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.
Kyle Olson at EAGNews also notes that
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.”
Government schools are sewers. If you love your kids, pull them. By lunchtime today.
If you had kids could you afford to send them to private schools? Some of us just have to work to make what we have better.
ReplyDeleteI love my kids and who they married. 3 are teachers in what tou derisively call sewers. I have 5 grandchildren who will likely go to their local public sewers. You are way off the mark with your exhortation to pull them out of their schools and/or their employment. Of course there are those who think they are better than others in their private schools. To them we let them show their stuff. Go for it!
ReplyDeleteBut I would tell my. Kids to shun the white wrist bands. I finf it difficult to imagine a majority of the parents in Wisconsin going for this. But I know you will keep us updated on the progress of this ridiculous proposal or lack thereof. If you don't, I will. This will never fly.
ReplyDeleteWhere do your kids and kids-in-law stand on diversity indoctrination?
ReplyDeleteI will ask them. My 2 kids and their spouses pretty nmuch think for themselves. All 4 were reared in their respective local public schools. One graduated from Depauw though. But he doesn't have a swelled head like many who matriculate there. I took one of those required multiculturalism courses for teachers. No biggie, really. Just another course. Son in law a math teacher, daughter in law teaches the deaf. Daughter teaches health and phys ed and is the certified athletic trainer.
ReplyDeleteNo biggie? You don't resent having your time wasted?
ReplyDeleteNobody told me what to say, write or think. An easy A. It is a requiired course for the education certification. Wabash College which has been educating teachers for over 150 years even has to offer it. Didn't indoctrinate me one bit. I still think for myself. Surround yourself with independent wealth and thinking if you want. I do. Well, with independent thinkers if not the wealthy who have no more time for me than I do for them. Pretty shitty life, that of a public school teacher,eh? Most private schools pay even more poorly though.
ReplyDeleteThe key phrase in your most recent comment is "has to."
ReplyDeleteSounds like you approached it the way most of the more intelligent and broadly-experienced ed students do: sit there thinking "yeah, yeah, the diversity hustlers are getting in their two cents' worth. I'll just do what is required to get this out of the way with a decent grade."
ReplyDeleteAs I say, a waste of your time. You lost several hours of your mortal life being subjected to utter ding-dong.
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ReplyDeleteMost people in Cuba know that Party leaders' speeches are a load of inconsequential ding-dong, but they know that if they're in a public place and one comes on the telly, they'd better act attentive.
ReplyDeleteWould you again accept the idea of public education in America again if it could and of course would return to some semblance of some golden dayin the past? Actually there is really no looking back, given technological advances. All our enemies and all of our friends offer public education. The most influential education must of course occur in the home. We must keep our families together. And have a spiritual dimension to our existence that begins at home.
ReplyDeleteWowee zowee. You sound like a clear-thinking guy.
ReplyDeleteRe: the obligatory multiculturalism course for ed majors, it's kinda like a piss test (a multi billion $$ industry, like our prisons) that apparently a huge swath of freedom haters in this country applaud, except it takes up more of your time, but you do not have to unzip your willie and produce lemonaide for the scrutiny of your overlords.
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