Anti-diversity trends.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Also As a person with kids who went GDS I would say if you care about diversity take a look at your kids friend group.
We had one child there whose best friend was Black. We are white. They were inseparable from 6th grade on and continue to be close in college. Sadly this is a very rare occurrence.

Our other child's friend group is almostly completely white and economically privileged. There are some asian and half asian kids in that mix but no black kids at all.

We believe GDS's DEI agenda only serves to silo the kids. My kid in middle school had lots of friends from different racial groups but as the school pushed identity politics and affinity groups everyone started self-separating in high school. I know for kids of color this can be a necessary and validating thing. I also know that kids are tribal by nature. It is the school's job to address this and GDS virtue signals but ignores the elephant in the room which is that the majority of friend groups are divided by race.
I view this as a failure of school leadership and an abandonment of the school's mission.

So sad now your white child won’t be able to tell people they are not racist because they have 1 black friend. DEI is terrible.

But wasn't DEI about decreasing segregation and bringing peace to racial relationships? This is a sincere question as I don't know what the target outcome is.

Anyway, I actually don't have personal experience as my kids are not yet in school. But it's an issue I think of often.

The problem is racism and white supremacy. We need a more direct approach. DIE is just too watered down.

[Anonymous]

Our experience is very different. Not saying anyone’s racist but weird yes

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Also As a person with kids who went GDS I would say if you care about diversity take a look at your kids friend group.
We had one child there whose best friend was Black. We are white. They were inseparable from 6th grade on and continue to be close in college. Sadly this is a very rare occurrence.

Our other child's friend group is almostly completely white and economically privileged. There are some asian and half asian kids in that mix but no black kids at all.

We believe GDS's DEI agenda only serves to silo the kids. My kid in middle school had lots of friends from different racial groups but as the school pushed identity politics and affinity groups everyone started self-separating in high school. I know for kids of color this can be a necessary and validating thing. I also know that kids are tribal by nature. It is the school's job to address this and GDS virtue signals but ignores the elephant in the room which is that the majority of friend groups are divided by race.
I view this as a failure of school leadership and an abandonment of the school's mission.

So sad now your white child won’t be able to tell people they are not racist because they have 1 black friend. DEI is terrible.

But wasn't DEI about decreasing segregation and bringing peace to racial relationships? This is a sincere question as I don't know what the target outcome is.

Anyway, I actually don't have personal experience as my kids are not yet in school. But it's an issue I think of often.

The problem is racism and white supremacy. We need a more direct approach. DIE is just too watered down.

And how do you deal with racism and white supremacy? By bringing people together (both same-race and cross-race groups) and help them talk to each other, understand each other, and let them see they can easily be in same space with no issue. If in practice you only create same-race groups at school, that will create an issue in the long run, I think. You cannot deal with racism while causing more segregation.

[Anonymous]

At GDS the diversity of friend groups varies a lot from kid to kid and family to family. I don’t know what drives some kids to make friends across racial boundaries, but parents who encourage friendships widely and who themselves show by example that they have family and friends across racial boundaries tend to be successful than those who - intentionally or not - have friends and family of one race.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At GDS the diversity of friend groups varies a lot from kid to kid and family to family. I don’t know what drives some kids to make friends across racial boundaries, but parents who encourage friendships widely and who themselves show by example that they have family and friends across racial boundaries tend to be successful than those who - intentionally or not - have friends and family of one race.

Thanks. This can help us guess how successful DEI will be to solve racial issues at school, when in practice it is about creating same-race groups at school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Also As a person with kids who went GDS I would say if you care about diversity take a look at your kids friend group.
We had one child there whose best friend was Black. We are white. They were inseparable from 6th grade on and continue to be close in college. Sadly this is a very rare occurrence.

Our other child's friend group is almostly completely white and economically privileged. There are some asian and half asian kids in that mix but no black kids at all.

We believe GDS's DEI agenda only serves to silo the kids. My kid in middle school had lots of friends from different racial groups but as the school pushed identity politics and affinity groups everyone started self-separating in high school. I know for kids of color this can be a necessary and validating thing. I also know that kids are tribal by nature. It is the school's job to address this and GDS virtue signals but ignores the elephant in the room which is that the majority of friend groups are divided by race.
I view this as a failure of school leadership and an abandonment of the school's mission.

So sad now your white child won’t be able to tell people they are not racist because they have 1 black friend. DEI is terrible.

But wasn't DEI about decreasing segregation and bringing peace to racial relationships? This is a sincere question as I don't know what the target outcome is.

Anyway, I actually don't have personal experience as my kids are not yet in school. But it's an issue I think of often.

The problem is racism and white supremacy. We need a more direct approach. DIE is just too watered down.

Exactly this. Let’s not be disingenuous, people in here are acting as if division in schools is a relatively new phenomenon. Racism and white supremacy was a founding principle of our nation.

Let’s ask all those students posting on those black@insertyourschoolpages if things should go back to normal.

I think we are placing white comfort over liberation for historically marginalized groups.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At GDS the diversity of friend groups varies a lot from kid to kid and family to family. I don’t know what drives some kids to make friends across racial boundaries, but parents who encourage friendships widely and who themselves show by example that they have family and friends across racial boundaries tend to be successful than those who - intentionally or not - have friends and family of one race.

Thanks. This can help us guess how successful DEI will be to solve racial issues at school, when in practice it is about creating same-race groups at school.

Its not the affinity groups keeping kids separate it’s the country clubs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Also As a person with kids who went GDS I would say if you care about diversity take a look at your kids friend group.
We had one child there whose best friend was Black. We are white. They were inseparable from 6th grade on and continue to be close in college. Sadly this is a very rare occurrence.

Our other child's friend group is almostly completely white and economically privileged. There are some asian and half asian kids in that mix but no black kids at all.

We believe GDS's DEI agenda only serves to silo the kids. My kid in middle school had lots of friends from different racial groups but as the school pushed identity politics and affinity groups everyone started self-separating in high school. I know for kids of color this can be a necessary and validating thing. I also know that kids are tribal by nature. It is the school's job to address this and GDS virtue signals but ignores the elephant in the room which is that the majority of friend groups are divided by race.
I view this as a failure of school leadership and an abandonment of the school's mission.

So sad now your white child won’t be able to tell people they are not racist because they have 1 black friend. DEI is terrible.

But wasn't DEI about decreasing segregation and bringing peace to racial relationships? This is a sincere question as I don't know what the target outcome is.

Anyway, I actually don't have personal experience as my kids are not yet in school. But it's an issue I think of often.

The problem is racism and white supremacy. We need a more direct approach. DIE is just too watered down.

Exactly this. Let’s not be disingenuous, people in here are acting as if division in schools is a relatively new phenomenon. Racism and white supremacy was a founding principle of our nation.

Let’s ask all those students posting on those black@insertyourschoolpages if things should go back to normal.

I think we are placing white comfort over liberation for historically marginalized groups.

We need more white kids to be uncomfortable at school? That is going to solve something? You can't make a hostile environment for some kids to supposedly "liberate" other kids. That will never work.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At GDS the diversity of friend groups varies a lot from kid to kid and family to family. I don’t know what drives some kids to make friends across racial boundaries, but parents who encourage friendships widely and who themselves show by example that they have family and friends across racial boundaries tend to be successful than those who - intentionally or not - have friends and family of one race.

Thanks. This can help us guess how successful DEI will be to solve racial issues at school, when in practice it is about creating same-race groups at school.

Its not the affinity groups keeping kids separate it’s the country clubs.

Yes, you are basically saying the same thing a previous poster was saying: segregation is mainly due to income.
Only rich people are members of country clubs.

Schools can do nothing to mitigate the problem above. But they can at least not throw gasoline to an existing fire, by creating same-race groupings at school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At GDS the diversity of friend groups varies a lot from kid to kid and family to family. I don’t know what drives some kids to make friends across racial boundaries, but parents who encourage friendships widely and who themselves show by example that they have family and friends across racial boundaries tend to be successful than those who - intentionally or not - have friends and family of one race.

Thanks. This can help us guess how successful DEI will be to solve racial issues at school, when in practice it is about creating same-race groups at school.

Its not the affinity groups keeping kids separate it’s the country clubs.

Yes, you are basically saying the same thing a previous poster was saying: segregation is mainly due to income.
Only rich people are members of country clubs.

Schools can do nothing to mitigate the problem above. But they can at least not throw gasoline to an existing fire, by creating same-race groupings at school.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At GDS the diversity of friend groups varies a lot from kid to kid and family to family. I don’t know what drives some kids to make friends across racial boundaries, but parents who encourage friendships widely and who themselves show by example that they have family and friends across racial boundaries tend to be successful than those who - intentionally or not - have friends and family of one race.

Thanks. This can help us guess how successful DEI will be to solve racial issues at school, when in practice it is about creating same-race groups at school.

Its not the affinity groups keeping kids separate it’s the country clubs.

Yes, you are basically saying the same thing a previous poster was saying: segregation is mainly due to income.
Only rich people are members of country clubs.

Schools can do nothing to mitigate the problem above. But they can at least not throw gasoline to an existing fire, by creating same-race groupings at school.

I think it is fine if blacks want to hang out with blacks at school, or latinas with latinas, etc etc.. due to various affinity groups. But then when whites are friends with each other, don't say whites hang out with whites because they are racist. It is because they are left to each other maybe.. Maybe their parents belong to the same country club, etc etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At GDS the diversity of friend groups varies a lot from kid to kid and family to family. I don’t know what drives some kids to make friends across racial boundaries, but parents who encourage friendships widely and who themselves show by example that they have family and friends across racial boundaries tend to be successful than those who - intentionally or not - have friends and family of one race.

Thanks. This can help us guess how successful DEI will be to solve racial issues at school, when in practice it is about creating same-race groups at school.

Its not the affinity groups keeping kids separate it’s the country clubs.

Yes, you are basically saying the same thing a previous poster was saying: segregation is mainly due to income.
Only rich people are members of country clubs.

Schools can do nothing to mitigate the problem above. But they can at least not throw gasoline to an existing fire, by creating same-race groupings at school.

Do you think the purpose of DEI is so that all groups of races can come together and sing kumbaya in class? If that is your understanding I think you gravely misunderstood its purpose.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At GDS the diversity of friend groups varies a lot from kid to kid and family to family. I don’t know what drives some kids to make friends across racial boundaries, but parents who encourage friendships widely and who themselves show by example that they have family and friends across racial boundaries tend to be successful than those who - intentionally or not - have friends and family of one race.

Thanks. This can help us guess how successful DEI will be to solve racial issues at school, when in practice it is about creating same-race groups at school.

Its not the affinity groups keeping kids separate it’s the country clubs.

Yes, you are basically saying the same thing a previous poster was saying: segregation is mainly due to income.
Only rich people are members of country clubs.

Schools can do nothing to mitigate the problem above. But they can at least not throw gasoline to an existing fire, by creating same-race groupings at school.

Do you think the purpose of DEI is so that all groups of races can come together and sing kumbaya in class? If that is your understanding I think you gravely misunderstood its purpose.

Please let us know the purpose.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Also As a person with kids who went GDS I would say if you care about diversity take a look at your kids friend group.
We had one child there whose best friend was Black. We are white. They were inseparable from 6th grade on and continue to be close in college. Sadly this is a very rare occurrence.

Our other child's friend group is almostly completely white and economically privileged. There are some asian and half asian kids in that mix but no black kids at all.

We believe GDS's DEI agenda only serves to silo the kids. My kid in middle school had lots of friends from different racial groups but as the school pushed identity politics and affinity groups everyone started self-separating in high school. I know for kids of color this can be a necessary and validating thing. I also know that kids are tribal by nature. It is the school's job to address this and GDS virtue signals but ignores the elephant in the room which is that the majority of friend groups are divided by race.
I view this as a failure of school leadership and an abandonment of the school's mission.

So sad now your white child won’t be able to tell people they are not racist because they have 1 black friend. DEI is terrible.

But wasn't DEI about decreasing segregation and bringing peace to racial relationships? This is a sincere question as I don't know what the target outcome is.

Anyway, I actually don't have personal experience as my kids are not yet in school. But it's an issue I think of often.

The problem is racism and white supremacy. We need a more direct approach. DIE is just too watered down.

And how do you deal with racism and white supremacy? By bringing people together (both same-race and cross-race groups) and help them talk to each other, understand each other, and let them see they can easily be in same space with no issue. If in practice you only create same-race groups at school, that will create an issue in the long run, I think. You cannot deal with racism while causing more segregation.

What is white supremacy? Don’t have the skinheads affinity group? What are you on about with the white supremacy? Lunatics one and all

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Also As a person with kids who went GDS I would say if you care about diversity take a look at your kids friend group.
We had one child there whose best friend was Black. We are white. They were inseparable from 6th grade on and continue to be close in college. Sadly this is a very rare occurrence.

Our other child's friend group is almostly completely white and economically privileged. There are some asian and half asian kids in that mix but no black kids at all.

We believe GDS's DEI agenda only serves to silo the kids. My kid in middle school had lots of friends from different racial groups but as the school pushed identity politics and affinity groups everyone started self-separating in high school. I know for kids of color this can be a necessary and validating thing. I also know that kids are tribal by nature. It is the school's job to address this and GDS virtue signals but ignores the elephant in the room which is that the majority of friend groups are divided by race.
I view this as a failure of school leadership and an abandonment of the school's mission.

So sad now your white child won’t be able to tell people they are not racist because they have 1 black friend. DEI is terrible.

But wasn't DEI about decreasing segregation and bringing peace to racial relationships? This is a sincere question as I don't know what the target outcome is.

Anyway, I actually don't have personal experience as my kids are not yet in school. But it's an issue I think of often.

The problem is racism and white supremacy. We need a more direct approach. DIE is just too watered down.

And how do you deal with racism and white supremacy? By bringing people together (both same-race and cross-race groups) and help them talk to each other, understand each other, and let them see they can easily be in same space with no issue. If in practice you only create same-race groups at school, that will create an issue in the long run, I think. You cannot deal with racism while causing more segregation.

What is white supremacy? Don’t have the skinheads affinity group? What are you on about with the white supremacy? Lunatics one and all

You need to see a shrink. No one here asked for skinheads or even whites affinity group.