Girl's School and Gender Pronouns

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:NCS is really doing no better at handling this issue. The administration is beholden to the Glasgow Group and we’ve got minders at each level to monitor our wokeness.

Disagree. I think NCS has been practical and thoughtful in handling these issues. Why do you stay at a school that clearly you do not like or agree with? There are other schools that would better suit you.

[Anonymous]

I’ve seen some girl activities that do not change the main title but then have in the description that the program is for girls or non-cisgender youth. That allows those teens that originally identifies as girls but are having trouble with that label to stay in the program or school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NCS is really doing no better at handling this issue. The administration is beholden to the Glasgow Group and we’ve got minders at each level to monitor our wokeness.

Disagree. I think NCS has been practical and thoughtful in handling these issues. Why do you stay at a school that clearly you do not like or agree with? There are other schools that would better suit you.

+100 the constraint complaining is not healthy for them or their kids. Kids pick up on your cues and it makes stressed to know you dislike their school so much. Move on to another school if you are so unhappy with inclusion and kindness.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Well now we have LD and mentally disordered people taking a page from the LGBTQ activist manual so get ready for that wave of privilege and attention and quotas.
It’s just “thinking differently” so accommodate and comply.

This is offensive, ignorant and unnecessary.

Students with learning differences have been learning to quietly advocate for their needs for many years well before this gender fluidity phenom. Teachers who are trained to engage different kinds of learners actually fare better with neuro typical students since the teaching empowers all students (understanding how they learn best, engaging as many senses as possible to learn material, and managing time and materials in most effective ways.

Also many students with learning differences have very high IQs and it is better for society to be able to utilize their many gifts (such as lateral thinking, big picture thinking, creative problem solving) rather than to stigmatize them and squander their gifts.

+1,000

+1

You will only undermine the positions of those of us who argue for right to refer to girls as girls and pro female pronouns if you engage in negative foolish insults against students with learning differences. The IDEA Act was first introduced 40 years ago to protect the legal rights of students with learning differences to optimal education. Educating for Neurological diversity is not a Johnny Come Lately social trend.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So should we be ashamed of the word girls and women? We are doing more damage to ourselves as a sex and gender with allowing all this nonsense.

Ding ding ding.

No one has ever had much issue with "men" being a default and inclusive term, but suddenly being called a woman or a girl is a slur? Of course, being called a woman or a girl as a slur has a long history in some circles. It's not okay that women embrace misogyny just so their spoiled teens who want to be interesting don't call them "transphobic."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NCS is really doing no better at handling this issue. The administration is beholden to the Glasgow Group and we’ve got minders at each level to monitor our wokeness.

Disagree. I think NCS has been practical and thoughtful in handling these issues. Why do you stay at a school that clearly you do not like or agree with? There are other schools that would better suit you.

+100 the constraint complaining is not healthy for them or their kids. Kids pick up on your cues and it makes stressed to know you dislike their school so much. Move on to another school if you are so unhappy with inclusion and kindness.

It is neither inclusive nor kind to remove the word “girl” from a girls’ school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Well now we have LD and mentally disordered people taking a page from the LGBTQ activist manual so get ready for that wave of privilege and attention and quotas.
It’s just “thinking differently” so accommodate and comply.

This is offensive, ignorant and unnecessary.

Students with learning differences have been learning to quietly advocate for their needs for many years well before this gender fluidity phenom. Teachers who are trained to engage different kinds of learners actually fare better with neuro typical students since the teaching empowers all students (understanding how they learn best, engaging as many senses as possible to learn material, and managing time and materials in most effective ways.

Also many students with learning differences have very high IQs and it is better for society to be able to utilize their many gifts (such as lateral thinking, big picture thinking, creative problem solving) rather than to stigmatize them and squander their gifts.

+1,000

+1

You will only undermine the positions of those of us who argue for right to refer to girls as girls and pro female pronouns if you engage in negative foolish insults against students with learning differences. The IDEA Act was first introduced 40 years ago to protect the legal rights of students with learning differences to optimal education. Educating for Neurological diversity is not a Johnny Come Lately social trend.

The comment is not surprising. Privates don’t have to comply with IDEA and a lot of families agree with that ignorant PP, whether they admit it or not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Thank God it isn't Stone Ridge. I hope they stay off that track. We hope to enroll our daughter this year.

PS Because it is a school that goes as young as K, I sincerely doubt they would ever adopt this on a whole school level.

If you think this won't be an issue, you're so wrong.

There have been trans students at SR for several years now.

They ain't going anywhere.

I think it won't be an issue for now. Of course there are trans students there. That's not what is being discussed here. SR will hopefully draw the line where it makes sense. A school that only accepts female applicants is a girls school. You can't change that.

[Anonymous]

It is hard to believe we are at a place that we can’t refer to all girls schools as all girls.

[Anonymous]

Here’s my take:

It will only happen if/when all-girls schools in the very VERY liberal parts of the country start dropping “girls”. Holton is not going to stick their neck out.

Does anyone have examples of top girls schools in San Fran, NYC, Boston etc doing this?

[Anonymous]

many girls at Stone Ridge (where my daughter is enrolled) are demanding to be called he/him, they/them, and even it

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:many girls at Stone Ridge (where my daughter is enrolled) are demanding to be called he/him, they/them, and even it

Do the teachers and other students comply?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:many girls at Stone Ridge (where my daughter is enrolled) are demanding to be called he/him, they/them, and even it

How does “it” make anybody feel good?

[Anonymous]

You are all making something out of nothing. So what some students are expressing they think it should change and their advisor agrees. That’s not how things change if it does not have wide support which it doesn’t. I don’t think it should change but I know it won’t and I certainly am not going to jump on the hate bandwagon and use this as a reason to be against the people that think it should change.

Take a lesson from your religious books and be nice. No need to attack these kids or anyone else. A few parents at these schools are very right wing and I think they should go elsewhere if th etc don’t like their schools because all they do is bash their daughters’ school. Their daughters are aware and it makes them sad!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:many girls at Stone Ridge (where my daughter is enrolled) are demanding to be called he/him, they/them, and even it

How does “it” make anybody feel good?

Just bizarre.