Black Mom Sues School After She Says Biracial Son Received Failing Grade In Sociology Class for Refu

I hope she wins. That is disgusting.

98cwitr said:

Black Mom Sues School After She Says Biracial Son Received Failing Grade In Sociology Class for Refusing to Confess His 'White Dominance'

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School sure has changed in the last 30+ years, we used to fail because we would miss more than we would get right on a test.

It seems like the teacher, Kathryn Bass, enjoys stripping kids of their "white privilege", by failing them... If that's her goal, and she feels justified in doing it, then she needs to be stripped of her teaching career, IMO.

d taylor said:

School sure has changed in the last 30+ years, we used to fail because we would miss more than we would get right on a test.

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Agreed. Plus, I thought you *couldn't* fail nowadays - he should've received a "Pass" just for showing up to take the test.

Maybe it's time to start failing teachers more interested in indoctrinating kids than teaching them.

I'm biracial. I'm not confessing my "white dominance" either. Does this mean that every single credential I earned in school will now be revoked?

Hope this teacher loses her job.

So much for charter schools saving us.

Landon Caeli said:

It seems like the teacher, Kathryn Bass, enjoys stripping kids of their "white privilege", by failing them... If that's her goal, and she feels justified in doing it, then she needs to be stripped of her teaching career, IMO.

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Some people are very vindictive. "How dare people stand up for themselves? I'll fail them instead." Not knowing that they are the very ones who fail by doing just that.

SongOnTheWind said:

Some people are very vindictive.

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She was nursed at the School Board's teat, no doubt. Watch some of the YouTube’s of parents confronting the petty lord and lordettes of various school boards. Reminds one of Congress, lol.

GOD Shines Forth! said:

She was nursed at the School Board's teat, no doubt. Watch some of the YouTube’s of parents confronting the petty lord and lordettes of various school boards. Reminds one of Congress, lol.

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They learned it from somewhere, lol. That's the scary thing about the way authority can trickle down.

I think this school should teach whatever it wants, it is a privately run institution, so the child should comply. Charter schools are amazing!

98cwitr said:

Black Mom Sues School After She Says Biracial Son Received Failing Grade In Sociology Class for Refusing to Confess His 'White Dominance'

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"In the class taught by Bass, a self-described “white, Irish, American citizen,” Clark was allegedly forced to reveal his race, gender, sexual and religious identities and attach labels to the identities, which the lawsuit claims violated his right to privacy.

An instructional slide included in court documents displays dominant groups in American culture as “white,” “male,” “middle/upper class,” “heterosexual,” and “protestant/Christian,” while “everyone else” is categorized as “submissive.”

Labels like “white” are associated by Bass with “privilege,” while words like “female” and “working class” are associated with “oppressive.”

The Clarks’ suit makes several explosive claims about Bass. It said she referred to the students as “social justice warriors,” and also informed them that they would have to “undo and unlearn” beliefs, attitudes and behaviors associated with oppression.

Legal filings in the case depict Bass as using a meme featuring an image of SpongeBob SquarePants to communicate to students that “reverse racism doesn’t exist.”

“Racism = Prejudice + Power. Therefore, people of color CANNOT be racist,” a slide read.


This teacher has no business in the classroom, indoctrinating students with her political ideologies. This mother deserves a standing ovation and a win.

SummerMadness said:

I think this school should teach whatever it wants, it is a privately run institution, so the child should comply. Charter schools are amazing!

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Charter schools are funded with public school tax dollars.

RestoreTheJoy said:

Charter schools are funded with public school tax dollars.

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Only because some idiots thought it be a good idea to use public funds to pay for private schools.

What happened to the one drop rule?

keith99 said:

What happened to the one drop rule?

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That is an interesting discussion. While racist whites invented it for their purposes, it was also useful for black people to unify across tonal values because of it.

Prior to the 70s, virtually all "light-skinned" black people were the result of, well, "selective breeding" within the black community itself. Interracial marriages were, as you know, illegal in 16 states and strongly discouraged by Draconian social measures nearly everywhere else. And while light-skinned blacks got a small amount of "privilege" in some areas, being light-skinned never got anyone past a door marked "white," which meant "none of us is free until all of us are free" had a meaning. Even Lena Horne was forced to pee in a Dixie cup when entertaining in white venues, because she wasn't allowed to use the white-only restrooms.

Things changed after Loving v Virginia, in which a white man took the state to court for the right to marry anyone he wanted (being white and male didn't yet afford all the privilege he craved). The result was a boom of interracial marriages and biracial children in the 70s and 80s.

And then, suddenly "biracial" became a thing in the 90s. Prior to the 90s, it was not a thing of any social recognition. It was white mothers who created a new social group to separate their children from being considered "black." Interestingly, biracial children tend to "identify" according to the race of their mothers, with the biracial children of black mothers more often identifying as black while the biracial children of white mothers tend to identify as...not-black.

So, the US (specifically, white women) has now created a whole new racial category it had not had before, "biracial." This has had negative implications for "unambiguously black" people, particularly unambiguously black women, who see themselves being erased from media. I'd mention again that white women do most of that media casting, which is something unambiguously black women will also mention.

My daughter happens to be light-skinned in the "old fashioned" way--her mother and I have some Caucasian genes like most of us, and she got one of those random combinations that brought her out lighter skinned than either of us, although her features are typically full and her hair is typically curly. She has never considered herself anything other than ADOS, although she's had the lower-middle class upbringing typical of a military brat, raised in the ultimate of gated communities: Military bases.

She was ostracised in public schools in the 90s, however, by unambiguously black girls who presumed she was biracial. And she has been surprised in recent years to find that she has been the unknowing recipient of "biracial privilege" with the white CEO of her current company. She realized it when she was in meetings with him and he kept mentioning his biracial grandchildren to her: "...you know, my grandchildren are biracial, too...."

Black activists are on one hand denouncing the "one drop rule" because they want to clearly separate biracial people from the unambiguously black, and at the same time they're developing further distinctions such as "multi-generational biracial" for people who are lighter-skinned but have traditionally black-identified parents...such as my daughter. "Multi-generational biracial?" It seems to me that category would include pretty much all of us ADOS blacks, if DNA tests be told...but, oh, well.

This is a whole new social change, and we don't know where it's going to go.

loveofourlord said:

Only because some idiots thought it be a good idea to use public funds to pay for private schools.

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It's not idiotic and they are not private schools, which come with private school tuition. We have one in the inner city where Latin is taught through the AP level, which is pretty rare. Latin helps with so many other subjects, particularly languages. Kids interested in this classical approach can go there if they can get in (a lottery, I understand). Options are good to have; you don't have to choose them for yourself.

RestoreTheJoy said:

It's not idiotic and they are not private schools, which come with private school tuition. We have one in the inner city where Latin is taught through the AP level, which is pretty rare. Latin helps with so many other subjects, particularly languages. Kids interested in this classical approach can go there if they can get in (a lottery, I understand). Options are good to have; you don't have to choose them for yourself.

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Yes they are, they are a backdoor way get religious and other schools that have no business getting public funds being given them. It's disgusting.

Tavernier said:

Agreed. Plus, I thought you *couldn't* fail nowadays - he should've received a "Pass" just for showing up to take the test.

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Only if you're rich or middle class.

Maybe it's time to start failing teachers more interested in indoctrinating kids than teaching them.

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This is private school, not public school.

loveofourlord said:

Yes they are, they are a backdoor way get religious and other schools that have no business getting public funds being given them. It's disgusting.

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Perhaps you didn't see what I wrote. I referenced a Classical Latin charter school in the inner city.

No one is giving city money to religious schools. I think you don't understand how this works. If a state DOES offer tuition assistance for choice, which is a different matter, the choice cannot exclude a school simply because it is religious. But that has nothing to do with charter schools.

"Asked Tuesday by a reporter about the possibility of religious charter schools, lawyers for the parents in Espinoza rejected the idea.

“Charter schools are public schools, and they receive direct public funding,” Keller said. “There is not an opportunity under this ruling for states to authorize religiously affiliated charter schools.”