What Is The Mascot Of Sontag Elementary School?

I came from a family of Eastern European immigrants. We did this exercise and there was me and a black kid in the very back who had only advanced 1 step from 10 questions and what made it worse was the teacher then accused me of lying. When she asked how we felt in the back she obviously didn’t want to hear my answer but I told her I felt fine because my GGF who hardly spoke English taught me that no matter where I came from if I work hard, focus on my family, and make good choices I can be a success in life growing up in America.

As an irish white kid growing up in an English inner city in the 1970s i can promise you i have never seen white privelege. Stop and search? I was stopped and searched just as much if not more than anybody else. I can honestly say i would have been at the back of that race😂. The middle and upper classes who design school curriculums really do not have a clue

Not only the producers and teachers of this programme have quite successfully managed to divide the kids based on their race, but they also made sure that the white kids felt guily of being white and the black ones felt victimised and resentful to their white friends. This is wrong and counterproductive and it only creates resentment in innocent happy children who have never cared about the colour of each other’s skin. Moreover, this poorly executed attempt to show institutional racism is by a large margin biased, because many of the questions asked, such as whether someone has ever been asked where he came from or wherer someone’s parents’ first language is not english has absolutely nothing to do with racism. And I seriously doubt that any of the victimised kids in this article can’t do things that the white kids can, since they are allowed to play together without any privilege or oppression no matter what their skin color is.

Typical. But then when you point out African privilege in Africa or Asian privilege in Asia you get crickets with these people. Evidently it’s only ever wrong for Europeans to have “privilege” in the places that they have built, never anyone else. For everyone else, their privilege is encouraged and celebrated.

As a black person, I find this downright painful to watch. When you’re trying to raise a generation of kids that don’t care about race, you do it without influence. A society that doesn’t have any influence will inherently be perfect. What this does is build a generation of people that hate themselves for being white or think shit like black people can’t be racist. It’s concerning. You are not making anyone further from being privileged, in fact you’re making them have more of a head start to racist attitudes. Then again I’m African so “what do I know about racism lol” Please don’t say “oh it’s for the greater good” the only good thing about what they’re doing is that they’re taking it slow and so called “teaching” them without just downright saying that they’re racist. Fix your own problems and we’ll fix ours. Don’t make this racism thing our mess.

There’s one little girl that I don’t think was able to take a single step. I think this was brought on too early for the children. Let kids be kids, hate is taught and this is an example of that sans malicious intent. The majority of children do not look at privilege, skin tone,and the remaining children who do look to skin color were taught too by people close to them, like a generational curse!

I’m white, and I’ve been asked where I come from quite frequently. People always want to know what town you grew up in, or what state, et cetera. This isn’t a race thing. I’ve also been warned about racism, which is part of the reason why I can recognize this publicized school activity as being racist itself, not just illustrating racism’s effect.

I am Native American Indian. The only people that held me back in life were my abusive parents. Not the country. I had every opportunity in the world, just like everyone else. We didn’t have free college. We took out student loans and paid and worked for them. I didn’t expect my country to pay for it. The opportunities were there. It wasn’t people on the outside but those in my own home that were cruel and oppressive. And that’s where it begins for everyone. Don’t let these idiots train children who obviously got along very well suddenly divide them. Parents should yank their children out of these brainwashing schools.

I am a teacher and an asian female. This ”activity” is actually horrible I cannot believe these ”teachers” are asking these bizarre questions to these poor kids. They looked like they were having a good time and now all they’re gonna think about is race problems. what is the point of this activity anyways? so that the white students can feel guilty about being born in a country that is actually majority white?? and what does your parents speaking English as a first language have any relation to having white privilege? what if I’m a third generation immigrant and my both asian parents actually spoke Englsih as their first language? I’ve lived in east asia, south east asia, and in america throughout my life. There are different kinds of privileges wherever you go because every country’s social construct is different and racial demographics are different. Do i have to teach my students for my Yellow Privilege when i am teaching in a country that is majority east asian and teach my asian students about their Yellow Privilege and how they should feel bad for being a majority race? Yes, being an immigrant is always difficult. I’ve experienced it myself but it was because my family was trying to make something happen in a different country, with different law, education, community, and language and not because I was racially discriminated. Plus, most kids don’t even think about all this race stuff as long as they can catch pokemon on their phone and have a good time together. Do you need to teach children about discrimination and racism?

Newsflash; Equality is a false God. Of course everyone is treated differently, because most of it is circumstantial and from which area you’re born / grown up in. ‘Lived experiences’ will differ dramatically from person to person. Being aware of the differences doesn’t change a damn thing, it’s only meant to shame another that hasn’t had the lived experience that you’d say has had it ‘better’. Each challenge in life, shapes us all into who we are… if we were all the same, no one would be unique or different. This is utter garbage and against one certain group of people. Do the same in a homogeneous society and see the results there.

This just make my stomach turn, knowing the fact that this CRT is being taught to kids their age, my age, and younger if thay taught this to my generation (youth) which thay are, we wouldn’t really care except for a few woke people but the fact that their teaching it to little kids is nothing but absolute Evil, we all remember when we little kids how we were so young and innocent we didn’t care about things like this.

Those who said this is terrible psychologically to the kids, you are correct. Look up “locus of control,” if you tell the kids that their lot in life is outside of their control you are priming them psychologically to not even try. Yes, we all know that life has elements of luck in it and that some people have priviliges that other people don’t. That’s life. However having the BELIEF that the outcomes of your life are external to you will only make it worse. Having the belief that you can set your own destiny, while not entirely true, is an extremely helpful belief because at least you will do better than otherwise as your brain will perceive and therefore act better in the face of opportunity. This website and this woman, possibly an idiot or ignorant, in fairness to her, has just set these kids up for failure.

In my entomology class, my professor showed us an earwig (insect). “Now, it’s not called an earwig because it enters your ears.” I remember thinking “What?? 😅 I didn’t even think of that?” I mentioned this to my classmates. There were 9 of us and they all laughed and said they didn’t think of it either. So at least within this new group of youngsters, it’s just a wrong connotation that started existing again because the professor assumed. 😅

I have never been more afraid in my life. How does a big website and a big school come together and say we teach our kids how to perceive the society from our point of view not from their own experiences. By teaching racism and segregation between the color of our skin we are not helping the issue we are easing everyone in to it and giving the children the persception of “Its okay, since we are the ones teaching you this you should know you don’t have the power to stop it, since we are your mentees in early life”.

Also notice how all the ‘educators’ relish the abuse they dish out and how they get off on the experience of exerting power over others, especially since those others in this case are children who cannot protect themselves against this abuse. Helpless victims turn their abusers on all the more for them being helpless.

This is just depressing. Telling a child that the colour of your skin is what defines what you have and don’t have in society. Almost an entire century to try and teach people that we are all the same human beings who are all equal no matter the shade of our skin. And here we are going backwards by confronting kids to embrace victimhood and cancel culture. Ridiculous.

“If you are in school, take a step forward.” “If you have all the supplies and resources you need for your education, take a step forward.” “If your parents or parent worked hard to put you here today, take a step forward.” “If your parents encouraged you to do well in all things and be friends with good kids, take a step forward.” “If you are struggling with a class and have teachers who help you get better, take a step forward.” “If you will most likely go to college or become an entrepreneur after this school, take a step forward.” “If you are trying your best right now in school and no one is stopping you from doing so, take a step forward.” “If you have ever been purposefully asked manipulative questions in school that create an imaginary gap in order to further an agenda that blames society for individual failings instead of encouraging people to overcome all obstacles to accomplish great things in life, tell your parents to get these people fired when you go home today.” “If you think that you can’t get ahead or achieve your goals because of the inherent racism of institutions, systems, history, or other people’s accomplishments, then go home and don’t ever come back here until you decide to take responsibility for your own life as a decent human being and not as an undisciplined, unreasonable child.” “If you think it was pretty fair already when you were initially lined up, and you’re all still closely lined up now after taking those steps, then what are you waiting for?

I would like to see this experiment done with a more complete picture of social issues and see where we land. Just as an example. One step forward if your parents make over 30k, if your parents are still together, if your parents are alive, if you’ve never been bullied about your weight, hair colour, accent etc., if you don’t have a disability, if you went to a good school, if you don’t struggle to find the right sized clothes in the shop, if you are at ideal weight etc. I am absolutely not saying there aren’t racial issues in society that need to be addressed, But to focus on this one area and to suggest white people always have the advantage because of a narrow set of questions, i worry goes to negate a lot of the struggles white people legitimately face, which ultimately feels divisive and wrong.

What were the teachers hoping to achieve? Definitely not awareness of something that wasn’t even needed, this is why I don’t like teachers anymore, they don’t teach, they indoctrinate with their smug biased questions. That girl at the back who technically is oppressed was the loudest most obnoxious over confident one who will play victim for ever now and get what she wants

yeah, except I am white as a ghost and I would start behind the starting line….but honestly, they need to include questions that pertain to sexism and girls. It’s unclear how being the only person in a room of your race is disadvantageous, but how about “if you’ve ever not done something you want to do because you are afraid of sexual harassment, take a step forward”. the boy with red hair had the most insightful thing to say – he straight called the adults out for asking biased, slanted questions intended to single out the white students rather than represent actual disadvantages in life. Smart kid. Someone got my comment deleted within a minute after I posted it…you can’t say anything on the internet unless it is the “right” opinion which agrees with the narrative. That’s okay, I can keep reposting with copy/paste.

Questions: – was your country devastated by a war in the last century ? – were you living in a police state that wanted to take away your freedom ? – did you live in a country where you might go to prison or worse if you told what you are thinking eg. I want free press, I want free speach ? – did you live in a country where if you are succesfull with your business – you could go to yail for that ? or the state would take away all you owned ? – did you live in a country that has no free speach ? I am w while male. And I can say YES to those questions. I live in WHITE country – Poland. And that how it was up to 1989. How many of BLACK USA citizens can say yes to any of that questions ? Where is my white privilage ?? I really want to get it.

⁠These teachers don’t debrief each and every student about how they felt about the exercise. Instead, they just assume they did a good job, having no clue what the kids are thinking afterwards. The kids are left on their own to come up with a conclusion, some not even caring or understanding the topic fully. Some may think that this is all just a game and start thinking that they’re better than everyone else, or at least better than the kid that got left behind on their own. Some kids in the back may start realizing that the world isn’t fair and start hating themselves for not being white. Because honestly if I was a kid, I wouldn’t really understand what was going on and feel like I was being left behind in the back because I wasn’t white. As a none white person, I’ve had moments as a kid when I hated myself for not being white. This would’ve literally just confirmed my inner thoughts.

My family never sat around at home and talked about other races. We talked about homework, school work, mama’s work and dad’s work. We talked about our plans, our hopes and dreams and how we could reach our goals. At times my mom and dad worked 2 jobs to make our lives better. We never even inquired about public assistance because my parents would work more if we needed school clothes or had an enexpected expense come up. We didn’t always have a car but they always made sure we had food and clothes and a place to live. We are of Irish descent . We are hard workers even as adults now. We are resourceful and don’t ask the government for anything. To do so would mean we are not totally free people. We would be living under the governments discretion. So would our children. We would rather work 2 jobs than have our children belong to the government.

I legit think this is how you make kids grow up and not expect to achieve highly. What’s the e point of that kind of exercise in America? A meritocracy and a democracy. It’s very dumb to do this to kids. Now the black and white kids may not hang out or go to each other’s houses. I find it silly I really do

Your grandparents had been starved and almost killed to death? -YES Your parents worked for free for many years (without a paycheck ) like slaves? – YES As a child, in your free from school time, every year you had to work in the feilds to grow food for your family’s survival in winter? YES. You have been called names, kicked, spit on, pushed and shoved in shcool and nobody helped you? And so you had to escape school and roam the streets just for safety?YES. You had to choose hard between where to run/escape away from: your school or your home…. in school – you were bullied, but in your home – you were scared your parents would kill each other while arguing over lack of money and from being too drunk? YES. You will wonder all your life what it is like to have parents with a house and grow up in one house? YES. Extreme privilege falls upon me: a move to the US. 15 years after birth….. I myself, came to the US with no English knowledge, and no connections, and no job, and no possessions. I cut family ties and had no access to them because at that time there was no Internet in my country. We had to save pennies for a whole month just to buy a phone card to call to my family and hear their voice once a month. I had to learn alien for me language(English) for a few years (is it my first step backwards)? Later on, I had to get myself out of homelessness in the US, get two university degrees, learn two languages (English, then Spanish), and then still spend 15+ years searchig for a “good” job.

There’s soooo much wrong here. These teachers pretend to know all the right questions but they haven’t got a clue. Since when does being asked where you’re from determine your outcomes in life? To handicap this horse race properly, you’d need a lot more factors than they asked. Like who is below average intelligence. Or whose parents are poor. Or who found their way into the liquor cabinet after a sibling died last year? Or who has a serious medical condition? Privilege is complicated. These teachers have no clue and no right to presume.

If you come to a wealthier country and get paid more, you are oppressed by those that made that possible. And if you let someone into your country you are racist because now there’s a minority. Really? I lived abroad for years and people were racist against me, yet no one there ever created a cult of “we need to tell everyone we have colour privilege on national trlrvision, teach it in our scools, march, berate our ceos and leaders for representing us.”

This is called A HARD LIFE LESSON. As a social studies teacher, this is the EXACT way ude teach this age group about how the past has shaped the present. They feel a way about it… they analyze it.. they dont like it.. and its the PEEFECT transition into GOOD. Now let’s make sure this ish doesnt repeat. Because he who FEELS its KNOWS it. And baby..life ..on this planet..with other humans..humans blind to reality because of rose colored glasses, doesnt help. No soft education, hard lessons for a softer life. This is how you inspire them to change laws and be good neighbors. There are just some hard topics that must be discussed, and this is a very age appropriate way to do so. They will get older, and they need to know how to identify EXACTLY whay they WILL see in this world, why, and how to deal with it.

So, they took a group of diverse children, who were friends and NOT divided by race… taught them to resent their peers, that they are the victims, that their hard work doesn’t matter because they’re behind the white boys. They taught the white boy that no matter what he achieves in life is not because of his hard work or abilities, but because he always had an unfair advantage because of who he is… three years out, I would love to see a psychological test with these kids to see how their opinions about people of different race has changed since this lesson. Do the girls in the back resent white girls? Does the black boy that noticed all the white kids in the front still care about his grades or is he not doing well because he had so much further to go? Does the white kid in the front not care about his work because he believes everything is going to be handed to him? How much did this exercise influence their way of thinking. Just in case you were wondering, this is how you teach children to be racists.