• aidan@lemmy.worldM
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    From the person complaining:

    When asked for an example of what was concerning parents, Dungan replied: “A poster that shows ‘All Belong Here’ with racially colored hands. This was an example that was first brought to me early this year.”

    She continued: “I think the intention of the poster was good and the parent thought that the intention of the poster was good. However, the unintended consequences of that poster made the first grader feel like ‘why wouldn’t I be accepted here?’ It had a reverse effect on the first grader because it was in the classroom.”

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    Not a good argument at all- but she clearly didn’t say kids of different races couldn’t be friends.

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        However, the unintended consequences of that poster made the first grader feel like ‘why wouldn’t I be accepted here?’

        According to the official

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            That could be why, idk. But I don’t think that would be the child’s motive. But the story could also just be manufactured by the official.

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              I was not assigning a motive to the child. I was figuring out why the school could not defend the poster.

              The child asked why they might have not felt included, which leads to the followup questions about who was excluded and why.

              And the answers are slavery, racism, and segregation.