Portland Principal: PB&J Is Racist
Chicago teachers aren't the only ones indoctrinating kids in progressive ideas such as the evils of being measured by results rather than attitudes. An Oregon principal recently told the Portland Tribune that American food is a symbol of "white privilege."
Verenice Gutierrez picks up on the subtle language of racism every day.
Take the peanut butter sandwich, a seemingly innocent example a teacher used in a lesson last school year.
“What about Somali or Hispanic students, who might not eat sandwiches?” says Gutierrez, principal at Harvey Scott K-8 School...
Oh, there's more.
Through intensive staff trainings, frequent staff meetings, classroom observations and other initiatives, the premise is that if educators can understand their own “white privilege,” then they can change their teaching practices to boost minority students’ performance.
Last Wednesday, the first day of the school year for staff, for example, the first item of business for teachers at Scott School was to have a Courageous Conversation — to examine a news article and discuss the “white privilege” it conveys.
The school is also starting a drum class open only to black and Latino boys. This is where I start seeing signs like "whites need not apply."
The local school district's spokesman said the district saw no problem with the principal's statements. I see a problem that, in a school in need of obvious academic improvement, school staff are spending time on race and sensitivity workshops rather than math and reading training. These kids' problem is not that they're black or brown or purple, it's that they can't read.
Here's a memo to parents and conservatives everywhere: It's not just Chicago union members and Portland principals steeped in failed and outrageous progressive teaching methods. Progressivism reigns in every public school, and state-mandated certification ensures every public school teacher conforms.
Image by Adam Gerard. Edited to fix my idiocy in for some reason thinking of Portland as located in Washington state.
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Nov '11
Re: Portland Principal: PB&J Is Racist
Saw this originally a few days ago: Egads!
Sep '10
Re: Portland Principal: PB&J Is Racist
This isn't just eye-rolling idiocy worthy of mockery. This kind of stuff is poison to the impressionable mind. I wouldn't let my kids within 100 yards of this school.
Aug '10
Re: Portland Principal: PB&J Is Racist
I'm probably missing the obvious, but if you have a conversation which is required by the authorities, how does it qualify as a "Courageous Conversation"? In this school, a courageous act is singing the Wonder Bread advertising jingle.
Feb '12
Re: Portland Principal: PB&J Is Racist
ConservativeWanderer
Sandwiches themselves are racist!!!!!111!!!!!eleventy!!! · Sep 13 at 10:03am
Of course they are!!! They were invented by The Earl of Sandwich: a dead, white male.
Next comes the great Grilled Cheese vs Quesodilla War.
Jun '12
Re: Portland Principal: PB&J Is Racist
Egg_Shen
Next comes the great Grilled Cheese vs Quesodilla War. · 18 minutes ago
Before that, the Grilled Cheese forces will have a civil war over American vs. Cheddar.
May '10
Re: Portland Principal: PB&J Is Racist
What about kids who've been raised in Indonesia? What if they eat...
Oh, I just can't say it, but I want to.
Mar '11
Re: Portland Principal: PB&J Is Racist
Butter-side up or butter-side down?
Jun '12
Re: Portland Principal: PB&J Is Racist
It must be an all out war against peanut butter.
I read this article shortly after reading this post. Some schools have banned peanut butter due to peanut allergies amongst the students.
At other schools the administrators have an allergy against common sense.
Edited on September 15, 2012 at 12:52amApr '12
Re: Portland Principal: PB&J Is Racist
John Presnall: It must be an all out war against peanut butter.
I read this article shortly after reading this post. Some schools have banned peanut butter due to peanut allergies amongst the students.
At other schools the administrators have an allergy against common sense. · 9 minutes ago
Edited 8 minutes ago
I've been seeing the peanut bans in the news every year for a while; I'm just waiting until the food poisoning from taking a turkey sandwich and leaving it your bag gets higher than the number of folks with peanut allergies.
Oct '10
Re: Portland Principal: PB&J Is Racist
Just for the record, there is no surprise here. Progressive education is a vile effort at imparting stupidity to America's kids.
The real sin here is that American parents abandon their children to the hands of these lunatics so they can have their day freed of parenting, and to earn the money for things more valuable than their children. We are handing our future over to this ideology, and then posting on sites like Ricochet that we cannot understand why our children are turning into game-boy orphans.
Jun '12
Re: Portland Principal: PB&J Is Racist
Bottom slice butter-side up, top slice butter-side down.
Otherwise your hands get very messy.
Jun '10
Re: Portland Principal: PB&J Is Racist
But wait - it was a Mexican who once said to me:
"Did you ever notice how seldom it is that life lands jelly-side-up?"
How could he have made such an observation?
Apr '11
Re: Portland Principal: PB&J Is Racist
Is it more racist if they use toasted bread? Blackberry Jelly?
Guess this means no one will be serving waffles and Aunt Jemima syrup for sure.
Jun '12
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Essgee: Is it more racist if they use toasted bread? Blackberry Jelly?
Guess this means no one will be serving waffles and Aunt Jemima syrup for sure. · 0 minutes ago
Is wheat bread less racist than white bread?
Apr '11
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Kervinlee: What about kids who've been raised in Indonesia? What if they eat...
Oh, I just can't say it, but I want to. · 1 hour ago
Down boy, down........
Jun '10
Re: Portland Principal: PB&J Is Racist
With "diversity" and "self-esteem" "cultural sensitivity" being at the core of teachers' education for several decades, and the fact that many millions of students who were subjected to the teachers so produced are now registered voters, how can Obama possibly lose in November?
Nov '10
Re: Portland Principal: PB&J Is Racist
Somewhere an Onion writer is crying.
Dec '10
Re: Portland Principal: PB&J Is Racist
At what point do we invite these morons to renounce their citizenship and return the the 2nd or 3rd world country of their choice?
Apr '12
Re: Portland Principal: PB&J Is Racist
ConservativeWanderer
Bottom slice butter-side up, top slice butter-side down.
Otherwise your hands get very messy. · 17 minutes ago
Nah, that's why you fry them. Makes the butter soak right in, you get a lovely crusty edge, goes well with the mayo and cheese.
Jun '12
Re: Portland Principal: PB&J Is Racist
Foxfier
ConservativeWanderer
Bottom slice butter-side up, top slice butter-side down.
Otherwise your hands get very messy. · 17 minutes ago
Nah, that's why you fry them. Makes the butter soak right in, you get a lovely crusty edge, goes well with the mayo and cheese. · 1 minute ago
He didn't say for fried sandwiches.
Personally, my favorite fried sandwich is the Monte Cristo.
But that's probably racist of me. ;)