I tell y’all, every time I think the Left has reached the bottom of the race baiting barrel, they find a new bottom! H/T Lonely Conservative
Are peanut butter and jelly sandwiches racist? A bizarre question, to say the least, but one that at least one school administrator is asking out in Portland, Oregon. Verenice Gutierrez, principal at Harvey Scott K-8 School, seems to believe that there are racial connotations associated with the common lunch-time meal.
According to Gutierrez, using the example of a peanut butter sandwich in classroom lessons is technically a problematic and discriminatory move — one that was made by a teacher in her building last school year. While such a notion may bring out laughs among those who find it absurd, the principal explains her logic.
“What about Somali or Hispanic students, who might not eat sandwiches?,” she said. “Another way would be to say: ‘Americans eat peanut butter and jelly, do you have anything like that?’ Let them tell you. Maybe they eat torta. Or pita.”
ARRGGGH! How did this dunce get to be in charge of anything? But, it gets more inane
Portland Public Schools is in the process of integrating “Courageous Conversations,” an equity training that has been coming in phases over the past few years. The Portland Tribune explainsthe district’s intentions, in detail:
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.
My head might explode if I go on, but, I will risk it this is where these idiots, like this principal, get their wacky ideas
The Tribune has more about the principal and the district‘s program that she’s seeking to utilize in the school:
Like many if not all of PPS’ leaders, Gutierrez has gone through California-based consultant Glenn Singleton’s “Coaching for Educational Equity,” a weeklong seminar on race and how it affects life; she’s also become an “affiliate,” certified to teach the equity curriculum; and she serves on the district’s administrative committee to address systematic racism, a group that meets every other week.
“Our focus school and our Superintendent’s mandate that we improve education for students of color, particularly Black and Brown boys, will provide us with many opportunities to use the protocols of Courageous Conversations in data teams, team meetings, staff meetings, and conversations amongst one another,” Guitierrez’ letter to staff reads.
Good God! Where is common sense? Does anyone still have it? This is the end result of dumbing everything down. You end up with nothing but dummies! This is what the Left has done to us folks. Now we have to teach students according to their skin color? Talk about a racist theory? That is flat out racist!
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Dave C
Gatordoug
Doug all I can say is wow…
The really odd thing is that IF the teacher had used tacos, instead of PB&J she would have been accused of stereotyping Hispanic kids
As a bona fide Hispanic, born in Latin America, who has spent more time than was good for his blood lipid levels in Hispanic restaurants, sampling the various national cuisines (which vary widely), I can vouch for the fact that Hispanics eat sandwiches! . . . And, in the U. S., Hispanics eat _lots_ of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. But, pace Gatordoug, people like Verenice Gutierrez know that full well. (How could they not, unless they live as hermits in caves whenever they are not making pronouncements on the latest multiculturalist trope?).
Gutierrez and her mentor, Glenn Singleton, might well be imbeciles, but I doubt that stupidity is what is driving her “narrative,” concerning the supposed insensitivity of referring to peanut butter and jelly sandwiches in the course of teaching a lesson: rather, people like her are playing malicious mind games with white teachers, lading on the racial guilt, thus ensuring that their hapless charges are taught with a multiculturally and politically correct slant.
Is the fact that we, as a society, allow this sort of thing to happen absurd? Of course. But the reality is that we have been allowing it for going on a half-century now, with the resultant sea-change in our mores and laws . . . does a single public school exist anymore in the U. S. where a teacher could approach American History from an unabashedly patriotic point of view without being admonished? Or where a sex education class could present the unvarnished truth of the health consequences of homosexual sodomy? Or where a current events session could deal with the ongoing Moslem jihad against Jews and Christians honestly? To pose these questions is to answer them.
Until conservative–or merely sane–Americans effectively and persistently oppose educrats like Gutierrez and Singleton, the ideological ratchet with which they drive the nation’s educational culture will continue to tighten the cultural-Marxist grip on our schools . . . and our children.
So Verenice Gutierrez (the idiot principal at Scott school in Portland, Oregon) thinks that peanut butter and jelly sandwiches are racist? This woman is beyond stupid and has no business being in a school. She certainly has no business being a principal of a school.
Let this idiot principal know what you think. Contact her!
Scott school phone number: (503) 916-6369
Verenice Gutierrez’s email: vgutierr@pps.net
Source for contact information:
http://www.pps.k12.or.us/schools/scott/317.htm