Anti-diversity trends.

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Public is happy to take anyone! Go public

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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: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

I don't think it is a few at our school. Our annual parental DEI meeting was not well attended at all. The majority of parents think it is wasteful use of staff and resources. In fact, there were very few POC in that meeting, which was also quite a surprise.

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Back to the original question, I second SSSAS.

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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.

Yeah right. Talk about “things that didn’t happen” and “name the school or you’re lying”.

We are neither Christian nor White and cannot stand this DEI nonsense.

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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.

Which school is this?

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FYI- Burke had a range of affinity groups: Black, Asian, Latino, multiracial, Jewish, white allies, lgbt, etc.

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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

I don't think it is a few at our school. Our annual parental DEI meeting was not well attended at all. The majority of parents think it is wasteful use of staff and resources. In fact, there were very few POC in that meeting, which was also quite a surprise.

This tells you everything you need to know about the myopia of the people driving this stuff - this is why it repels normal people

“If you don’t want to go to a meeting about DEI you must be right wing”

“If you’re not white you must want DEI”

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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”?

There are children living below the poverty line who attend private school.

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Anonymous wrote:Did you make a separate post about Holton?

Nope, but it's one of the schools I pulled.

Where else?

Another school in the area without affinity groups.

Our high school is so polarized they actually won't let bi-racial kids join affinity groups. So if you have one parent who is black, that's not enough for the black affinity group. If you have one parent who is hispanic, nope, you can't join the hispanic one either. God forbid you have one asian and one black parent, because you can't go to either.

Gate keeping. And the person who makes this decision is the DEI head for the school. Lovely.

Things that never happened.

Not happening. More the merrier - allies, biracial, Caribbean African, AA, Ghanan, Moroccan.

Look, I agree the more the merrier. But the head of DEI makes those decisions and she's told highs school students who were biracial they couldn't join certain clubs because they weren't X enough. She has a horrible reputation among the students and she's a POC herself so I don't get it. It's a real shame.

Name the school or you are lying.

A private NOVA coed JK-12 episcopal school.

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Unfortunately, I think sometimes with DEI, it’s a case of more is less. Kids can get jaded if there is constant and relentless DEI messaging. They switch off. I see that in my own kids. Every year, my 9th grade DD has had to write something about her identity and after 6 years, it has become a rote assignment that has become meaningless for her. I see my 11th grade DS’s eyes glaze over. It is very unfortunate.

My kids’ schools have demonstrated their commitment to DEI by appointing full time DEI staff. But that then ramps up the amount of DEI programming in order to have something to show. I imagine it’s hard to get the balance right.

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

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

Do you mean private school education in NoVA is not different than public school education in NoVA?

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

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

Do you mean private school education in NoVA is not different than public school education in NoVA?

Public school education is better than private in NOVA.

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Anonymous wrote:FYI- Burke had a range of affinity groups: Black, Asian, Latino, multiracial, Jewish, white allies, lgbt, etc.

NP.

Important to note here that many Burke parents and students are unhappy with the program as it is currently implemented and want to see change. It pops up in conversation regularly.

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

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

Do you mean private school education in NoVA is not different than public school education in NoVA?

Public school education is better than private in NOVA.

Then how do the privates survive?