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w8liftinglady

(23,278 posts)
Thu Feb 9, 2012, 03:54 PM Feb 2012

Dallas ISD fifth grade boys are seeing Red Tails right now -- but girls were excluded

http://dallasisdblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2012/02/dallas-isd-fifth-grade-boys-ar.html

The Dallas school district took about 5,700 fifth-grade boys this morning to see a new movie about African-American fighter pilots in World War II, but female students were excluded.

Busloads of Dallas school children began arriving at the AMC Mesquite 30 theater around 10 a.m. this morning to watch Red Tails about the Tuskegee Airmen, a group of black American male pilots who flew missions in World War II. But girls were kept from seeing the movie.

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"Approximately 5,000 fifth grade boys in the district are watching Red Tails," he wrote in the email. "The film is about the Tuskegee Airmen, a group of African American pilots whose acts of bravery during World War II earned them the President Unit Citation in honor of their achievements."

He said the district paid for the $32,000 field trip with Title I federal funds, which are earmarked for educating low-income students, and that the district's Texas Education Agency monitor approved the field trip.

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Dahlander writes, "There is only so much available space at the movie theater, so the decision was made for boys to attend the movie. Girls stayed at school but principals were given the option to show them Akeelah and the Bee."
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Dallas ISD fifth grade boys are seeing Red Tails right now -- but girls were excluded (Original Post) w8liftinglady Feb 2012 OP
Wow. That's ugly. qb Feb 2012 #1
Well... that's interesting. redqueen Feb 2012 #2
Why couldn't they let the girls see the movie also. With that much money spent they could have southernyankeebelle Feb 2012 #3
boys get war movies. so they will join up when able nt msongs Feb 2012 #4
And these people are in charge of EDUCATING CHILDREN??? rocktivity Feb 2012 #5
Starting the descrimination young, eh DISD? ceile Feb 2012 #6
they could have kept them all at school and showed 'tuskegee airmen'. great film. eom ellenfl Feb 2012 #7
addendum: DoD :Women to serve closer to combat under new rules w8liftinglady Feb 2012 #8
You see the update on Ch 8 news? TEA says that they never got a request from DISD! rainbow4321 Feb 2012 #9
WTF?!?!?!? RainDog Feb 2012 #10
oh the irony.... if this weren't so sad, Bluerthanblue Feb 2012 #11

redqueen

(115,096 posts)
2. Well... that's interesting.
Thu Feb 9, 2012, 03:57 PM
Feb 2012

I hope we'll be hearing in days to come about the $32,000 field trip that the low-income girls will be going on.

 

southernyankeebelle

(11,304 posts)
3. Why couldn't they let the girls see the movie also. With that much money spent they could have
Thu Feb 9, 2012, 04:00 PM
Feb 2012

let the girls go also. They could have taken 2 days. That isn't fair. In my family if we all couldn't go then none of us went. Shame on the districts.

rocktivity

(44,555 posts)
5. And these people are in charge of EDUCATING CHILDREN???
Thu Feb 9, 2012, 04:03 PM
Feb 2012

It wouldn't have cost $32K to rent a couple of DVDs and some HD screens. ALL the kids could have seen BOTH movies!


rocktivity

w8liftinglady

(23,278 posts)
8. addendum: DoD :Women to serve closer to combat under new rules
Thu Feb 9, 2012, 04:31 PM
Feb 2012
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57373845/women-to-serve-closer-to-combat-under-new-rules/

(AP) WASHINGTON - Pentagon rules are catching up a bit with reality after a decade when women in the U.S. military have served, fought and died on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan.


On Thursday, the Pentagon is recommending to Congress that women be allowed to serve in more jobs closer to the front lines. The change would open up about 14,000 additional jobs to women.


According to defense officials, the new rules are expected to continue the long-held prohibition that prevents women from serving as infantry, armor and special operations forces. But they will formally allow women to serve in other jobs at the battalion level, which until now had been considered too close to combat.


In reality, however, the necessities of war have already propelled women to the front lines — often as medics, military police or intelligence officers. So, while a woman couldn't be assigned as an infantryman in a battalion or in a company going out on patrol, she could fly the helicopter supporting the unit, or move in to provide medical aid if troops were injured.


The officials said the new rules will formally allow women to be assigned to a battalion and serve in jobs such as medics, intelligence officers, police or communications officers. The changes would have the greatest effect on the Army and Marine Corps, which ban women from more jobs than the Navy and Air Force do, largely because of the infantry positions.

rainbow4321

(9,974 posts)
9. You see the update on Ch 8 news? TEA says that they never got a request from DISD!
Thu Feb 9, 2012, 09:16 PM
Feb 2012

So DISD officials are lying thru their collective teeth when they say that it was a TEA approved outing.
This just a week after DISD was given a written warning from TEA that if they continued to misuse their TEA funding they would LOSE almost $80 million in funding!!!!

Bluerthanblue

(13,669 posts)
11. oh the irony.... if this weren't so sad,
Thu Feb 9, 2012, 09:36 PM
Feb 2012

it would be funny.

Taking a select group of kids to see a movie about the heroic actions of a group who were subjected to discrimination.

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