funds would be spent ... If we determine that it is not an allowable expense, there are wide range of administrative actions we can take in response," the statement reads.
Tucker said the district would be found in compliance with federal guidelines after the review.
"We do feel the money was used properly," Tucker said.
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White = privilidged = insensitive = BAD
not-white = underprivilidged = sensitive = GOOD
Sounds like racist propaganda to me.
[God] hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation ~ Acts 17:26
Taxpayer supported racism.
hey i saw this on the news. They had some black female student talking about white privelege. Then the journalist reported that she went to a private high school that costs 20k a year...hah!
If it had been a conference sponsored by the NAACP, you wouldn’t be reading this right now...........
“White Privilege” is the latest codeword for “capitalism.”
Oh. I thought it was a white supremacy conference, from the headline.
Mrs VS
You called it right!
This is the Dean that doles out punishement to students of all colors for offenses, real or imagined.
I can only imagine what the national press would do to a dean that had "Start Aparteid Now" and raised white fist stickers on his walls.
Taxpayer-supporter idiocy is more like it.
What kind of a lamebrain would even want their child to attend something so stupid?
WARNING: the contents are very disturbing
He should focus his attention on Saudi Arabia if he wants to look for apartheid and discrimination in the modern world.
Jews cannot enter the country of Saudi Arabia.
Non-muslims cannot enter the cities of Mecca and Medina.
Non-muslims cannot practice their religions in Saudi Arabia.
Non-muslims have fewer rights and protections under the law in SA.
As soon as I quit rolling on the floor laughing over the title “White Privilege Conference” insanity, I may have something to say.
Washington State Ping
This isn’t idiotic, it isn’t funny, it’s evil, the ideology of genocide, and it’s funded by the U.S. Government. A conservatism that doesn’t have anything to say about this is a conservatism that doesn’t have anything to say, period.
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