{"id":14979,"date":"2016-07-18T15:26:26","date_gmt":"2016-07-18T20:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/frenchrevolution\/?p=14979"},"modified":"2016-07-18T16:42:23","modified_gmt":"2016-07-18T21:42:23","slug":"how-an-elite-nyc-school-re-segregates-kids-gives-black-students-cupcakes-and-shame-white-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/frenchrevolution\/2016\/07\/18\/how-an-elite-nyc-school-re-segregates-kids-gives-black-students-cupcakes-and-shame-white-students\/","title":{"rendered":"How an elite NYC school re-segregates kids, gives black students cupcakes, and shames white students"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 507px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/97761808\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 66.666667% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline-block; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; margin: 0;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/97761808?et=fMSKoWe4QjN65nl2njiEyQ&amp;viewMoreLink=off&amp;sig=M_r7h0pfmjt37ame4dloIylfgICEAOIhmIJ-DvtJjis=\" width=\"507\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0;\">\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>What\u2019s the best way to teach white elementary school children how to examine their \u201cwhiteness\u201d and realize the \u201cprivilege\u201d that goes along with it? Move the black students into their own room and offer them comfort and cupcakes.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>At least, that\u2019s how they\u2019re doing it at the Bank Street School for Children in Manhattan. <a href=\"http:\/\/nypost.com\/2016\/07\/01\/elite-k-8-school-teaches-white-students-theyre-born-racist\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\"><em>The New York Post<\/em><\/a> reported on the school\u2019s \u201cRacial Justice &amp; Advocacy Curriculum\u201d headed by social justice activist and \u201cdirector of diversity,\u201d Anshu Wahi.<\/p>\n<p>The program has a few set \u201cgoals\u201d that are presented in the K-8 classrooms at this elite private school. There are separate activities for black and white students. The black students are moved to a \u201cdedicated space\u201d where they will not only be the majority, but will \u201cfeel embraced\u201d by minority teachers who will allow them to \u201cshare experiences about being a kid of color\u201d and offer them a safe space to \u201cvoice their feelings.\u201d Sometimes they even get cupcakes.<\/p>\n<p>But the atmosphere for the white kids is decidedly different. They are essentially shamed for being white. They\u2019re made aware \u201cof the prevalence of Whiteness and privilege\u201d and are challenged on the false \u201cnotions of colorblindness\u201d and \u201cassumptions of \u2018normal,\u2019 \u2018good\u2019 and \u2018American.'\u201d They are also taught to \u201cunderstand and own European ancestry and see the tie to privilege\u201d and finally, they will \u201clearn models of White anti-racist advocates.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And parents are furious. Speaking anonymously to <em>The Post<\/em>, they said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cEver since Ferguson, the school has been increasing anti-white propaganda in its curriculum.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne hundred percent of the curriculum is what whites have done to other races. They offer nothing that would balance the story. Any questions they can\u2019t answer they rationalize under the pretense of \u2018institutional racism,\u2019 which is never really defined.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>These parents are noticing their young children coming home in tears feeling like bad people. (Plus, they\u2019re mad they didn\u2019t get any cupcakes!)<\/p>\n<p>Wahi refused to answer <em>The Post<\/em>\u2018s questions, instead referring them to the communications office, but the report had access to conversations between the director and parents as well as various handouts. In one handout, Wahi explains her belief that children are born racist. <em>The Post<\/em> explains:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>She believes the answer to racism is teaching white kids to see race in everything \u2014 a process called \u201cwhite racial socialization.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Forget teaching them to be color-blind \u2014 that\u2019s a cop-out, she suggests, an excuse to ignore the hardships of people of color. It\u2019s also a \u201ctool of whiteness\u201d to perpetuate the \u201coppression\u201d of people of color, according to one paper she recommends parents read.<\/p>\n<p>Wahi believes even white babies display signs of racism, so she encourages parents to talk to their kids about race as early as kindergarten, making them hyperaware of racial differences, and even \u201cexamine your own whiteness.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The director downplays the segregation aspect of the program, preferring to call it \u201cseparation\u201d instead, by saying the safe space is where children of color can share their \u201couch moments\u201d \u2014 that is, when they\u2019ve been \u201cvictimized\u201d by microaggressions.<\/p>\n<p>Once, Wahi decided to show students the PBS documentary <em>Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution<\/em>, which glorified the extremely violent movement.<\/p>\n<p>But this isn\u2019t the first time parents have been troubled by Wahi\u2019s actions. Shortly after the 2013 Boston Marathon terrorist attack, she sent out an e-mail to parents, urging them to \u201cbe mindful of stereotypes and dangerous ideas\u201d regarding Muslims or Arabs. She even linked to a Salon article titled, \u201cLet\u2019s hope the Boston Marathon bomber is a white American.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bank Street School isn\u2019t the only private school doing this. According to <em>The Post<\/em>, there are several others in the New York area that are shaming it\u2019s white students, as well.<\/p>\n<p>This is Obama\u2019s America,\u00a0the land of racial healing.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Segregation is back in New York private schools, but this time it&#8217;s the white kids that are punished.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":15157,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>How an elite NYC school re-segregates kids, gives black students cupcakes, and shames white students<\/title>\n<meta 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