From: The Organic Prepper
by Daisy Luther
You know, people have had about enough
of all of this racist garbage. It’s time to put a stop to
language that excludes others. Take the mention of peanut
butter and jelly sandwiches for example.
One school administrator began the
school year cracking down on exclusive language. Verenice
Gutierrez, principal of Harvey Scott K-8 School in Portland, Oregon,
hears subtle racism every day. And that’s just plain wrong.
She explained to the Portland Tribune in September how a simple
example of a peanut butter and jelly sandwich in a classroom
indicated “white privilege”.
“What about Somali or Hispanic
students, who might not eat sandwiches? Another way would be to
say: ‘Americans eat peanut butter and jelly, do you have anything
like that?’ Let them tell you. Maybe they eat torta. Or pita.”
(source)
There was no mention in the article
whether the teacher was talking about sandwiches on white bread or
whole wheat bread.
Guttierrez , along with the other
principals in Portland, are part of a district-wide initiative to
examine the lack of racial equity in the school system. The
program is called Courageous Conversations.
Through intensive staff trainings,
frequent staff meetings, classroom observations and other
initiatives, the premise is that if educators can understand their
own “white privilege,” then they can change their teaching
practices to boost minority students’ performance.
Last Wednesday, the first day of the
school year for staff, for example, the first item of business for
teachers at Scott School was to have a Courageous Conversation — to
examine a news article and discuss the “white privilege” it
conveys.
Like many if not all of PPS’ leaders,
Gutierrez has gone through California-based consultant Glenn
Singleton’s “Coaching for Educational Equity,” a weeklong
seminar on race and how it affects life; she’s also become an
“affiliate,” certified to teach the equity curriculum; and she
serves on the district’s administrative committee to address
systematic racism, a group that meets every other week.
“Our focus school and our
Superintendent’s mandate that we improve education for students of
color, particularly Black and Brown boys, will provide us with many
opportunities to use the protocols of Courageous Conversations in
data teams, team meetings, staff meetings, and conversations amongst
one another,” Guitierrez’ letter to staff reads. (source)
The program is based on a book by Glenn
E. Singleton: Courageous Conversations About Race: A Field Guide
for Achieving Equity in Schools. This example of political
correctness run amok is racing across the country (oops – can I say
racing or is that racist?) in the form of “summits” for
educators. According to the St. Louis summit website, it’s
subtle racism that is causing a disparity between white kids and
non-white kids.
Posted by: Daisy Luther
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