Fairfax County high school forces students to play ‘White Privilege Bingo’…

https://citizenfreepress.com/breaki...orces-students-to-play-white-privilege-bingo/

Virginia’s largest school district is on the defensive after it was caught forcing children to participate in a game of “privilege bingo” that singled out kids for characteristics involving their race and family life.

Students at Fairfax County’s Oakton High School were asked to self-identify their privilege for an exercise that the district says “was intended to provide students with an opportunity to reflect on their own experiences while building their critical thinking skills.”

The bingo card contained squares based on categories such as “white, military kid, parents are married, mentally healthy, cisgender, have your own bedroom, Christian, and able-bodied.”

The district initially defended the lesson plan. Assistant Superintendent Douglas A. Tyson said that the card came from an approved Fairfax County Public Schools English curriculum lesson. [emphasis added]

A picture is worth a thousand words. So here it is. Personally I think this reflect some sort of a mental health problem of these left wing teachers. That an an effort by the left to brainwash youth. Social engineering does not belong in the school system.

 

This is the kind of BS that should NOT be taught in our schools. Well, unless separating our kids into categories is what you want to do ...

This is part of what CRT looks like.

 

I did something like this for disability. It's eye opening when you realize how many ways you can 'win' at Bingo. Smart move by the teacher.

 

I think they made a huge mistake by using the word 'privilege'. But if all those statements were used to show that not everyone can identify with even the most basic of those statements, they may well have taught empathy. And it wasn't just about race, of course, as it touched on income, disability, sexual orientation and gender.

 

What a joke.

 

Native English Speaker - There's a reason why this language dominates the planet; its the most expansively precise and simultaneously simplistic spoken language humanity has invented.
Both Parents Went to College - Not so much of a privilege when mom and dad are still waiting tables to pay down $100k worth of student loan debt because companies don't want to hire someone with an Associates Degree in Interpretative Wokeology.
Never Worried about Food - Obviously not a problem given how many homeless people America has, who are discarded because they don't vote and ignored because illegal invaders will.
Drive/Get Driven to School - Nope, I rode Amtrak for 36 years.
Employed - The privilege is when you aren't employed but all your bills still get paid... with other people's money.
Comfortable Walking Outside Alone - As are most people who don't live in a Democrat controlled city.
White - The people that race-obsessed leftist insists aren't superior yet constantly come up with examples of how we are superior in order to explain why we need to change so that we're not superior anymore. /eyeroll
Parents are Married - Oh ya, this ones super-unique to Whites ain't it?
Born in Country of Residence - That's rng not privilege.
No Speech Impediment - Clearly the person who made this list never listened to Brandon speak.
Heterosexual - Some privilege, we don't even have a flag to call our own.
Christian - The only religion you can be openly, hatefully prejudicial towards at literally every level of society and face no repercussions.
Feel Safe Around Police Officers - Well ya, I'm not trying to hurt them first /duh.
Mentally Healthy - Well yea, I wasn't brainwashed by Marxist progressive bullshit.
College is the Expectation - Beats prison being the expectation.
Never Been Racially Profiled - Literally what this bingo game is doing.
Feel Represented in Media - Haha, just try and find a print/web ad or commercial, tv show, or movie, where the number of Whites reflects demographic data.
Able-Bodied - Teacher ran out of anti-White stuff and just tossed this in as filler.
Military Kid - I cant even begin to understand this one.
Have your own Bedroom - Well my parents didn't breed beyond their means to support so...
Involved in Extra Curricular Actives - Like rioting, vandalism, arson, looting, oh I'm sorry I mean like protesting?
Cisgender - Aka normal.
Never Lost a Loved One - Applies to basically no one.
Male - Which I'm guessing includes a caveat for trannys pretending to be male.

 

But I've been reliably reassured by the progressive posters on this forum that CRT is NOT taught in schools.

 

you would think so, here is some of this CRT you people deny is being taught to kids.

 

Wait wait wait... theres no such thing as male, right? I mean, 'anyone can choose to be male', so how is it a privledge?

Whats privledged about 'parents are married'? Are we accepting now that certain communitys' problems might indeed stem from too many deadbeat dads?

What privledges do military kids get?

 

Meanwhile other countries teach math, science, and even real English.

 

It did and I think that's the point. The OP lied, it wasn't about white privilege, it was about privilege in general.

You know emotional intelligence is an important skill too right? Like being able to empathize with others is an important social skill.

You know being able to empathize with others helps with student behavior right? Which is a serious issue in schools these days. So teach empathy because these kids need it now more than ever.

 

Too bad this isn't gonna do that. It isn't teaching empathy, it's teaching - beyond SEPARATING our kids into groups when we're supposed to be building them up as a community - I'd say envy works. Lemee see - I'm not white, what am I gonna do? Look around at the whites and think they're better than me because they had more of this stuff than I did? Although I did have both parents married and they did expect me to go to college.

 

Or more likely realize that there is a serious challenge ahead of you. That you might have to do things differently because of your lack of privilege. The privilege is there no matter what. Saying out loud if a person is rich or poor doesn't change the underlying problem. All it does is give it a name. Why is giving something a name such a problem?

 

And teaching your white kids that they have privileges the others don't only breeds envy among those who don't. Teaching that males have privileges that females don't only teaches bitterness. Teaching that these kids here feel safe around the police only teaches the ones who don't that the police are the enemy and you better start thinking of them as suck, kid. That ain't teaching empathy, that's teaching emnity. And the sad thing is, the people shoving this stuff down our kids throats WANT that separateness, want that emnity to exist and grow.

This almost qualifies as emotional abuse. I'd be horrified to teach this lesson plan, and I don't fit into many of those squares. Teaching my kids that they are different from everyone else? Unreal.

 

Bold assumption that they didn’t feel those words already. Teaching about privilege doesn’t breed those emotions. It names them. What you’re describing is when the hidden transcript matches the public transcript. So instead of kids feeling frustrated over something they can’t explain and hiding their behavior, it’s now named and can be openly discussed. It’s emotional abuse to tell kids they aren’t feeling something when they are. Even worse is depriving them of the language needed to talk about their feelings.

 

And now the kids that are the have-nots can now openly blame and shame the kids that have something they don't.

Congratulations. You've just taught bitterness, envy, and guilt to children.

Maybe you're okay with that. My mission statement is a bit higher than that.

 

Perhaps the Fairfax School school system mission statement deserves a separate thread, but I looked it up:

Fairfax County Public Schools inspires and empowers students to meet high academic standards, lead healthy, ethical lives, and be responsible and innovative global citizens.

"Inspires and empowers students to meet high academic standards" -- I cannot connect the white privilege bingo with academic standards.

"lead healthy ethical lives" - Who determines what is ethical? The government perhaps.

"be responsible and innovative global citizens" -- No. We need to educate American children to become American Citizens.

 

Because being a military kid is some kind of "privilege". I have seen the videos of the kids sobbing when seeing their parent for the first time in a year. How great must it be to know that your parent is in a war zone and could be killed on any given day. How fantastic to have them away throughout your childhood. Since this the progressive definition of "privilege", I would like to volunteer all of these educators for a 4 year tour of duty in Iraq or Somalia. They need a little privilege in their lives.

 

This comment resonated with me. I have two grandchildren who saw their father deploy to Iraq and Afghanistan 5 times. Each one year combat deployment was preceded by 6 months of away from home training. I believe my son will retire as soon as he is eligible due to the emotional impact of military service on his children and wife.

 

SUCCESS BINGO! I love how they put male on there. These ****ing losers.

 

I agree... where do these ridiculous threads come from??

Unfortunately, there isn't a viable link I can find to get the real story here....

 

So your parents being married is some sort of privilege? How, exactly, is two people choosing to making a life together a privilege? It may be different then what some people experience, but marriage is not smooth path.

People who have worked hard, sacrificed other immediate wants and needs to be able to provide a nicer life for their kid is not privilege, it's called being a parent. Because there are people who have different priorities in life doesn't mean one is privileged and one is not. They are individuals who make choices.

Using the term 'privilege' in this context is painting it as a negative, and laying out the guilt for a child. That's the core of it, and IMO, is exactly the intention. Tearing people down may make all people equal in some people's eyes.

 

They need to haul their asses into Court, while their State Legislature drafts legislation prohibiting crazed union school teachers from abusing our children.

How Crazy Are these folks? This crazy. Abolish parenthood? No, family trumps ‘equity.’

And note the center square, second row.

GOP Moms Love Their Freedom and Liberty and they will vote in Nov!​

 

ROFL! These Blacks must not exist, and they are a tiny fraction of the list I could make.

Clarence Thomas
Oprah Winfrey
Colin Powell
Condi Rice
Larry Elder
Marvin Ellison
Rosalind Brewer
Barack Obama
Tim Scott
Ben Carson

Most made it from poverty to the very top of their fields. It's all about family, opportunity, and education... from what we see in this thread, the kids in these programs are not being educated, but indoctrinated and they will do poorly in life.

 

Both parents are married? That directly implies if a kid’s parents aren’t married then they’re somehow below the kids whose parents are married. In both cases, married and unmarried parents, we know exactly who they’re talking about.

And how does this racist CRT bingo prepare students for life after their school years?