This is not satire. This is real. This is my alma mater.
This is what people are paying tens of thousands of dollars for.
This is what kids are going in to debt for.
These are the people who will be teaching in the public schools and, God help us, private and even some Christian schools in the years ahead.
This is insanity.
This is evil.
Bold mine.
An upcoming Michigan State University conference for educators will separate attendees between ‘White Folx’ and ‘People of Color.’
The annual Spring Conference on Teaching, Learning, and Student Success is adding ‘affinity group’ sessions, where attendees will be separated to “provide spaces for people to work within their own identity groups.”
“To advance racial equity, there is work for white people and people of color to do separately and together,” the invitation states. For white attendees, “an affinity group provides time and space to work explicitly and intentionally on understanding white culture and white privilege and to increase one’s critical analysis around these concepts.”
The separate group "for people of color...is a place to work with peers to address the impact of racism, to interrupt experiences of internalized racism, and to create a space for healing and working for individual and collective liberation.”
MSU explicitly reiterates, “This is not the opportunity for white folx to engage in the POC affinity space and vice versa.”
The conference will be held virtually May 4-7, 2021. Keynote speakers for ‘affinity group’ sessions include MSU social worker Lisa Laughman and associate diversity dean Marita Gilbert.
Diversity and race sessions of the conference include: “Imagining & Creating Anti-racist Approaches to Learning & Teaching,” “Crip Methodologies in Feminist Theory as Anti-Racist Pedagogy,” and “Using Crip Theory to Foster Accessible Teaching and Learning Practices.”
Crip theory includes “queer perspectives and practices” and has “been deployed to resist the contemporary spectacle of able-bodied heteronormativity,” according to Robert McRuer in Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability.
Other sessions highlight teaching methods amid online classes, the effect of online courses, and student trauma.
One session argues for “Making the shift to ungrading,” where grades are not used to assess student comprehension.
The ‘affinity group’ sessions are public and “participants [are asked] to opt into the affinity group that aligns with their racial identity.”
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Did I mention recently that my alma mater is dead to me? I thought it was dead, but now it's even deader.
It's so dead to me I'm going to spend extra money to get a regular license plate and get rid of my MSU vanity plate.
I'm embarrassed to even be associated with the dumpster fire it has become. {blackemo}:crazy:
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