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[quote=Anonymous]OP- you aren't alone. There are a lot of things Ive been impressed with (referrals to the school psych for loneliness, excellent pullout structure to right-size learning), I think the teachers are mostly great (WAY better education than Key FWIW which my kids also attended). But for whatever reason they can't even seem to write a single personalized line on a child in a report card. I know they care about these kids, As a parent, that matters to me. You have 25 kids, write one line. Additionally, the culture is SO equity-focused that (for fear of "not checking my privilege") I have avoided on numerous occasions voicing concerns about my child being harassed and hit by other kids, simply bc they are POC. Multiple repeat offenders that bite, hit, grope, use wildly inappropriate language. My kid will be ok, so I swallow it. The Fistbook debacle asking young children to identify and write down the racists in their family...the Trans posters in the Kindergarten hall reminding kids who can't read or even comprehend yet that "everyone gets to choose if they are a boy or a girl or both or neither or something else"...the teachers who CONTINUE to mask. There is a way to teach children to be good human beings without the self-flagellating kabuki. As a neighborhood parent, it feels like there is an abnormal amount of energy placed on things that -- in the scheme of elementary education --don't matter. My kids can't tell time and they don't know the months in the year. They don't know the states on the east coast, but they will learn about American Revolution mainly from the perspective of indigenous populations. I'm not incensed, but I am indifferent to what is supposedly the finest ES in the city. I won't miss it, and I won't give money until they get their priorities in check. But then again, I am an outlier in a neighborhood of "In this house we believe"ers. [/quote]
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