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Anonymous
Great question, ask the school. We are from the Mideast too but when we fill out things it is in the parentheses under White. |
Anonymous
Well this white person learned the “brown people” label from the self-identifying brown young man my DD is dating. The PP that questions “who decides who’s brown” raises a legit question. I has to be about self-identify. |
Anonymous
LOL no it isn't. I'm a black woman and black people regularly use it as well. That Arab commenter is being willfully obtuse. If theres anyone that should know what it means, it's an ARAB. LMAO |
Anonymous
Lol. Otherwise known as denial. |
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Anonymous
Great trolling! |
Anonymous
Racist stereotype example, right here folks! |
Anonymous
My politics are very liberal, yet I agree with this. These issues are hard, and kids are young and figuring things out. They need a little freedom to do that, or many will do exactly what PP said. (My kids are mixed race, so this plays out in many different ways). I arrived at my political views through years of hard discussions and difficult conversations. I grew up in a very red area of the country, and I still have friends there. Sometimes our conversations are very hard. Sometimes I am very frustrated. I value those conversations though, as they challenge everyone to think really hard about their positions, to refine them, and--if you really care about getting stuff done in the policy world (which I'm in)--you not only have to understand the competing views but you also need to be a little slower to vilify people. That isn't to say that certain things aren't out of bounds--certain things are out of bounds. But that's not what we're talking about here. We have lots of friends who send their kids to GDS, and most of them are very happy. Even though DH and I largely agree with where GDS comes out on a number of issues (not all, but many), we chose to send our kids somewhere else, because we wanted them to arrive at their positions through the hard conversations. |
Anonymous
The moneyed interests who profit from a broken gridlocked system are succeeding in getting the public to go along with them. There's sheep all around. --Signed, lifelong democrat, just to be clear |
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Anonymous
That is not a joke. It’s absolutely true. I remember when our youngest was doing the GDS 2nd grade Identity Unit all year. Out of the blue just sitting around he’d be bothered and say He’s supposed to explore his gender. And that there were three genders. The thing his 8 yo self most contorted was something about how one could be “one thing on the inside but another on the outside.” He thought that meant they could have a baby and the parts were female inside and male outside. All by willing it so! Net/net: It’s one thing to teach children to be inclusive towards those who have gender dysphoria. It’s quite another to tell young children to join in, explore their gender and think about it all the time. They should be focusing on geography, math, reading, writing, sports and the Golden Rule. |
Anonymous
And you paid $45,000 to have your child indoctrined with this garbage because.... |
Anonymous
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Wait until middle school or the two 9-week Sex Ed classes in upper school. You’ll learn how all the different bits can fit together!
Question everything—except what they tell you. |
Anonymous
No I’m not being obtuse. Notice you never answered the question because you have no idea either. Arabs are an ethnicity not a race. An Arab can have blond hair and blue eyes or can be black. Most of us are in between. I have “beige” skin. Not sure what that makes me. My sister is darker - same skin tone as Meghan markle. My brother is lighter than both of us. Fair skin and then very dark black hair. Where do we as family fall in the brown category? Of course in applications all Arabs, no matter how dark their skin tone is, are explicitly told to check white. |
Anonymous
Denial how? You laugh but like the PP before you, you have no idea what the answer is. Arabs don’t fit into the neat racial categories that you are trying to draw. We are an ethnicity not a race. We have a common culture and language. My husband is Syrian. If he did one of those ancestry tests he’ll probably find out that he is partly European (after all that part of the Arab world was part of the Roman Empire and was controlled by the crusaders), partly from central Arabia, partly Persian, partly Turkic, and partly Jewish. I am probably partly from central Arabia, partly Persian, partly Indian and maybe a sprinkle of Portuguese thrown into the mix. |