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re: Racism in Preschool
Posted on 4/14/22 at 9:47 am to madamsquirrel
Posted on 4/14/22 at 9:47 am to madamsquirrel
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Brown skin, blond hair, pink bow, and blue shoes are all the same to 4 year olds. They just learned the damn colors last year.
And when they are learning the colors, they actively look for them in places and enjoy pointing them out.
Heard of a similar situation with a friends kid (may have been around 4 or 5). White & Black kid are best friends all school years, because they have known each other since birth as their mom's are great friends and hangout regularly. Suddenly the white one says I can't be your friend because your black. Black kid cries to teacher, teacher is shocked and addresses with parents (teacher knows parents are close because they were emergency pickups for the other). The next week, white kid is crying at school because the black kid is sick and he doesn't have his friend to play with.
Bottom line, no one made a big deal about it, teachers just wanted parents to know in case it turned into something, and it resolved itself in a matter of days
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Posted on 4/14/22 at 10:48 am to 14&Counting
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Little kids say stuff that they don't know what it means. Seems like a leap to say the parents are instilling racism at home? Seems like the school would have a bit more compassion and use it as a teaching moment.
This. I remember in carpool when my oldest and her friend talked about what they were learning about the Civil War and slavery. Her friend piped up that her parents said she couldn't have a black friend. Knowing the parents, it is not something they would have ever said and they were mortified when I told them what she said. We couldn't figure out where she would have heard that or why she would even say it.
So maybe the kid heard something at home but there is a very good chance that they maybe not have. Expulsion to a one off statement seems like an extreme over reaction.
This post was edited on 4/14/22 at 10:50 am
Posted on 4/14/22 at 11:11 am to HoustonChick86
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Does this result in expulsion from school at 4 years old seem fair? I feel like this would have been a great learning experience.
It's absolutely ridiculous, and I would remove my kid from that school.
Posted on 4/14/22 at 11:20 am to The Spleen
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The kid heard it from somewhere, but there’s no way to know it came from the parents. Immediate expulsion seems a bit harsh, but policy is policy I guess.
He's a 4yr old.
Modern society really is pretty pathetic. Everyone is all puckered up waiting to be offended.
Just wait until the kid misgenders someone at the new pre school. He'll be blackballed for good before kindergarten
Posted on 4/14/22 at 11:36 am to HoustonChick86
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Does this result in expulsion from school at 4 years old seem fair? I feel like this would have been a great learning experience.
No, it's not fair at all. Seems a bit over the top for a 4 yr old. I agree it could have been a great teaching moment. Isn't that what teachers are for?
Posted on 4/14/22 at 12:12 pm to HoustonChick86
A 4-year old who exhibits racism is merely mimicking what they have learned (similar for 24-year olds, too, for example and btw).
Zero tolerance policy has delivered zero value here, as this was great learning moment for all involved. Better approach would have been to call in parents of “racist” 4 year old to advise of behavior and set expectations for their changing it of their 4-year old, starting with apology to “brown skinned” 4-year old.
If no support from parents or change in behavior, then hit zero tolerance button.
Lazy approach gets poor results
Zero tolerance policy has delivered zero value here, as this was great learning moment for all involved. Better approach would have been to call in parents of “racist” 4 year old to advise of behavior and set expectations for their changing it of their 4-year old, starting with apology to “brown skinned” 4-year old.
If no support from parents or change in behavior, then hit zero tolerance button.
Lazy approach gets poor results
Posted on 4/14/22 at 12:44 pm to Weekend Warrior79
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Suddenly the white one says I can't be your friend because your black.
Maybe he heard the media scum talking about how evil and racist white people are and how dangerous is is for the poor black people to be around them and just wanted to save his friend from the obvious violence that would inevitably come from their friendship?
Posted on 4/14/22 at 12:59 pm to HoustonChick86
When my baby sister was 5 she made a similar comment. It wasn’t racism, it was a child’s brain seeing someone that looked different from herself as being different.
We had to teach her in that moment that that did not matter and you can be friends with anyone who you like because it’s what’s on the inside that counts.
We had to teach her in that moment that that did not matter and you can be friends with anyone who you like because it’s what’s on the inside that counts.
Posted on 4/14/22 at 1:03 pm to The Spleen
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The kid heard it from somewhere
bullshite. Kids want to be around people they are comfortable with. The kid is white and has most likely always been around white people.
My mom tells a story of taking my brother to McDonalds as a young child and seeing some black babies...and he blurts out "I don't like the little black babies, I like the little pink ones like us" or something to that effect.
Posted on 4/14/22 at 1:04 pm to HoustonChick86
Kids say all kinds of dumb and ignorant shite—I don’t care where they’re raised. It’s what they do. That daycare is run by morons, I have no doubt.
Posted on 4/14/22 at 1:18 pm to The Spleen
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The kid heard it from somewhere,
More than likely it was a teacher at this very school. I’ll guarantee you that teaching the colors and how they are different is part of the curriculum. God forbid a student pointed out what he/she was taught at the school.
People are different, big deal.
Posted on 4/26/22 at 11:24 am to HoustonChick86
Update
I finally got to see the family that got kicked out at tee-ball last weekend.
NO TEACHER HEARD THE COMMENT.
The girl told her mom, a teacher in another room, the teacher/mom was ok but the grandparents forced it that they kick this family out.
Un fricking real.
I finally got to see the family that got kicked out at tee-ball last weekend.
NO TEACHER HEARD THE COMMENT.
The girl told her mom, a teacher in another room, the teacher/mom was ok but the grandparents forced it that they kick this family out.
Un fricking real.
Posted on 4/26/22 at 11:57 am to The Spleen
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I agree a learning experience has likely been wasted.
Maybe not. Maybe it’s a good time to teach your kids about cancel culture. About how you have to constantly watch what you say and how it will follow you the rest of your life, even a comment that, according to the update, no employee of the school even heard. How even the mere suggestion that you may have said something politically incorrect even if you didn’t, or even if it was 50 years ago and you admit you feel terrible about it (Paula Deen), will get the online lynch mob after you and ruin your life. It’s an opportunity to learn early to be always on your guard, because we live in what is commonly referred to as “today’s climate.”
Posted on 4/26/22 at 12:06 pm to HoustonChick86
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My son is 4 years old, his best friend was kicked out of school last week for saying she wasn't someone's best friend because she has brown skin, the friend is Muslim. Its a first offense, but school has zero tolerance. So daycare kicked out the girl and her sister saying the parents are instilling racism in their home. It all started over sharing a book.
Kids are frickin retards. This could have absolutely NOTHING to do with the parents and just something the kid noticed with their own two eyes. A 4 yr old's logic could be as silly as:
1 Most of the kids are white
2. I'm white
3. Different is bad.
That logic could be applied to toys/candy/etc as well
The school should be doing the opposite from kicking them out. Instead, the offense should be a teaching moment.
Unless the parents are in fact pieces of shite.
This post was edited on 4/26/22 at 12:07 pm
Posted on 4/26/22 at 12:33 pm to HoustonChick86
Posted on 4/26/22 at 12:45 pm to HoustonChick86
I didn't like this black girl touching me in K-5 because I thought she had germs, but do remember her smelling bad most days.
Posted on 4/26/22 at 12:46 pm to HoustonChick86
It’s a legal thing. The school/daycare doesn’t want to be on national media for racism issues.
Posted on 4/26/22 at 12:48 pm to HoustonChick86
Only thing his parents are doing wrong is not giving the school enough money.
Funny how a kid whos parents are big doners to a school never get kicked out.
Funny how a kid whos parents are big doners to a school never get kicked out.
Posted on 4/26/22 at 12:48 pm to AboveGroundPool
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just leaving this here... disney episodes 3rd vid down
“Why did she cross the street when she saw us
?”
Because last time your cousins stole her purse Tyrone.
Posted on 4/26/22 at 12:58 pm to HoustonChick86
Your friend is lucky this didn’t make national news. If the right race baiter had gotten a wiff of this story and decided to make a scene out of it the parents would have been canceled and probably lost their jobs
Could have been way worse
The school is freakin stupid. If they would have just sat her down and taught her what she actually said her and the other girl would have probably ended up being best friends. That’s how it works with kids
Could have been way worse
The school is freakin stupid. If they would have just sat her down and taught her what she actually said her and the other girl would have probably ended up being best friends. That’s how it works with kids
This post was edited on 4/26/22 at 1:01 pm
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