White Privilege Conference?

This article from the Times. Not sure if many folks had heard about this, I read about it on a conservative blog. I am very disappointed the money came from the Small Learning Communities grant because I don't get the connection between this convention and SLC. The district may have misstepped here and it's one more problem for Ms Hollins and her department.

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Anonymous said…
Has Caprice Hollins done anything productive in her position? Anything that's hit the classroom in a positive way? She embodies the kind of bureaucracy that serves itself and remains totally unanswerable to the constituents it's supposed to serve. Her salary could tutor a lot of students. WenG
4/27/07, 9:09 AM
Charlie Mas said…
Caprice Hollins has been in charge of family and community engagement for year and has not done a single thing to advance those elements of the District's Strategic Framework.

I think it is ironic that the person in charge of family engagement regards family engagement as an indicator of White privilege (and therefore contemptible).

Only now, a year after she has been in the job and seven months after the promotion of the Strategic Framework, has she started to hire a Family and Community Engagement Coordinator who will be responsible for the family engagement work. Whenever anyone from the District goes on about how much they value family involvement and engagement, remember these facts.

As for the mis-appropriation of grant dollars - the District does it all the time. The OSPI and the Board of Education never mind because they are all part of the culture of public K-12 education, which is a culture of no accountability or enforcement. The State Auditor, on the other hand, is part of the real world, which is rife with accountability and enforcement.

In answer to the question posed in the previous post, "Has Caprice Hollins done anything productive in her position? Anything that's hit the classroom in a positive way?" I would have to say no.

She does a ton of work on cultural competency, but I don't see what value that has. Could there be a school with more cultural competency than the African-American Academy? I don't think so. Yet despite all of the cultural competency there, the school is at risk of takeover by the state due to persistently low test scores. I don't think AAA has EVER met AYP.
4/27/07, 9:29 AM
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