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Anonymous
What’s an affinity group? |
Anonymous
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OP — You need to distinguish between diversity and DEI programs.. they do not mean the same things. Although I’ve seen no evidence of privates backing off of either.
Diversity … Making an effort to have classes of different backgrounds .. does tend to be primarily race or Latino-based at most schools. If you really believe in this then it should include religion, view points, other ethnicities, languages, sexual orientation (for high school), gender presentation, and disabilities. Schools tend to have a narrow focus but have success within that too narrow range. Schools look at what the National Association of Independent Schools report. Of course, they can’t really build classes to maximize diversity ….there aren’t enough applicants, the schools need to ensure tuition dollars etc. And, of course, that’s part of the hypocrisy of pushing it. Inclusion … consciously socially engineering to take steps that all kids fee included. Nice ideas but often School's in execution. Equity .. this is the heart of DEI and where some families are starting to push back. It had no one definition. But many DEI consultants and “experts” promote the notion that equity means taking steps to ensure all groupings are racially diverse in proportion to the general population, even if those steps involve outright quotas or other discrimination against whites. This is equity preached byI. Kendi. Many DEI consultants teach that virtually all institutions are structurally racist, all white people are racist, and common standards are instruments if white supremacy. Homework, showing up to class on time, showing your work on a math problem … white supremacy. Ask any MCPS teacher who has had to sit through such mandatory trainings this year. This is what people are pushing back against. And it isn’t just “right wing” conservatives.. some very liberal people have been pushed out jobs for questioning this or refusing to participate in “trainings” requiring them to “confess” their privilege. It is the not an interest in whitewashing history, but in rejecting that all of history should be taught as a struggle based on race-related oppressors and oppressed. DEI in its extreme is an absurd extension of CRT, which for years we have heard is not taught in schools. |
Anonymous
No, nothing has changed and quality hasn’t either. Where do you even live? |
Anonymous
It’s called dispersity group now. Tom Wolfe had it right. |
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“Laurie piped up again. 'At State, everybody calls diversity dispersity. What happens is, everybody has their own clubs, their own signs, their own sections where they all sit in the dining hall--all the African Americans are over there? . . . and all the Asians sit over't these other tables? -- except for the Koreans? -- because they don't get along with the Japanese so they sit way over there? Everybody's dispersed into their own little groups -- and everybody's told to distrust everybody else? Everybody's told that everybody else is trying to screw them over--oops!' -- Laurie pulled a face and put her fingertips over her lips -- 'I'm sorry!' She rolled eyes and smiled. 'Anyway, the idea is, every other group is like prejudiced against your group, and no matter what they say, they're only out to take advantage of you, and you should have nothing to do with them -- unless your white, in which case all the others are not prejudiced against you, they're like totally right, because you really are a racist and everything, even if you don't know it? Everybody ends up dispersed into their own like turtle shells, suspicious of everybody else and being careful not to fraternize with them. Is it like that at Dupont?”
― Tom Wolfe, I am Charlotte Simmons |
Anonymous
This is great! Never heard of it but will buy it next weekend. Written in 2004. Prescient! |
Anonymous
| It’s not anti-diversity. DEI goes too far. |
Anonymous
| If only! |
Anonymous
| I won't name the school, but out of curiosity, I attended a school wide virtual DEI meeting this year. I wanted to see what all the discussion was about but was shocked to find that there were less than 20 people at the meeting for a school with 700 students. So while the school invests in staff and other resources to support the programming, the parents don't seem to be on board. I wonder if this is typical. |
Anonymous
What is it? |
Anonymous
| I am wondering, cynically, if private schools are now recognizing that after the Supreme Court ruling there is less of an advantage to being a minority applicant to college. Since a private school’s prestige is based largely on where their graduates go to college, they see less of a reason to recruit minority applicants. |
Anonymous
They could target first gen. Of course, it's a lot easier for a black doctor's kid to thrive at a rigorous private than a landscaper's kid who will also need 100% aid. I'd bet that professionals with foreign degrees (making their kids first gen by most definitions) become very popular with these schools. |
Anonymous
Timing. You generally don't get into these specifics until later in the process. In the case of the two schools, I would have unknowingly walked into and been affected by policy changes. I made this post back in September: https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1161229.page I do not want to be around with the Moms for Liberty crowd. There are plenty of parents who are susceptible to that ideology, and I want to be extra careful to avoid them. |
Anonymous
You are better off in MCPS or some other public school district. |
Anonymous
Where does your child attend? |