Anti-diversity trends.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I believe it. Our school has affinity group pizza parties during lunch but for only Black students. In the beginning it was also attracting some white and Latino students who wanted to have pizza with their Black friends and then an explicit email went out outlining how the school defines persons of color. It was an actual list of skin colors. It was quite shocking. What a missed opportunity. If POC are having unique it seems like it we benefit everyone for white kids or other POC that are not Black to understand what those issues are so that they can be In the end the kids viewed it as the Black kids got a pizza party and nobody else did.

Name the school or you are lying.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I believe it. Our school has affinity group pizza parties during lunch but for only Black students. In the beginning it was also attracting some white and Latino students who wanted to have pizza with their Black friends and then an explicit email went out outlining how the school defines persons of color. It was an actual list of skin colors. It was quite shocking. What a missed opportunity. If POC are having unique it seems like it we benefit everyone for white kids or other POC that are not Black to understand what those issues are so that they can be In the end the kids viewed it as the Black kids got a pizza party and nobody else did.

Name the school or you are lying.

That’s terrible if true. We are at NCS and I believe all are invited and included. All events are put in the bulletin. It is very inclusive.

[Anonymous]

The only people who want to take DEI out of our school and who were freaking out about affinity groups was a tiny, vocal group of white, Christian, hetero, rich families. At one point they got so loud and insidious about it that the entire school community felt like the opinions of those people defined the school, and it really tore people apart.

The administration, in partnership with a few parents with social capital, got on top of the situation and carefully leaked the information that it was only 3 families in a student body of 450 who were continually seeding this anti-DEI and affinity group discord. Those families hadn't even re-enrolled last spring when they began their anti-DEI campaign. As soon as they were gone and the fall semester began, the conversations stopped. Student-led affinity groups are carrying on just fine and DEIJB continues to be a key component of curriculum, admissions, and community life.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

Typical. At our school, it's the same 20 people at DEI meetings, special speakers focused on parenting topics, state of the school nights led by the HOS, parent book club meetings, parent association meetings, etc.

It's at the point where I know exactly who I'll see when I go to any school event that doesn't involve a sport. People just don't care about anything. It's not a specific disinterest in DEI. I've gotten to know my fellow joiner parents really well, though!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The only people who want to take DEI out of our school and who were freaking out about affinity groups was a tiny, vocal group of white, Christian, hetero, rich families. At one point they got so loud and insidious about it that the entire school community felt like the opinions of those people defined the school, and it really tore people apart.

The administration, in partnership with a few parents with social capital, got on top of the situation and carefully leaked the information that it was only 3 families in a student body of 450 who were continually seeding this anti-DEI and affinity group discord. Those families hadn't even re-enrolled last spring when they began their anti-DEI campaign. As soon as they were gone and the fall semester began, the conversations stopped. Student-led affinity groups are carrying on just fine and DEIJB continues to be a key component of curriculum, admissions, and community life.

I suspect this is true my my kid's school, too. I wish the administration would take this tack instead of catering to the loud rich white right-wing people

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Anonymous wrote:I can't imagine any co-ed DC school moving away from DEI: Sidwell, GDS, Maret, Field, WIS, etc. Maybe consider coed?

Very few of them really embrace DEI, especially the socioeconomic aspect of DEI.

I’m so sick of hearing this. Most schools have at least 20% of kids on financial aid. My kid’s school has over 25% financial aid. We full pay $56,000 and donate about 50k a year. How much more would you like people to pay so your kid can get a free ride? It’s not a nonprofit FFS.

You may be sick of hearing it but that doesn’t make it any less true. You pay at least $55k/yr. That means your school is not socioeconomically diverse. It’s just not possible. That’s what you are choosing.

I say 1/4 of the class on financial aid is plenty of economic diversity. But I actually don’t care. I grew up LMC and first gen. I’m not going to apologize for sending my kid to a private. Especially because I’m sure you probably grew up with more money than me, went to better college, and are now acting like you have a right to dictate what I do with my money - or worse jealous because you can’t afford tuition to private.

When financial aid is available to families making 200k a year, it's not evidence of economic diversity. And no one is dictating, we're mocking the idea of a school charging 50k a year pretending to care about diversity

NP. So you only think a mix of the extremely rich and extremely poor constitutes “economic diversity?”

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Anonymous wrote: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.

Typical. At our school, it's the same 20 people at DEI meetings, special speakers focused on parenting topics, state of the school nights led by the HOS, parent book club meetings, parent association meetings, etc.

It's at the point where I know exactly who I'll see when I go to any school event that doesn't involve a sport. People just don't care about anything. It's not a specific disinterest in DEI. I've gotten to know my fellow joiner parents really well, though!

Why should parents attend these events? It’s great if there are parents who want to be involved but the school is for their children, not them. If both parents are working, going to a school event is probably the last thing they want or need.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I believe it. Our school has affinity group pizza parties during lunch but for only Black students. In the beginning it was also attracting some white and Latino students who wanted to have pizza with their Black friends and then an explicit email went out outlining how the school defines persons of color. It was an actual list of skin colors. It was quite shocking. What a missed opportunity. If POC are having unique it seems like it we benefit everyone for white kids or other POC that are not Black to understand what those issues are so that they can be In the end the kids viewed it as the Black kids got a pizza party and nobody else did.

Name the school or you are lying.

I am PP. Please stop calling people liars. Nobody is giving the name of their school on this message board. I was being honest with what I said. My kids have been at a private k-12 since Kindergarten and they are now in high school. A lot of parents and kids feel that there were no major divides in the grade prior to the major DEIB push and affinity lists and then the kids separated into racially divided groups. Kids who don't want to join affinity groups are pressured by peers.

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Anonymous wrote:I smell a troll.

Billy Goats Gruff!

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Anonymous wrote:I believe it. Our school has affinity group pizza parties during lunch but for only Black students. In the beginning it was also attracting some white and Latino students who wanted to have pizza with their Black friends and then an explicit email went out outlining how the school defines persons of color. It was an actual list of skin colors. It was quite shocking. What a missed opportunity. If POC are having unique it seems like it we benefit everyone for white kids or other POC that are not Black to understand what those issues are so that they can be In the end the kids viewed it as the Black kids got a pizza party and nobody else did.

Name the school or you are lying.

That’s terrible if true. We are at NCS and I believe all are invited and included. All events are put in the bulletin. It is very inclusive.

Nothing about NCS is inclusive.

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Anonymous wrote:I can't imagine any co-ed DC school moving away from DEI: Sidwell, GDS, Maret, Field, WIS, etc. Maybe consider coed?

Very few of them really embrace DEI, especially the socioeconomic aspect of DEI.

I’m so sick of hearing this. Most schools have at least 20% of kids on financial aid. My kid’s school has over 25% financial aid. We full pay $56,000 and donate about 50k a year. How much more would you like people to pay so your kid can get a free ride? It’s not a nonprofit FFS.

You may be sick of hearing it but that doesn’t make it any less true. You pay at least $55k/yr. That means your school is not socioeconomically diverse. It’s just not possible. That’s what you are choosing.

I say 1/4 of the class on financial aid is plenty of economic diversity. But I actually don’t care. I grew up LMC and first gen. I’m not going to apologize for sending my kid to a private. Especially because I’m sure you probably grew up with more money than me, went to better college, and are now acting like you have a right to dictate what I do with my money - or worse jealous because you can’t afford tuition to private.

When financial aid is available to families making 200k a year, it's not evidence of economic diversity. And no one is dictating, we're mocking the idea of a school charging 50k a year pretending to care about diversity

NP. So you only think a mix of the extremely rich and extremely poor constitutes “economic diversity?”

What “extremely poor”?

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Anonymous wrote:For every DEI administrator or consultant eliminated, each school can add one financial aid slot. I want the best and brightest admitted, regardless of melanin content or socioeconomic circumstances. The recent push for post-modern intersectionality at the primary and secondary school level has been a grift foisted on well-meaning liberal parents by charlatans. All it has done is radicalize white boys who are tired of being told they are terrible humans, and taken away slots for bright kids whose tuition is now paying for guilt-assuaging bureaucrats. DEI needs to die, permanently, and we need to get back to truly liberal principles.

+1 Agree

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DEI, the biggest grift in American history.

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Anonymous wrote:DEI, the biggest grift in American history.

+1. Yet another experiment in education in America, cycling in and cycling out.

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Anonymous wrote:DEI, the biggest grift in American history.

No, that honor belongs to private school education in Northern Va.