Private School plans to segregate students by race

[Strychnine]

$45,000-per-year private school in uproar over plan to 'segregate' students by race

"In the last month, parents at the $45,485-per-year private school — which counts David Schwimmer, Christy Turlington Burns and Sofia Coppola’s offspring among its pupils — became aware that Director Philip Kassen would place minority middle-school students in the same homerooms come fall.

They also learned that the race-based placement policy had already been in effect for the 2017-18 school year for 7th and 8th graders, and would likely be expanded to the 6th grade in September.

“My daughter who is 11 was like, ‘Wow, this is crazy. They are talking about separating by color,’” one father, who asked to remain anonymous, told The Post.

“And I was thinking how antiquated is this? This is backwards. It’s almost like segregation now.”

After a Post inquiry, Kassen sent a message to parents Wednesday detailing last year’s race-placement “initiative” — which multiple sources said they had never been informed of."

https://nypost.com/2018/06/30/posh-schools-plan-to-segregate-students-by-race-draws-parents-ire/

Wow. Back to 1960's we go...

 

[Gregolian]

Aren't there some colleges that are allowing their students to self segregate?

 

[KONG-D'SNT-TAP]

Is America great yet?

 

[TheComebackKid]

Their school, their rules

 

[nac386]

Just so that you guys don't have to read that entire, absolutely horrendously written article, there are very few minorities in the entire school and the school decided that having that small group share a homeroom would give them the opportunity to build a connection and support each other.

Here are the two most telling quotes:

In the Wednesday missive to parents, he explained the policy was born from conversations with recent graduates who said the school could “create greater opportunities for connection and support.”

“The intention is to make students of color feel that they are a critical mass and have a voice,”

So they think that having kids being the only minority in their class all day long will make them feel like they don't have a voice, but that grouping them together for homeroom will help them to be aware that they are not voiceless. They had good intentions doing this, they really thought the kids would feel good not being the only non-white kid in the room 6 hours a day.

I think it's a bad move, because the kids don't need that shit, the adults do. Adults always project this kind of thing onto kids that don't give a damn.

 

[dontsnitch]

What about the mixed kids?

 

[nostradumbass]

Black students at Harvard organized a black-only graduation ceremony, several colleges have segregated housing. Segregation is apparently "progressive" now.

 

[Fawlty]

Aren't there some colleges that are allowing their students to self segregate?

Even if so, those are adults. These are not.

 

[Fawlty]

Just so that you guys don't have to read that entire, absolutely horrendously written article, there are very few minorities in the entire school and the school decided that having that small group share a homeroom would give them the opportunity to build a connection and support each other.

Here are the two most telling quotes:

So they think that having kids being the only minority in their class all day long will make them feel like they don't have a voice, but that grouping them together for homeroom will help them to be aware that they are not voiceless. They had good intentions doing this, they really thought the kids would feel good not being the only non-white kid in the room 6 hours a day.

I think it's a bad move, because the kids don't need that shit, the adults do. Adults always project this kind of thing onto kids that don't give a damn.

You seem eager to put the best possible spin on their intentions. Seems dubious.

 

[HereticBD]

It seems fucked up, but I've seen some prominent African American groups argue for segregation in schools over the years too. In some cases arguing that the high drop out rate, and low test scores, are due to the schools not being more Afrocentric.

 

[tkotom]

Is America great yet?

lol at you pretending this isn’t a ‘progressive’ driven agenda

 

[nac386]

You seem eager to put the best possible spin on their intentions. Seems dubious.

What? I just read the article and quoted their reasoning. They did not keep their reasoning a secret.

 

[Pessimystic]

Is America great yet?

The return to segregation started while Obama was prez.
Try again.

 

[Thepaintbucket]

Pretty ridiculous.

 

[Seano]

lol, I predicted this. We'd get so fucked up with our safe spaces that we'd end up with new segregation.

 

[Seano]

Just so that you guys don't have to read that entire, absolutely horrendously written article, there are very few minorities in the entire school and the school decided that having that small group share a homeroom would give them the opportunity to build a connection and support each other.

Thats a step backwards. Sure, they may see their fellow minority students as support but from what? And look at it from the other side. It makes me view those students as people who need special care.

 

[syct23]

I'm pretty sure this will end all school violence...

Who is going to want to bully or shoot their own kind..

 

[Fawlty]

What? I just read the article and quoted their reasoning. They did not keep their reasoning a secret.

I guess it's the problem of taking excuses for racial segregation at face value, and with kids.

 

[Gregolian]

Even if so, those are adults. These are not.

Oh I totally understand.

Slightly OT but I find it lulzy that Sofia Coppola's name is dropped in the article like she's done anything worthwhile other than be 3/4 the reason Part III of The Godfather was trash.

 

[Fawlty]

Oh I totally understand.

Slightly OT but I find it lulzy that Sofia Coppola's name is dropped in the article like she's done anything worthwhile other than be 3/4 the reason Part III of The Godfather was trash.

Lost in Translation.