Would you pull your kids if you found out something offensive in your school's history?

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They can write about their take on this in their college application essay.

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How does the school talk about its history? How do its history class talk about that era? I would be concerned that the school is inclined to whitewash history, which would make me pull my child because that's not the education I want for them.

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Anonymous wrote:How does the school talk about its history? How do its history class talk about that era? I would be concerned that the school is inclined to whitewash history, which would make me pull my child because that's not the education I want for them.

What school talks about their history?

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They can write about their take on this in their college application essay.

Don’t do this. OP purposely chose this school.

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They can write about their take on this in their college application essay.

Don’t do this. OP purposely chose this school.

Do you always assume the worst of people?

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They can write about their take on this in their college application essay.

Don’t do this. OP purposely chose this school.

Do you always assume the worst of people?

What would the kids write that isn’t going to come off as incredibly racist/classist toward the local public school?

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I had to swallow hard on the issue of the proximity of Woodrow Wilson’s rotting corpse but I guess I knew about that going in. That monster should be dug up and put somewhere outside of a house of worship.

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Anonymous wrote:Things change. None of those people are involved. I wouldn’t think twice but I also would have looked into the school my kids attend far more than you appear to have done. How did you NOT know? I typically research things before entrusting my kids to them and spending tens of thousands.

Yeah, it’s hard to miss. Here’s the Wikipedia page for Hampton Roads Academy in Newport News: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hampton_Roads_Academy

“The school was founded in 1959, in the context of massive resistance, as a segregation academy.”[3]

“Hampton Roads Academy was founded in 1959 as a segregation academy with a student body of sixty all white students in grades seven through eleven.[3] The school's founder, Hampton physician Russell von Lehn Buxton, who became the first chairman of the Board of Trustees, explained that the school was established to avoid the "limitations and constraints imposed on the public school system."[4]

That was 80 years ago. That’s like op’s parents pulling her out of school when she was a kid for something that happened in 1900. It’s absurd.

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Anonymous wrote:How does the school talk about its history? How do its history class talk about that era? I would be concerned that the school is inclined to whitewash history, which would make me pull my child because that's not the education I want for them.

What school talks about their history?

Many schools. GDS's history as an anti-segregationist institution is a key part of its mission. Sidwell, which was late to integrate, has begun to grapple with that history. https://www.sidwell.edu/about/history

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Anonymous wrote:Things change. None of those people are involved. I wouldn’t think twice but I also would have looked into the school my kids attend far more than you appear to have done. How did you NOT know? I typically research things before entrusting my kids to them and spending tens of thousands.

It's the best-rated school in the area and was highly recommended by the transient crowd we hang around with (which explains why THEY didn't appear to know). Thought we couldn't go wrong.

“Best” by what metrics?

Graduation and college attendance rates, plus reading scores. They're abysmal in the local public schools (85% 4-year graduation rate and 30% of 3rd graders reading at grade level).

Private schools don’t do reading assessments so you likely don’t know the reading levels. Also, since is a private school with families of privileged, you aren’t really comparing apples to apples. Do you really think sending your kids to a public school with some kids that are economically disadvantaged would somehow not allow them to read at grade level?

Did you not Google the school before you cut them a check?

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Anonymous wrote:Things change. None of those people are involved. I wouldn’t think twice but I also would have looked into the school my kids attend far more than you appear to have done. How did you NOT know? I typically research things before entrusting my kids to them and spending tens of thousands.

Yeah, it’s hard to miss. Here’s the Wikipedia page for Hampton Roads Academy in Newport News: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hampton_Roads_Academy

“The school was founded in 1959, in the context of massive resistance, as a segregation academy.”[3]

“Hampton Roads Academy was founded in 1959 as a segregation academy with a student body of sixty all white students in grades seven through eleven.[3] The school's founder, Hampton physician Russell von Lehn Buxton, who became the first chairman of the Board of Trustees, explained that the school was established to avoid the "limitations and constraints imposed on the public school system."[4]

That was 80 years ago. That’s like op’s parents pulling her out of school when she was a kid for something that happened in 1900. It’s absurd.

Buxton stayed on the schools Board of Trustees until 1998.

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They can write about their take on this in their college application essay.

Don’t do this. OP purposely chose this school.

Do you always assume the worst of people?

Welcome to DCUM.

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Anonymous wrote:Things change. None of those people are involved. I wouldn’t think twice but I also would have looked into the school my kids attend far more than you appear to have done. How did you NOT know? I typically research things before entrusting my kids to them and spending tens of thousands.

It's the best-rated school in the area and was highly recommended by the transient crowd we hang around with (which explains why THEY didn't appear to know). Thought we couldn't go wrong.

“Best” by what metrics?

Graduation and college attendance rates, plus reading scores. They're abysmal in the local public schools (85% 4-year graduation rate and 30% of 3rd graders reading at grade level).

Private schools don’t do reading assessments so you likely don’t know the reading levels. Also, since is a private school with families of privileged, you aren’t really comparing apples to apples. Do you really think sending your kids to a public school with some kids that are economically disadvantaged would somehow not allow them to read at grade level?

Did you not Google the school before you cut them a check?

You're really telling a parent to CHOOSE the district with those numbers?

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Anonymous wrote:Things change. None of those people are involved. I wouldn’t think twice but I also would have looked into the school my kids attend far more than you appear to have done. How did you NOT know? I typically research things before entrusting my kids to them and spending tens of thousands.

Yeah, it’s hard to miss. Here’s the Wikipedia page for Hampton Roads Academy in Newport News: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hampton_Roads_Academy

“The school was founded in 1959, in the context of massive resistance, as a segregation academy.”[3]

“Hampton Roads Academy was founded in 1959 as a segregation academy with a student body of sixty all white students in grades seven through eleven.[3] The school's founder, Hampton physician Russell von Lehn Buxton, who became the first chairman of the Board of Trustees, explained that the school was established to avoid the "limitations and constraints imposed on the public school system."[4]

That was 80 years ago. That’s like op’s parents pulling her out of school when she was a kid for something that happened in 1900. It’s absurd.

Buxton stayed on the schools Board of Trustees until 1998.

That was still 25 years ago. I wouldn’t make a decision about my kids schooling today based on one board member from 25 years ago.

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Anonymous wrote:Things change. None of those people are involved. I wouldn’t think twice but I also would have looked into the school my kids attend far more than you appear to have done. How did you NOT know? I typically research things before entrusting my kids to them and spending tens of thousands.

It's the best-rated school in the area and was highly recommended by the transient crowd we hang around with (which explains why THEY didn't appear to know). Thought we couldn't go wrong.

“Best” by what metrics?

Graduation and college attendance rates, plus reading scores. They're abysmal in the local public schools (85% 4-year graduation rate and 30% of 3rd graders reading at grade level).

Private schools don’t do reading assessments so you likely don’t know the reading levels. Also, since is a private school with families of privileged, you aren’t really comparing apples to apples. Do you really think sending your kids to a public school with some kids that are economically disadvantaged would somehow not allow them to read at grade level?

Did you not Google the school before you cut them a check?

You're really telling a parent to CHOOSE the district with those numbers?

Yes. Lots of kids go to the “district with those numbers.” Is your kid going to put on a college app that they were too good and too special to go school with THOSE KIDS, so they had “no choice” to attend a segregation academy instead?