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just can't relate to Potomac anymore
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Anonymous
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It's like everything is DEI all the time --to the exclusion of everything else.
I'm all for DEI investments, but its starting to feel like that's the only focus of the school. For everything. All the time. Every call. Every event. Every newsletter. Every communication. Every survey. The administration does not seem to talk about anything else with parents. They have 8+ people working on DEI for a 1000 student school. How about academics, extracurriculars, clubs (which are weak vis a vis other schools), athletics-- all areas that have holes and lack of focus while everything is funneled to DEI. The administration is down a rabbit hole on this one. Potoamc should keep up the great work on DEI-but it's one of many areas that make up school experience. Every conversation doesn't need to be about this. Parents and students do have other focus areas and interests. |
Anonymous
| My company is like this too and it’s driving me crazy. |
Anonymous
| Utterly bizarre. This would be a deal-breaker for me. Kids need a lot more than DEI to develop good ethical reasoning. |
Anonymous
 That’s absurd. Having that many dedicated roles creates incentives to invent problems to justify makework jobs.
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Anonymous
| It's the new modern moralism for the affluent classes. It's hypocritical to the extreme but I also sense we're peaking DEI, even post peaking. There's been some retreat elsewhere. The google Gemini disaster was a real eye opener for too many people. |
Anonymous
Same. Work is driving me crazy. |
Anonymous
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And how much is Potomac’s tuition going up next year, to fund these 8 (EIGHT???) administrators? |
Anonymous
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DEI is going the way of the dodo, people. It's just not a sustainable movement. My kids just ignore the assemblies, pep talks, emo-sessions. *Most* kids do. After a while, it will cease to be the virtue-signaling trendy thing and all these DEI offices will be reduced, then reabsorbed into other departments. So just bear with it for now. Or move. But don't worry about it. Your kids are probably royally ignoring every bit of it. |
Anonymous
Here’s hoping! |
Anonymous
This seems likely to be how this will play out, but it will be replaced by some different stylish “virtue signaling” thing. And because this is DC, which tries to rival Berkeley, CA in political correctness, that future new “virtue signaling” thing also will be wasted effort. 100% correct that a majority of students at any school will tune this out, in large part caused by the excessive messaging. |
Anonymous
And the goals of any school ought to be having high quality ethics school-wide and high quality ethical reasoning by students, rather than parroting the politically correct speech du jour. |
Anonymous
| It also will hurt enrollment. Go woke go broke applies to independent schools just like anything else. |
Anonymous
| This thread is giving me hope, both that DEI-overload is going to end and that there are other people who feel like me that DEI shouldn’t be as big a part of a child’s school life as it is currently is in many schools. |
Anonymous
| The DEI trolls are back. Left GDS and migrated over here. |
Anonymous
| And yet all of you were so completely on board with this just a few short years ago. Bragging about your school’s DEI initiative. Mocking schools that weren’t falling into lock step. And now, here you are complaining about it while your children learn what groupthink looks like. |