To think it's weird that our school only has pictures of white children on its website?

[BruhWhy]

Just that really. We live in an area that's increasingly ethnically diverse and my own children are mixed.

There is a mix of white, black, Asian and mixed children in every class, in every year.

They just updated their website and have taken lots of new pictures of pupils to put onto it, but they've chosen only white children.

I know it's not massively important in the grand scheme of things but it did make me sit there and think 'oh, this might have been a decision that was made' and it's made me feel a bit funny.

@EuromamaAussiekids

With all the current issues around covid and outbreaks School closures etc updating the website probably isn't top priority atm understandably

Presumably it is a priority since, as the OP says, they have just updated the website...

@EuromamaAussiekids

Websites are more important than ever as many people aren’t getting real life tours so the website is vital

@User128r7d

Bingo! I called it. Woke (and other terms) is usually the next word that follows once someone starts going on about certain 'annoyances'.

This is not news but may be to some, 'woke' started in the US as a racial context but other issues were later added to it and has now been bastardised by both people jumping on the wagon to scream 'woke' over any issue (They're called "Fake wokes" in some communities) and those who conveniently use it to shut down anything that may be of benefit to ethnic minorities, especially Black people. But hey anything to shut Black people/ethnic minorites up, eh?

The funny thing is that some of these people would argue that terms like Karen shouldn't be used at all (even though it has multiple uses besides "middle aged women", but that's what they want to hold onto) - fair enough - but can't seem to see the hypocrisy in insisting on using "woke" in the negative way when it has another use meant to be a positive stance.

Ironically, women who're fighting for women's rights - Feminists - are 'woke' in the descriptive sense of the word (woke to the issues women face, etc), but most won't see themselves that way since it's a convenient term to lump every other person who speaks up against injustice (besides women's rights, of course) together.

'Karen' also started in the US in a racial context. Plenty of people want to shut it down too.

Yes, I know. Although it's origin is said to be a draw between a racial incident involving a white woman named Karen (or someone offhandedly named Karen) and a man whose wife, Karen, took all he had in their divorce and he went on reddit to lament his fate with the title "Fuck you Karen".

Although many people here deny or don't know the racial context, it was made popular because of it, then it spread into other uses.