Comments on: Dallas Dance’s re-tweet about non-white students gets backlash

By: wut?

wut? — Wed, 23 Nov 2016 02:25:44 +0000

In reply to Retired Teacher. Hard to figure out what you mean here. Do you think that white children felt especially endangered after the election, given the atmosphere of racism (with neo-Nazis giving speeches in support of Trump)? Dance did the right thing.

By: Editor in Chief

Editor in Chief — Mon, 14 Nov 2016 00:05:49 +0000

In reply to Frank N Beans. What's funny is that your comment contains a grammatical error, as well. Maybe proofread your own posts before criticizing someone else's mastery of a language.

By: Retired Teacher

Retired Teacher — Sat, 12 Nov 2016 23:58:50 +0000

In reply to Foamy. We need to support ALL children. Period. End the singling out of any group - for whatever reason.

By: Retired Teacher

Retired Teacher — Sat, 12 Nov 2016 18:24:03 +0000

If we allow ourselves to get caught up over this latest gaffe by Dance (he is just impulsive and the fingers fly too fast on Twitter), we will miss the more egregious things happening in our schools and to our children – the unbalanced use of technology and lack of research to support it. Keep your eye on the ball, folks!

By: Frank N Beans

Frank N Beans — Sat, 12 Nov 2016 13:40:41 +0000

Political Science Educators should be the only individuals discussing this topic with Political Science Students. All other educators especially ones that can not use the English language properly (Dance’s commit about not wording the tweet correctly) have no business discussing political issues. For example you wouldn’t go to a Proctologist to perform Neurosurgery unless your name is Dance.

By: Neschume

Neschume — Sat, 12 Nov 2016 00:09:04 +0000

My white children are being exposed to this ridiculous hysteria manufactured by Dance and his crowd. They are being bullied for taking a position. Thankfully, we have taught them to understand the dynamic and they are empathetic to those who are upset and behaving badly.

By: Saddened, yet hopeful

Saddened, yet hopeful — Fri, 11 Nov 2016 21:30:40 +0000

A lot of young people of any ethnicity are saddened and concerned about the current political scene and social divisiveness in our nation right now. I’m hoping we can reach out to them so they don’t feel targeted by rhetoric–sending a message instead of peaceful coexistence and respect, and standing up always to hate speech and bullying.

By: Foamy

Foamy — Fri, 11 Nov 2016 16:14:42 +0000

When you work in a BCPS school and have children (white, black lgbtq) in your office in tears over the presidential election and reports that other students were ‘high fiving’ over Trump’s victory… that is really saying something about our country’s state of affairs. Dr. Dance’s ‘retweet’ should not be read into, it wasn’t even his comment. We need to support all the marginalized children, regardless of their race or ethnicity, Dr. Dance was not suggesting otherwise.

By: Concerned parent

Concerned parent — Fri, 11 Nov 2016 12:18:32 +0000

Unfortunately, the worthy goals of diversity and opportunities for equity are being used at BCPS to put every child on a laptop screen, many with ear phones on, isolated—and not as involved in the interactions that makes us realize how we are all part of the human race. The support being talked about regarding this tweet and elsewhere can only be accomplished by actual humans. All humans.

To make sure we are careful and thoughtful, look at how a Detroit school system’s “personalized learning” and digital programs exploited Detroit’s most vulnerable children:

http://www.aclumich.org/article/guyette-how-eaas-buzz-program-exploited-detroits-most-vulnerable-kids

“software has “been developed to be agnostic to instructional delivery and resource source, which means it can be used for virtual schools, blended instruction, distance learning, traditional instruction with differentiation, and online assessment.”

But in reality, what internal EAA documents reveal is the extent to which teachers and students were, over the course of two school years, used as whetstones to hone a badly flawed product being pitched as cutting-edge technology.”

By: Grrrr.

Grrrr. — Fri, 11 Nov 2016 03:23:50 +0000

His tweet is just fine. And meanwhile at my kid’s school, they are shutting down any political speech at all.