The “white privilege” crowd claims that fundamental ideals of American society, like hard work for personal gain and personal ownership of property, are products of white culture and completely foreign to black students…One concept in particular – “I earned this through hard work and effort” – is particularly meaningless to black students, according to the manual..
Oregon school district spends big on controversial ‘white privilege’ teacher training
GRESHAM, Ore. – Go ahead and call Dan Chriestenson out of step with the times.
The two-term school board member from Oregon’s Gresham-Barlow district yearns for the hopeful goal of the 1960s civil rights movement – to eliminate race as a factor in American society.
He’s sickened to see just the opposite happening today, due to the bizarre theories of a group of radicals who use stubborn racial problems in K-12 education to promote their leftist political agenda and make a lot of money.
And he’s troubled that the employees of his school district are being immersed in those theories.
Every year the Gresham-Barlow school district, like many others across the state, sends teachers and administrators to a week-long “Coaching for Educational Equity” conference in Cottage Grove, Oregon. The Conference is presented by a private non-profit organization called the Oregon Center for Educational Equity (OCEE).
The event is based on the concept of “white privilege,” which is the idea that all white people are racists, whether they realize it or not, and that racism permeates American society and the nation’s education system.
The theory says that school curricula, instructional methods and disciplinary policies are hopelessly based on the norms of white culture, for the exclusive benefit of white students. It teaches that black students cannot possibly succeed unless K-12 education is modified and customized to their supposed culture.
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The “white privilege” crowd claims that fundamental ideals of American society, like hard work for personal gain and personal ownership of property, are products of white culture and completely foreign to black students.
That means schools that try to prepare black children for success in the American free market economy are spinning their wheels, because black culture is collectivist in nature. The obvious political message is that black kids will only thrive in a socialist economy.
Chriestenson thinks all of that is a dangerous recipe for more division between the races, and continued failure for too many black students.
“If you tell a black kid that if you work hard you can achieve anything you set your mind to, that’s racist, because you are perpetuating a myth of meritocracy,” Chriestenson told EAGnews.
“They are setting black kids up for failure by telling them that whitey will never let them do it – this culture will never let them succeed. And they’re telling white kids that their best efforts will only produce undeserved rewards, because it was all handed to them.
“They are segregating students. They are spreading anger among students of color and guilt among white students.”
‘All white people are racist. I am a racist’
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