Josh Thompson, an English teacher at Blacksburg High School in Virginia: “Making sure that you’re following directions, and making sure that you’re sitting quietly, and you are in your seat, all these things that come from white culture. So if we’re positively enforcing these behaviors, we are by extension positively enforcing elements of white culture, that keeps whiteness at the center — which is the definition of white supremacy,” *1
Equitable Math Organization - white supremacy
focus on getting the "right" answer
word problems are valued
Students are tracked (grouped by skill level)
Control of classrooms
is valued over student's agnecy over their learning.
Results valued over effort
Students are required to “show their work”
Grading *2
Harvard - White Supremacy
- Trying to be correct, Sense of Urgency, Valuing Written Word, Valuing Results Over Effort, Politeness, Individualism, Self Reliance, Believing Progress is Bigger and More, Believing in Objectivity, Right to Comfort
Unitarian Church of Evanston
WHITE CULTURE
good parenting, stable family, well-raised child, individual self-sufficiency, independence and autonomy, right to comfort, avoid conflict, politeness, cause and effect relationships, rational linear thinking *4
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