NYC private school requiring prospective parents to write essay on DEIA

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Still can’t get over the hypocrisy of $50,000+ per year schools teaching DEI. Honestly, if you can’t put your money where your mouth is, stay quiet. The worst thing is, these parents and the students may actually walk out of their thinking they are truly inclusive and equitable. It’s the same IMO as those who go to church every Sunday, but break every commandment Monday thru Friday, and twice on Saturday.

What would that look like?

Send the kids to the public school assigned to your 95% white, multimillion $ homes neighborhood !
(Sarcasm)

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:C'mon people, we all know it's about virtue signaling. Brearley isn't actually about to practice DEI in its admissions rubrics and neither are any of the other privates. These DEI "initiatives" are just to cover their A$$es against any potential charges.

I don’t know about Brearly, but many privates have pushed forward with increasing diversity and adding scholarships.

Sure but if you really support DE&I, then you’d send your kids to public school. End of story.

The private my DD (AA/White) attended pre-K through 1st had more children of color and more economic diversity than the public she was supposed to attend.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:C'mon people, we all know it's about virtue signaling. Brearley isn't actually about to practice DEI in its admissions rubrics and neither are any of the other privates. These DEI "initiatives" are just to cover their A$$es against any potential charges.

I don’t know about Brearly, but many privates have pushed forward with increasing diversity and adding scholarships.

Sure but if you really support DE&I, then you’d send your kids to public school. End of story.

Our private is considerably more diverse, both racially and socioeconomically, than our local public.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:C'mon people, we all know it's about virtue signaling. Brearley isn't actually about to practice DEI in its admissions rubrics and neither are any of the other privates. These DEI "initiatives" are just to cover their A$$es against any potential charges.

I don’t know about Brearly, but many privates have pushed forward with increasing diversity and adding scholarships.

Sure but if you really support DE&I, then you’d send your kids to public school. End of story.

Our private is considerably more diverse, both racially and socioeconomically, than our local public.

Because you have chosen to live in a white, wealthy neighborhood.

[Anonymous]

The best way to show you are committed to DEIA is not live in a bubble of other million dollar homes and don't send your kid to a $60k + private school. If one was really committed to DEIA, they would live in a mixed housing type of neighborhood. They would send their kids to the local public schools that would reflect the makeup of their mixed housing neighborhood.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Any DC privates doing this yet?

Prospective parents at The Brearley School, an all-girls school on the Upper East Side, are informed on their application that “parents are expected to attend two diversity, equity, inclusion and antiracism (DEIA) workshops per school year,” and write a 500-word essay demonstrating their fealty to those values.

https://nypost.com/2022/10/22/elite-nyc-prep-schools-aim-woke-indoctrination-at-parents-too/

So myopic.

Meanwhile kids are counting on their fingers to do math for years and can’t spell whatsoever.

Did you see the writing samples posted in the classrooms and hallways of 3rd and 4th grade lower school classrooms? Looked the same as the first graders work.
That’s all we needed to know at the Open House tour. That school has lost its way due to over focusing on its trendy (in certain bubbles) political mission.
It was strikingly different from the work posted at other schools. Sad that some “top schools” have such low academic expectations for their students.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The best way to show you are committed to DEIA is not live in a bubble of other million dollar homes and don't send your kid to a $60k + private school. If one was really committed to DEIA, they would live in a mixed housing type of neighborhood. They would send their kids to the local public schools that would reflect the makeup of their mixed housing neighborhood.

Make that the bar for caring about DEIA and find yourself with the world’s smallest support base. Is there someone who has done all of that out of support for DEIA? Probably. And how effective has that been? Maybe for them and their child it’s created internal change, so, I’d argue not much.

Schools are trying to educate in mass. So let them. Private schools educate children of some of the most powerful people in the world. Make the parents take a class or two if the schools think they can do it

[Anonymous]

Why is this offensive - if you don't like the values of diversity, equity and inclusion, you don't have to go to that private school. I don't understand why the NY Post or some of these posters think this is a "gotcha" like the school is doing something they shouldn't and were found out.

Whether the school is actually honoring its own principles is a different question but having the seminars doesn't make it worse - this is a totally disingenuous complaint and a logical fallacy which we as a society need to stop. If the seminars bother you I am sure achieving actual DEI goals would be even more upsetting

[Anonymous]

I don’t think attending seminars is likely to have a meaningful effect but this is private school and they are welcome to require parents swear allegiance to cluthu if they like! If parents don’t like it they should pick a different school!

[Anonymous]

More Identity labels mantra to keep hammering in to the kids 24/7 and parents. It’s already backfiring.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why is this offensive - if you don't like the values of diversity, equity and inclusion, you don't have to go to that private school. I don't understand why the NY Post or some of these posters think this is a "gotcha" like the school is doing something they shouldn't and were found out.

Whether the school is actually honoring its own principles is a different question but having the seminars doesn't make it worse - this is a totally disingenuous complaint and a logical fallacy which we as a society need to stop. If the seminars bother you I am sure achieving actual DEI goals would be even more upsetting

It’s the Maoist struggle session vibe that’s upsetting. Helping kids of different backgrounds get a good education would be awesome. I fail to see how having parents write an essay about their commitment to that goal affects anything.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why is this offensive - if you don't like the values of diversity, equity and inclusion, you don't have to go to that private school. I don't understand why the NY Post or some of these posters think this is a "gotcha" like the school is doing something they shouldn't and were found out.

Whether the school is actually honoring its own principles is a different question but having the seminars doesn't make it worse - this is a totally disingenuous complaint and a logical fallacy which we as a society need to stop. If the seminars bother you I am sure achieving actual DEI goals would be even more upsetting

It’s the Maoist struggle session vibe that’s upsetting. Helping kids of different backgrounds get a good education would be awesome. I fail to see how having parents write an essay about their commitment to that goal affects anything.

It’s pure CYA.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Still can’t get over the hypocrisy of $50,000+ per year schools teaching DEI. Honestly, if you can’t put your money where your mouth is, stay quiet. The worst thing is, these parents and the students may actually walk out of their thinking they are truly inclusive and equitable. It’s the same IMO as those who go to church every Sunday, but break every commandment Monday thru Friday, and twice on Saturday.

What would that look like?

Sending your kids to public schools in NYC and donating some money fir the DEI causes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why is this offensive - if you don't like the values of diversity, equity and inclusion, you don't have to go to that private school. I don't understand why the NY Post or some of these posters think this is a "gotcha" like the school is doing something they shouldn't and were found out.

Whether the school is actually honoring its own principles is a different question but having the seminars doesn't make it worse - this is a totally disingenuous complaint and a logical fallacy which we as a society need to stop. If the seminars bother you I am sure achieving actual DEI goals would be even more upsetting

It’s the Maoist struggle session vibe that’s upsetting. Helping kids of different backgrounds get a good education would be awesome. I fail to see how having parents write an essay about their commitment to that goal affects anything.

It’s pure CYA.

Parents also write essays about their interests in various schools. They can just not write the essays.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why is this offensive - if you don't like the values of diversity, equity and inclusion, you don't have to go to that private school. I don't understand why the NY Post or some of these posters think this is a "gotcha" like the school is doing something they shouldn't and were found out.

Whether the school is actually honoring its own principles is a different question but having the seminars doesn't make it worse - this is a totally disingenuous complaint and a logical fallacy which we as a society need to stop. If the seminars bother you I am sure achieving actual DEI goals would be even more upsetting

It’s the Maoist struggle session vibe that’s upsetting. Helping kids of different backgrounds get a good education would be awesome. I fail to see how having parents write an essay about their commitment to that goal affects anything.

It’s pure CYA.

Parents also write essays about their interests in various schools. They can just not write the essays.

That’s why it is pure CYA for the schools. They can advertise it and point to it when challenged about their philosophy, admissions policies, etc. But they won’t enforce it and it won’t change anything. Meaningless theatre.