I agree the selection of students AND subject matter was primarily skin color, yet .. the intent was (as stated) to show black kids THEY could achieve high positions also.
If white kids had gone on the trip as well, the effect of targetting (failing/below average?) black kids would have been lost ... at the least, diluted.
Personally, I don't see why this became controversial in the first place.
I could not disagree with you more.
This is a clear case of Ann Arbor Schools displaying and promoting racism.
How about reflecting on the look on non-black kid’s faces displaying a sense of injustice?
How about reflecting on the empty expression of non-black children being told skin color does not matter except if you are of “color”?
This is just one clear example and is just the tip of the iceburg. Do you think if the “nuanced” educators can openly run this type of segregation and favortism that it stops at field trips.
And this BS has been a part of AAPS for years. It is part of the deeply cultural process of chosen demographic groups by color or gender.
No matter how this is described using educational buzzwords, it is BS.
Huh? The white kids will suck away all the attention and intelligence of the black kids?
“If white kids had gone on the trip as well, the effect of targetting (failing/below average?) black kids would have been lost ... at the least, diluted.”
How does being in a mixed classroom group of white latino and black kids “dilute” the thrill of meeting a black rocket scientist? Was he speaking to them in ebonics?
Now we await the school’s makeup field trip for white kids only... a thrill not to be “diluted’ by including black kids
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I probably wouldn't have a huge issue with it either, except for the hypocrisy of it all.
You don't see why discrimination financed by your tax dollars is not a problem? You don't see why it is ok for Blacks to have priviledges not available to Whites, Hispanics and Asians in the same school?
In today’s dire economic conditions, wouldn’t it be more efficient and cost effective to work on slowing the white kids down instead?
Because you're a frickin' idiot?