Just imagine if they weren’t as polite as to tender foot around white fragility.
“White guilt” doesn’t exist unless you think that some how “white” people are so inferior as to require systemic discrimination to compete against other populations.
Nothing is being asked but to acknowledge the truth, and to move closer to being “… one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”
The Edina district’s stated mission (from the district’s website) sounds a little different from what the article claims.
"The mission of the Edina Public Schools, working in partnership with the family and the community, is to educate all individuals to be responsible, lifelong learners who possess the skills, knowledge, creativity, sense of self-worth, and ethical values necessary to thrive in a rapidly changing, culturally diverse, global society.'*
As to whether they’re trashing the idea of academic achievement, they seem to be ranked highly among school districts in the state, though that might not mean much if Minnesota is backwards overall. :dubious:
Maybe Edina officials are lying about their mission and actively programming the little ones to overthrow the Constitution, but it’s difficult to take the article cited in the OP at face value.
*schools must’ve changed a lot since I was growing up. I remember our principal as being active in denigrating our self-worth, especially in athletics. 
Yes. I would have no problem with it.
I can tell you that she already provides “feminist” thoughts to her reading, and didn’t need to be taught to do so.
The other point about this, which I doubt the article-writer is informed enough to understand, is that there are many schools of literary criticism, and that course listed “marxist, feminist, post-colonial, psychoanalytic, reader response, and aesthetic lenses,” some of the major schools in modern lit-crit. Teaching high school students about some of the major philosophical approaches to lit-crit is a 100% worthy educational goal, even if it gives some conservatives the vapors.
Oh, come on.
We’ve all seen a thousand “articles” like this on the Internet, haven’t we? From both sides of the political spectrum? And people still fall for this kind of sensationalist crap?
Everyone here who’s honest with themselves, or at least who don’t actually believe “Bat Boy” is a real thing, knows full well the account in the OP is exaggerated by at least two orders of magnitude. What happened is the Edina district instituted a few policies regarding sensitivity to racial bias, of the sort that require a little training but which otherwise are barely noticeable and you’d likely forget they existed, and a few snowflakes got all huffed about it and went ballistic.
We have seen this story before, will see it again, and if you fall for it you’re a chump.
But what if the people in charge are secretly black nationalists trying to convince our white children that they’re members of the squirrel race naturally subjugated to the black lion race? What if, Rickjay? What if?
Never x 100000000
They do. This particular piece of sensationalist crap was well funded and professionally produced. The right wing “think-tank” that produced it paid to have it delivered as a glossy magazine to every address in Edina…just days before an upcoming school board election.
I agree! I used to fall for this silly-but-effective tactic, but I got better.
Well, ideally, both fearful and angry!
All I noticed in your post is that you said, “SQUIRREL!!!”
It’s more than that. It’s liberal idealists with their heads in the sand, who KNOW that poor/black/brown/urban kids cannot be educated–everyone KNOWS–but for some reason we can’t admit it. Therefore the secret agenda of the left is to eliminate the achievement gap by dumbing down white kids, because we are desperate to conceal the fact of white superiority because cucks.
Not everyone who reads these sorts of things is thinking that, but the dog whistle is there for those who want to hear it.
Especially for those who really, really, REALLY want to hear it. And the purpose of a teacher who sets as an expectation
is to ensure that her students will hear it whether it’s there or not.
Regards,
Shodan
How horrible to be asked to look at the literature you teach through different eyes. :rolleyes:
Hey buddy, ain’t ya heard of my school, it’s number one in the state 
For the win.
That’s it, pretty much. A huge part of this is white supremacy fighting back, as it’s done very effectively since Reconstruction.
Compaired to the the status quo which could be stated as:
That is the real state the person from the OP is asking for?
That commentator’s rhetoric shows that they are afraid their world view can’t survive in daylight, and that only hiding the errors of past generations will protect their world view.
Are the ideals of the founding fathers especially their imperfectly implemented dreams of equality so tenuous that they can only be maintained by hiding the mistakes of our past? Is that entire world view on such shaky ground that we have to protect students from other ideas that look to better apply those core concepts?
Those who ignore history are bound to repeat it, and we can move forward with the great experiment or we can continue to tolerate tyranny.
Is it just that I and other feel more comfortable about fighting for justice and liberty? Outside of needing to compete on a more level basis, what risk is there in truly targeting for social justice and equality?
Can you make a case for hiding historical fact or other points of view to me? I am not baiting here but I seriously want to understand why this is such a concern for some people. The only reason I can see is that people are embarrassed about bad things that happened in the past. It may be just differing world views, but I am far more bothered by the possibility that we continue these injustices in the future.
I cannot change the past or the actions of others, but I can try to stop being what I view as evil to others today. I personally view it as learning from our mistakes.
No, your comeback was lame and failed to answer the question.
Since they don’t exist, I won’t answer such an absurd hypothetical.
You mean the dumb strawman question you asked about something that’s not happening? Okay, I’ll answer it.
Yes. I totally agree that if republicans were to go around murdering people it would be bad. They should totally cut that out.