Recent comments in /f/springfieldMO

armenia4ever t1_j9z4bkx wrote

  1. Is it actually interruption , or did she deviate from the expected/approved discourse that these types of sessions have?

"The complaints alleged Mohammadkhani challenged a statement made by Marquisa "Keke" Rover — director of diversity, equity, and inclusion at Burrell"

'Mohammadkhani said the allegation that she disrupted the session on mental health is not true. "Your information is incorrect. I made a comment, same as the other board member in the room."'

The other board member who was there, Thomas-Tate who is also on the board wasn't actually there.

From Tate: " If Maryam wants to spout off at me at board meetings or other board members or the superintendent, we're all adults," Thomas-Tate said. "But to come to the students' session, this was not a community session, and to disrupt that setting, where the students were being very vulnerable ... was not helpful at all or relevant to that particular moment. It was egregious."

She made one comment from what this story says. ONE comment - and it was deemed to be a massive interruption. That sounds a bit sus. What did she actually say? No one appears to know or is telling.

  1. They are literally both "minorities". Why can one of them dictate what these struggle sessions are about and what is discussed vs the other?

Also Horton wasn't even there. " In the email, Horton said the session — which she was not in — was expected to be a "safe space for students to acknowledge racial trauma based on their lived experiences."

Very specific idea of a safe space that doesn't include the other minority actually there, Mohammadkhani, being able to say anything. No expression of lived experience for her.

  1. Horton is the one blowing this all up. "Horton, a member of the local NAACP who presented on civic engagement, emailed the school board early Friday and forwarded the message to the News-Leader."

She's helping to dogpile another minority who didn't agree and said something she doesn't deem permissible. Oh and that's perfectly fine to silence Mohammadkhani's lived experience with the usual BS. Horton appears to be one of these types:

"As a side note, non-Christians can practice religious bigotry, women can be misogynistic, and people of color can uphold white supremacist ideals that are dismissive of individuals who experience marginalization especially from people in positions of power; and minors are particularly vulnerable to this kind of treatment, but often do not recognize it or talk about it, but in this case SPS students reported it."

So basically if you are a minority, you better have the right views on this subject otherwise it's internalized oppression, so shut the fuck up. Of course, pseudo CRT stuff that isn't technically CRT, but has all sorts of its ingredients sprinkled in.

So.....

Remember who's running for school board. I sure am.

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the_honeyman t1_j9z0fs1 wrote

Lmao you're a real piece of work. The reason homeless services go on the north side is because we haven't lost all semblance of humanity up here while still pretending to be better than everyone else. Keep your pretentious ass and your rose smelling bullshit far away from the actual human beings who just want to help.

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the_honeyman t1_j9z01df wrote

We want them to be treated like human beings. Period. Your exaggerated, condescending attempts to paint people who want other people to be treated like people are as transparent as your attempts to make advocates out as naive idealists.

Go peddle your bullshit somewhere else, or come be a part of the solution. As it stands, you're the dude standing in the middle of the road bitching about cars wanting special treatment.

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MountainTomato9292 t1_j9yyru6 wrote

In the article, it says that the kids were doing an exercise where they closed their eyes, and anyone who had experienced racial trauma was asked to raise their hand. She interrupted in the moment commenting that it was only “part of the room,” and the students started looking around irritated, saying things like “what does it matter if it was only 10 people, I raised my hand”. I’m not commenting on the veracity of any of this, just telling you what the article itself said.

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laffingriver t1_j9ykdw7 wrote

sounds like the students lodged the complaints because she wasted their time and interrupted their event.

arent board members usually mandated to make decisions but otherwise keep out of the day to day business? why is a board member directly involved?

when i was in school i never once had an interaction with a school board member.

micromanagers are the worst.

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