GDS Bias Reporting Web Tool

[Anonymous]

All of the local privates followed society at-large down the rabbit hole of wokeittude.

They’ll reap the rewards for decades.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kid just wants to go unmasked and everyone is shaming her into wearing a mask at school.

What is this nonsense? Mask-wearing in my kid's GDS lower school class is the exception, not the norm.

Yeah, my high schooler says after break the majority were not wearing masks. They heard one student ask another why she was still wearing a mask, but otherwise everyone seemed to accept people's choices.

[Anonymous]

I don’t understand why this is a big deal. Kids can already “report” on other kids. This sounds like a web form.

[Anonymous]

The kids should report on the teachers for enforcing group think.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can they use these efforts to stop scaring kids about Covid? Can that be a micro aggression? My kid just wants to go unmasked and everyone is shaming her into wearing a mask at school. I would rather see money put into education these kids that Covid is not going to kill their vaxed and boosted selves so that they can leave school and survive in the world. Also all this testing needs to stop!

No, please continue to wear masks during mask optional indoors. It’s the respectful thing to do you know.

[Anonymous]

GDS is a great school for social misfits.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Will kids score points for reporting?

No scores or ranking or grades allowed there, and certainly don’t tell the class what the distribution or outcomes were— that might foster a competitive spirit or make someone feel bad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand why this is a big deal.

It’s not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m a teacher (not at GDS). It’s very common for schools to have a mechanism for anonymous reporting of incidents at school. Not sure what is shocking about this. A report is just that. It’s not a disciplinary proceeding or punishment.

It's one think to know that one can report something anonymously. What GDS has done is issue an open invitation for any and all big or small real or perceived slights to be reported and for kids to rat each other out. That's dangerous. There is something to be said for giving people grace when they make mistakes and also learning to deal with all sorts of adversity. We are teaching our kids to be so self-centered and only think to think of themselves. How awful to grow up thinking that even a benign comment is somehow loaded, filled with animus, and directed at you. That is the effect of these sorts of policies. I do not have kids at GDS, have kids at other privates. I find this GDS policy Orwellian and hope it's not a DC private school trend.

[Anonymous]

My kid goes to GDS and is as woke as they come. She thinks this new web tool is "stupid" because jokes, for example, made in a group chat could be easily taken out of context and reported as bias. While it's true the kids have always been able to report, the web tool makes it far too easy in a way that kids doing the reporting can do so without much thought or time to process.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m a teacher (not at GDS). It’s very common for schools to have a mechanism for anonymous reporting of incidents at school. Not sure what is shocking about this. A report is just that. It’s not a disciplinary proceeding or punishment.

It's one think to know that one can report something anonymously. What GDS has done is issue an open invitation for any and all big or small real or perceived slights to be reported and for kids to rat each other out. That's dangerous. There is something to be said for giving people grace when they make mistakes and also learning to deal with all sorts of adversity. We are teaching our kids to be so self-centered and only think to think of themselves. How awful to grow up thinking that even a benign comment is somehow loaded, filled with animus, and directed at you. That is the effect of these sorts of policies. I do not have kids at GDS, have kids at other privates. I find this GDS policy Orwellian and hope it's not a DC private school trend.

What is your threshold for when incidents involving students warrant reporting?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kid goes to GDS and is as woke as they come. She thinks this new web tool is "stupid" because jokes, for example, made in a group chat could be easily taken out of context and reported as bias. While it's true the kids have always been able to report, the web tool makes it far too easy in a way that kids doing the reporting can do so without much thought or time to process.

Maybe they should stop making those kinds of "jokes."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m a teacher (not at GDS). It’s very common for schools to have a mechanism for anonymous reporting of incidents at school. Not sure what is shocking about this. A report is just that. It’s not a disciplinary proceeding or punishment.

It's one think to know that one can report something anonymously. What GDS has done is issue an open invitation for any and all big or small real or perceived slights to be reported and for kids to rat each other out. That's dangerous. There is something to be said for giving people grace when they make mistakes and also learning to deal with all sorts of adversity. We are teaching our kids to be so self-centered and only think to think of themselves. How awful to grow up thinking that even a benign comment is somehow loaded, filled with animus, and directed at you. That is the effect of these sorts of policies. I do not have kids at GDS, have kids at other privates. I find this GDS policy Orwellian and hope it's not a DC private school trend.

No one’s going to report anything.

It’s a worse process than going to Ethics or HR at a big company. You have a bunch of restorative Justice meetings together, and the bully retaliates worse and badmouths you to anyone who will listen, forever.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:All of the local privates followed society at-large down the rabbit hole of wokeittude.

They’ll reap the rewards for decades.

They are just as exclusive as they always have been and their students will go on to just as well as they always have. They will sit and pretend to agree with the school in order to get through. The same was true when schools were more conservative than students 70 years ago. They schools will continue to shift with the times and students and parents will continue to pretend to care.

[Anonymous]

I'm a GDS HS student and I've never heard of this.

Not sure what you're talking about.