Posted on 03/12/2013 4:25:56 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
The Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction runs several programs that heavily emphasize racial issues in public schools.
Some feel that one of those programs – an Americorps operation called VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America) – may go a bit overboard by encouraging white students to wear a white wristband “as a reminder about your (white) privilege.”
Geared towards high school students, the program “seeks to build capacity in schools and districts serving low-income families to develop an effective, sustainable, research-based program of family-school-community partnerships,” according to its Facebook page.
That sounds reasonable enough.
But the program’s approach becomes a bit suspect when one reads the Gloria Steinem quote on the top of its webpage: “The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.”
The webpage also offers a series of suggestions for high schools students to become more racially sensitive. They include:
Wear a white wristband as a reminder about your privilege, and as a personal commitment to explain why you wear the wristband.
Set aside sections of the day to critically examine how privilege is working.
Put a note on your mirror or computer screen as a reminder to think about privilege.
The Wisconsin DPI also sponsors several similar programs, including CREATE Wisconsin, an on-going “cultural sensitivity” teacher training program which focuses largely on “whiteness” and “white privilege.”
EAGnews will be exposing more about that program in a film documentary titled, “RE-CREATING AMERICA: Cultural Sensitivity in Wisconsin Schools,” along with a two-day written series on the same topic, beginning Monday.
Will DPI’s obsession with race and “white privilege” actually translate into better educational outcomes for all students? Not likely.
But it will continue to divide the state by race and income status, and allow bureaucrats to make a case for more government funding so they can create a different type of America.
Wisconsin taxpayers really ought to be paying more attention to how their education dollars are spent.
More racism branded as a cure for racism.
The antidote. Now available here in Louisiana.
http://www.connectionsacademy.com/louisiana-school/home.aspx
It’s just inviting anti-establishment kids to lead the way against this act of stupidity.
Those scumbags need to be arrested.
Does this mean the poor childruns trapped in Milwaukee public schools get to wear “Black Privilege” wristbands ? Wut ?
Others could take the term privilege as a positive term, rather than the negative one that the liberals are trying to force-feed them here. Unintended Consequences, and all that.
What’s next? A yellow Magen David for the Jewish students?
The “public school”, including the “charter school”, is BY FAR, the largest, most expensive, most subversive, and most destructive entitlement program in the country.
The “public school” is better understood as the “government school collective”.
It is silly to imagine that you can fix the public schools, because the very concept itself is collectivist.
It is hypocritical to submit your children to an authority with whom you fundamentally disagree. Children do not trust hypocrites, so this will undermine your own authority, let alone influence, with your children.
Any child that comes out of the government school collective with their moral compass and common sense intact does so in spite of the government school indoctrination, not because of it.
To understand the content and compass of modern education, see ...
http://www.scribd.com/doc/54400125/Change-Agents-in-the-Schools-Barbara-Morris-1979
If you want to win the culture war, have lots of children (see my tagline) and homeschool them or form your own school cooperative with your church or synagogue and like-minded friends and relatives.
Nobody loves your children more than you do.
Nobody can teach your children better than you can.
Nobody knows your children better than you do.
Your children would love nothing better than to be taught by you, if you start doing so before they are corrupted by the government school collective.
If you have children, make whatever sacrifices you must to get them out of the public schools.
DO NOT FEED THE BEAST!
Especially not with your own children.
And DO NOT TAKE GOVERNMENT “EDUCATION” MONEY!
He that pays the piper calls the tune, and that’s especially true for any government entitlement program.
I thought the goal was to become a color blind society.
So how do we achieve that goal by continually shoving racial differences in everyone’s face.
Set aside sections of the day to critically examine how privilege is working.
Do you think they will bring up how privileged minorities are advantaged with racial quotas in universities or how privileged minorities get lowered cut off scores on many public service job exams?
“Set aside sections of the day to critically examine how privilege is working.
Put a note on your mirror or computer screen as a reminder to think about privilege.”.........
When I grew up we EARNED privileges, we didn’t automatically assume them. That IMO, seems to be the problem with having to identify yourself from someone who has been handed privilege without having to earn them.
The Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction runs several programs that heavily emphasize racial issues in public schools.
So what? So did George Wallace.
So should we require the affirmative-action eligible to similarly wear a wristband to remind them of their privilege?
Whites are becoming the Jews of the Nazi era.
Exactly.Puts me in mind of the Germans' outlawing Christian homeschooling. Which is mandatory state indoctrination, branded as a prophylactic against Naziism.
At least the white bands are better than rainbow colored.
Schools need to get back to teaching something like “reading, writing and arithmetic”. Might actually produce a better product some day.
Like the privilege of paying most of the taxes? That privilege?
Why are parents putting up with this crap? There is no way I would sit sliently while a school attempted this. Parents need to take their schools back.
Affirmative Action is Black Privilege, break out the wristbands.
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