Private Schools Wokeness Over the Top

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Anonymous wrote:As a parent from a foreign background, this article resonated with me. I feel lost here and feel like I no longer fit in.

https://www.slowboring.com/p/who-is-included-by-inclusive-language

What this "Slow Boring" author seems not to understand or account for is that elite high schools are responding to the preferences of elite colleges, because the sole purpose of an elite high school is to help its students gain admission into an elite college. If it cannot fulfill this singular purpose it will not survive, no matter what other acculturation in the norms of fancy manners and society it may otherwise provide. College admission is king.

And what this author similarly seems to not understand about elite college "wokeness" is that it is the product not only of demands from the culture at large (and, crucially, the demographic of affluent teenagers that elite colleges cater to) but also its highly educated and abnormally intelligent faculty, who often lead the charge in determining intellectual and cultural norms on campus. Although this imperfect attempt at semi-meritocracy has been under attack in America for decades, for the most part smart people still run universities (not necessarily in the administration buildings, but in the lecture halls and research labs). So colleges tend to be on the progressive cutting edge, because the more educated you are, the more likely you are to hold progressive beliefs. If you really understand systemic racial and economic oppression you are going to support efforts to dismantle it (unless you are a sociopath or otherwise lacking in normal moral sensibilities, super-ego, empathy, or conscience). Even if those efforts to dismantle become absurd or performative (as, of course, they eventually do as dumber and less genuinely other-regarding people jump onto the PC train) the efforts are rooted in the result of education itself: a deeper, more nuanced, and more accurate understanding of how the world actually works.

If you don't like it, don't fret: the pendulum will swing again because not everyone with power and influence in American culture is smart or well-educated, or equipped with a functioning super-ego.

Not OP but it seems like you aren't that educated yourself, given the fact that you have no idea who Matt Yglesias is.

Sure you're not OP, lol.

Moreover, as early as the first page of the thread, the original poster prefaced one of her posts by saying, "Not OP but...". I am not sure whether the original poster identifies as a sock puppet, but the label would appear to fit.

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/weblog/2023/01/19/update011923

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Anonymous wrote:As a parent from a foreign background, this article resonated with me. I feel lost here and feel like I no longer fit in.

https://www.slowboring.com/p/who-is-included-by-inclusive-language

The author of the article cites a few Washington DC schools:
“Georgetown Day and Sidwell Friends here in D.C..”

It doesn’t seem like any of these schools hide the fact that they embrace diversity and equity , etc. I think it’s great that many schools are embracing these things. If a person doesn’t like a school’s ideologies they can obviously pick other schools..

It’s about more than embracing diversity and equity. It really is o er the top breeding of social justice warriors to a ridiculous degree—only for the most privileged trust fund children who can afford it, natch. I’m a liberal btw.

Lets not go too far here. They may embrace diversity, but their entire existence is premised on helping their students avoid equitable outcomes.

Precisely. Don’t get carried away.

These schools would do much better to teach their students the truth which is that every wealthy society and sector of society has gotten there by exploiting another class or nationality or strata of people; that cheap labor is the foundation of prosperity for a minority; that historically the cheap labor has been black and brown people and women (and also poor white people); and that they are on a proving ground / training ground for becoming overlords themselves.

Not this nonsense that any Western society has ever achieved excellence while not also building on a foundation of abuse, bc it just isn’t true.

No no no.

Much more manipulative and powerful to never teach context or ways of the times or what was paralleling in Asia or the Incas or tribal Africa and solely focus on Evil Whites who Came to North America. They invented slavery and indentured servitude and crop sharing and economics and trade and the caste system and bloodline royalty and taxes and schooling. None of that existed anywhere in any society ever before. Certainly not for 1000s or years everywhere else. And certainly no where today….

Great point.

The Aztecs were essentially the Nazis of the 15th century. So when a few years ago the new (far left) Mexican President came to power and asked Spain for historic apologies and reparations for having conquered Mexico, you know what happened?

Many non-Aztec Mexican groups attacked the President. Why? Because it was THEM, with just some aid by the newbies, who had defeated the Nazi Aztecs who had killed thousands and thousands of their children and enslaved thousands and thousands more.

You won't learn in US textbooks oh no.

US textbooks should cover atrocities committed by indigenous residents of 15th century Mexico?

Absolutely -- Hispanics are our largest minority group, and there's so much ignorance and hate going around every Columbus Day.

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Anonymous wrote:As a parent from a foreign background, this article resonated with me. I feel lost here and feel like I no longer fit in.

https://www.slowboring.com/p/who-is-included-by-inclusive-language

The author of the article cites a few Washington DC schools:
“Georgetown Day and Sidwell Friends here in D.C..”

It doesn’t seem like any of these schools hide the fact that they embrace diversity and equity , etc. I think it’s great that many schools are embracing these things. If a person doesn’t like a school’s ideologies they can obviously pick other schools..

It’s about more than embracing diversity and equity. It really is o er the top breeding of social justice warriors to a ridiculous degree—only for the most privileged trust fund children who can afford it, natch. I’m a liberal btw.

Lets not go too far here. They may embrace diversity, but their entire existence is premised on helping their students avoid equitable outcomes.

Precisely. Don’t get carried away.

These schools would do much better to teach their students the truth which is that every wealthy society and sector of society has gotten there by exploiting another class or nationality or strata of people; that cheap labor is the foundation of prosperity for a minority; that historically the cheap labor has been black and brown people and women (and also poor white people); and that they are on a proving ground / training ground for becoming overlords themselves.

Not this nonsense that any Western society has ever achieved excellence while not also building on a foundation of abuse, bc it just isn’t true.

No no no.

Much more manipulative and powerful to never teach context or ways of the times or what was paralleling in Asia or the Incas or tribal Africa and solely focus on Evil Whites who Came to North America. They invented slavery and indentured servitude and crop sharing and economics and trade and the caste system and bloodline royalty and taxes and schooling. None of that existed anywhere in any society ever before. Certainly not for 1000s or years everywhere else. And certainly no where today….

Great point.

The Aztecs were essentially the Nazis of the 15th century. So when a few years ago the new (far left) Mexican President came to power and asked Spain for historic apologies and reparations for having conquered Mexico, you know what happened?

Many non-Aztec Mexican groups attacked the President. Why? Because it was THEM, with just some aid by the newbies, who had defeated the Nazi Aztecs who had killed thousands and thousands of their children and enslaved thousands and thousands more.

You won't learn in US textbooks oh no.

US textbooks should cover atrocities committed by indigenous residents of 15th century Mexico?

Absolutely -- Hispanics are our largest minority group, and there's so much ignorance and hate going around every Columbus Day.

When you say “Hispanic” do you mean people who are of Spanish descent because their ancestors from Spain raped indigenous women?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As a parent from a foreign background, this article resonated with me. I feel lost here and feel like I no longer fit in.

https://www.slowboring.com/p/who-is-included-by-inclusive-language

The author of the article cites a few Washington DC schools:
“Georgetown Day and Sidwell Friends here in D.C..”

It doesn’t seem like any of these schools hide the fact that they embrace diversity and equity , etc. I think it’s great that many schools are embracing these things. If a person doesn’t like a school’s ideologies they can obviously pick other schools..

It’s about more than embracing diversity and equity. It really is o er the top breeding of social justice warriors to a ridiculous degree—only for the most privileged trust fund children who can afford it, natch. I’m a liberal btw.

Lets not go too far here. They may embrace diversity, but their entire existence is premised on helping their students avoid equitable outcomes.

Precisely. Don’t get carried away.

These schools would do much better to teach their students the truth which is that every wealthy society and sector of society has gotten there by exploiting another class or nationality or strata of people; that cheap labor is the foundation of prosperity for a minority; that historically the cheap labor has been black and brown people and women (and also poor white people); and that they are on a proving ground / training ground for becoming overlords themselves.

Not this nonsense that any Western society has ever achieved excellence while not also building on a foundation of abuse, bc it just isn’t true.

No no no.

Much more manipulative and powerful to never teach context or ways of the times or what was paralleling in Asia or the Incas or tribal Africa and solely focus on Evil Whites who Came to North America. They invented slavery and indentured servitude and crop sharing and economics and trade and the caste system and bloodline royalty and taxes and schooling. None of that existed anywhere in any society ever before. Certainly not for 1000s or years everywhere else. And certainly no where today….

Great point.

The Aztecs were essentially the Nazis of the 15th century. So when a few years ago the new (far left) Mexican President came to power and asked Spain for historic apologies and reparations for having conquered Mexico, you know what happened?

Many non-Aztec Mexican groups attacked the President. Why? Because it was THEM, with just some aid by the newbies, who had defeated the Nazi Aztecs who had killed thousands and thousands of their children and enslaved thousands and thousands more.

You won't learn in US textbooks oh no.

US textbooks should cover atrocities committed by indigenous residents of 15th century Mexico?

Absolutely -- Hispanics are our largest minority group, and there's so much ignorance and hate going around every Columbus Day.

When you say “Hispanic” do you mean people who are of Spanish descent because their ancestors from Spain raped indigenous women?

See -- this anglo stupidity is why we would benefit from some proper education instead of woke nonsense.

But I digress.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As a parent from a foreign background, this article resonated with me. I feel lost here and feel like I no longer fit in.

https://www.slowboring.com/p/who-is-included-by-inclusive-language

The author of the article cites a few Washington DC schools:
“Georgetown Day and Sidwell Friends here in D.C..”

It doesn’t seem like any of these schools hide the fact that they embrace diversity and equity , etc. I think it’s great that many schools are embracing these things. If a person doesn’t like a school’s ideologies they can obviously pick other schools..

It’s about more than embracing diversity and equity. It really is o er the top breeding of social justice warriors to a ridiculous degree—only for the most privileged trust fund children who can afford it, natch. I’m a liberal btw.

Lets not go too far here. They may embrace diversity, but their entire existence is premised on helping their students avoid equitable outcomes.

Precisely. Don’t get carried away.

These schools would do much better to teach their students the truth which is that every wealthy society and sector of society has gotten there by exploiting another class or nationality or strata of people; that cheap labor is the foundation of prosperity for a minority; that historically the cheap labor has been black and brown people and women (and also poor white people); and that they are on a proving ground / training ground for becoming overlords themselves.

Not this nonsense that any Western society has ever achieved excellence while not also building on a foundation of abuse, bc it just isn’t true.

No no no.

Much more manipulative and powerful to never teach context or ways of the times or what was paralleling in Asia or the Incas or tribal Africa and solely focus on Evil Whites who Came to North America. They invented slavery and indentured servitude and crop sharing and economics and trade and the caste system and bloodline royalty and taxes and schooling. None of that existed anywhere in any society ever before. Certainly not for 1000s or years everywhere else. And certainly no where today….

Great point.

The Aztecs were essentially the Nazis of the 15th century. So when a few years ago the new (far left) Mexican President came to power and asked Spain for historic apologies and reparations for having conquered Mexico, you know what happened?

Many non-Aztec Mexican groups attacked the President. Why? Because it was THEM, with just some aid by the newbies, who had defeated the Nazi Aztecs who had killed thousands and thousands of their children and enslaved thousands and thousands more.

You won't learn in US textbooks oh no.

US textbooks should cover atrocities committed by indigenous residents of 15th century Mexico?

Absolutely -- Hispanics are our largest minority group, and there's so much ignorance and hate going around every Columbus Day.

Correct. And it’s because there is no history and facts being taught anymore in progressive schools. They teach thematically cherry picked units and out of chrono order. It helps them paint their message and agenda. Covering US history as slavery, interment camps and civil rights events. Not discovery, invention, progress, development, leaders, what else was going on in the world.

So yeah the kids think Columbus invented slavery because they know no world history and get bonked over the head all year with how bad Columbus was.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As a parent from a foreign background, this article resonated with me. I feel lost here and feel like I no longer fit in.

https://www.slowboring.com/p/who-is-included-by-inclusive-language

The author of the article cites a few Washington DC schools:
“Georgetown Day and Sidwell Friends here in D.C..”

It doesn’t seem like any of these schools hide the fact that they embrace diversity and equity , etc. I think it’s great that many schools are embracing these things. If a person doesn’t like a school’s ideologies they can obviously pick other schools..

It’s about more than embracing diversity and equity. It really is o er the top breeding of social justice warriors to a ridiculous degree—only for the most privileged trust fund children who can afford it, natch. I’m a liberal btw.

Lets not go too far here. They may embrace diversity, but their entire existence is premised on helping their students avoid equitable outcomes.

Precisely. Don’t get carried away.

These schools would do much better to teach their students the truth which is that every wealthy society and sector of society has gotten there by exploiting another class or nationality or strata of people; that cheap labor is the foundation of prosperity for a minority; that historically the cheap labor has been black and brown people and women (and also poor white people); and that they are on a proving ground / training ground for becoming overlords themselves.

Not this nonsense that any Western society has ever achieved excellence while not also building on a foundation of abuse, bc it just isn’t true.

No no no.

Much more manipulative and powerful to never teach context or ways of the times or what was paralleling in Asia or the Incas or tribal Africa and solely focus on Evil Whites who Came to North America. They invented slavery and indentured servitude and crop sharing and economics and trade and the caste system and bloodline royalty and taxes and schooling. None of that existed anywhere in any society ever before. Certainly not for 1000s or years everywhere else. And certainly no where today….

Great point.

The Aztecs were essentially the Nazis of the 15th century. So when a few years ago the new (far left) Mexican President came to power and asked Spain for historic apologies and reparations for having conquered Mexico, you know what happened?

Many non-Aztec Mexican groups attacked the President. Why? Because it was THEM, with just some aid by the newbies, who had defeated the Nazi Aztecs who had killed thousands and thousands of their children and enslaved thousands and thousands more.

You won't learn in US textbooks oh no.

US textbooks should cover atrocities committed by indigenous residents of 15th century Mexico?

Absolutely -- Hispanics are our largest minority group, and there's so much ignorance and hate going around every Columbus Day.

When you say “Hispanic” do you mean people who are of Spanish descent because their ancestors from Spain raped indigenous women?

Whoever didn’t get thrown into the volcano for the sun god.

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Anonymous wrote:As a parent from a foreign background, this article resonated with me. I feel lost here and feel like I no longer fit in.

https://www.slowboring.com/p/who-is-included-by-inclusive-language

The author of the article cites a few Washington DC schools:
“Georgetown Day and Sidwell Friends here in D.C..”

It doesn’t seem like any of these schools hide the fact that they embrace diversity and equity , etc. I think it’s great that many schools are embracing these things. If a person doesn’t like a school’s ideologies they can obviously pick other schools..

It’s about more than embracing diversity and equity. It really is o er the top breeding of social justice warriors to a ridiculous degree—only for the most privileged trust fund children who can afford it, natch. I’m a liberal btw.

Lets not go too far here. They may embrace diversity, but their entire existence is premised on helping their students avoid equitable outcomes.

Precisely. Don’t get carried away.

These schools would do much better to teach their students the truth which is that every wealthy society and sector of society has gotten there by exploiting another class or nationality or strata of people; that cheap labor is the foundation of prosperity for a minority; that historically the cheap labor has been black and brown people and women (and also poor white people); and that they are on a proving ground / training ground for becoming overlords themselves.

Not this nonsense that any Western society has ever achieved excellence while not also building on a foundation of abuse, bc it just isn’t true.

No no no.

Much more manipulative and powerful to never teach context or ways of the times or what was paralleling in Asia or the Incas or tribal Africa and solely focus on Evil Whites who Came to North America. They invented slavery and indentured servitude and crop sharing and economics and trade and the caste system and bloodline royalty and taxes and schooling. None of that existed anywhere in any society ever before. Certainly not for 1000s or years everywhere else. And certainly no where today….

Great point.

The Aztecs were essentially the Nazis of the 15th century. So when a few years ago the new (far left) Mexican President came to power and asked Spain for historic apologies and reparations for having conquered Mexico, you know what happened?

Many non-Aztec Mexican groups attacked the President. Why? Because it was THEM, with just some aid by the newbies, who had defeated the Nazi Aztecs who had killed thousands and thousands of their children and enslaved thousands and thousands more.

You won't learn in US textbooks oh no.

US textbooks should cover atrocities committed by indigenous residents of 15th century Mexico?

I learned all this in middle school Spanish class.

[Anonymous]

Never thought I'd see the day when Matty Yglesias was posted on DCUM.

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Anonymous wrote:OP here. I believe in diversity and equity. The way it is pushed these days is more like a religion where other opinions are not allowed (look at the Hamline University debacle.. I am muslim and every muslim I know thinks what happens is insane). I am a person who is an admirer of Edward Said's book Orientalism as well as the People's History of the United States. I am Arab so am staunchly anti-imperialist. But I think schools have gone overboard. Also there is very little critique of class. I get it - they are private schools. But it is hypocritical to be pushing all of this and ignore the class aspect.

My kids are young - Kindergarten and first grade so they haven't been exposed to a lot of this yet. But I am worried that there is some indoctrination going on.

So you are in favor of just enough diversity and equity so that your kids are included, but anything beyond that is "over the top wokeness." Well, that's a perspective.

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Anonymous wrote:OP here. I believe in diversity and equity. The way it is pushed these days is more like a religion where other opinions are not allowed (look at the Hamline University debacle.. I am muslim and every muslim I know thinks what happens is insane). I am a person who is an admirer of Edward Said's book Orientalism as well as the People's History of the United States. I am Arab so am staunchly anti-imperialist. But I think schools have gone overboard. Also there is very little critique of class. I get it - they are private schools. But it is hypocritical to be pushing all of this and ignore the class aspect.

My kids are young - Kindergarten and first grade so they haven't been exposed to a lot of this yet. But I am worried that there is some indoctrination going on.

Couldn't agree more about the importance of critiquing class.

Yeah, but private school parents don't want too much of that, given that maintaining the class structure (and getting or staying on top of it) is pretty central to why a lot of them choose private school.

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Anonymous wrote:As a parent from a foreign background, this article resonated with me. I feel lost here and feel like I no longer fit in.

https://www.slowboring.com/p/who-is-included-by-inclusive-language

The author of the article cites a few Washington DC schools:
“Georgetown Day and Sidwell Friends here in D.C..”

It doesn’t seem like any of these schools hide the fact that they embrace diversity and equity , etc. I think it’s great that many schools are embracing these things. If a person doesn’t like a school’s ideologies they can obviously pick other schools..

It’s about more than embracing diversity and equity. It really is o er the top breeding of social justice warriors to a ridiculous degree—only for the most privileged trust fund children who can afford it, natch. I’m a liberal btw.

Lets not go too far here. They may embrace diversity, but their entire existence is premised on helping their students avoid equitable outcomes.

Precisely. Don’t get carried away.

These schools would do much better to teach their students the truth which is that every wealthy society and sector of society has gotten there by exploiting another class or nationality or strata of people; that cheap labor is the foundation of prosperity for a minority; that historically the cheap labor has been black and brown people and women (and also poor white people); and that they are on a proving ground / training ground for becoming overlords themselves.

Not this nonsense that any Western society has ever achieved excellence while not also building on a foundation of abuse, bc it just isn’t true.

No no no.

Much more manipulative and powerful to never teach context or ways of the times or what was paralleling in Asia or the Incas or tribal Africa and solely focus on Evil Whites who Came to North America. They invented slavery and indentured servitude and crop sharing and economics and trade and the caste system and bloodline royalty and taxes and schooling. None of that existed anywhere in any society ever before. Certainly not for 1000s or years everywhere else. And certainly no where today….

Great point.

The Aztecs were essentially the Nazis of the 15th century. So when a few years ago the new (far left) Mexican President came to power and asked Spain for historic apologies and reparations for having conquered Mexico, you know what happened?

Many non-Aztec Mexican groups attacked the President. Why? Because it was THEM, with just some aid by the newbies, who had defeated the Nazi Aztecs who had killed thousands and thousands of their children and enslaved thousands and thousands more.

You won't learn in US textbooks oh no.

Could we please stop facile comparisons to Nazis at the drop of a hat. It’s possible to discuss other cultures and histories on their own terms.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As a parent from a foreign background, this article resonated with me. I feel lost here and feel like I no longer fit in.

https://www.slowboring.com/p/who-is-included-by-inclusive-language

The author of the article cites a few Washington DC schools:
“Georgetown Day and Sidwell Friends here in D.C..”

It doesn’t seem like any of these schools hide the fact that they embrace diversity and equity , etc. I think it’s great that many schools are embracing these things. If a person doesn’t like a school’s ideologies they can obviously pick other schools..

It’s about more than embracing diversity and equity. It really is o er the top breeding of social justice warriors to a ridiculous degree—only for the most privileged trust fund children who can afford it, natch. I’m a liberal btw.

Lets not go too far here. They may embrace diversity, but their entire existence is premised on helping their students avoid equitable outcomes.

Precisely. Don’t get carried away.

These schools would do much better to teach their students the truth which is that every wealthy society and sector of society has gotten there by exploiting another class or nationality or strata of people; that cheap labor is the foundation of prosperity for a minority; that historically the cheap labor has been black and brown people and women (and also poor white people); and that they are on a proving ground / training ground for becoming overlords themselves.

Not this nonsense that any Western society has ever achieved excellence while not also building on a foundation of abuse, bc it just isn’t true.

No no no.

Much more manipulative and powerful to never teach context or ways of the times or what was paralleling in Asia or the Incas or tribal Africa and solely focus on Evil Whites who Came to North America. They invented slavery and indentured servitude and crop sharing and economics and trade and the caste system and bloodline royalty and taxes and schooling. None of that existed anywhere in any society ever before. Certainly not for 1000s or years everywhere else. And certainly no where today….

Great point.

The Aztecs were essentially the Nazis of the 15th century. So when a few years ago the new (far left) Mexican President came to power and asked Spain for historic apologies and reparations for having conquered Mexico, you know what happened?

Many non-Aztec Mexican groups attacked the President. Why? Because it was THEM, with just some aid by the newbies, who had defeated the Nazi Aztecs who had killed thousands and thousands of their children and enslaved thousands and thousands more.

You won't learn in US textbooks oh no.

US textbooks should cover atrocities committed by indigenous residents of 15th century Mexico?

Considering Mexico controlled nearly half of present-day US at the time, they probably should. People don’t even know a huge part of the US used to be Mexico.

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Anonymous wrote:Thank you to everyone who has been pushing back in this discussion and elsewhere. I am not sure how to pierce through the insanity that has captures so much of the education establishment, but it needs to happen. A significant course correction is necessary for the sanity and education of today’s students and society generally.

The left seems to be suffering from some sort of mass psychosis. They need to wakeup or be removed from positions of influence.

Oh, think of the children!

Yes, actually. This is a school forum. Children are actually what the focus is here. The fact that you mock that idea says everything—you are more concerned with pushing some objectionable gender or racial ideology than you are with what is actually good for kids. You shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near kids, including own, if you even have any.

You want to take away people’s kids bc their political views are different from yours? But the progressives are the ones we need to fear.

Keep politics out of schools.

It IS this simple.

Keep politics and indoctrination out of schools, you Evangelists and Wokes and Scientologists and Communists.

Schools are for Education.

You don’t even know what any of what you said means. Just capitalizing random words like your orange god.

Views of history and society they agree with are “education”; views they disagree with are “politics”

Need more schooling on fact versus opinion. reporting vs OpEd.

Mmmhmm. For example, “opinions” like African American history, which Ron DeSantis has banned from Florida schools before it can brainwash anyone into thinking about slavery and its legacy. https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/01/19/politics/ron-desantis-ap-african-american-studies/index.html

Right, DeSantis’ approach is stupid and frankly absurd. Kids should be able to confront uncomfortable opinions in school. But that also should hold true for ideas the progressives hold as orthodoxy. I do not understand how as a culture we seem to have collectively agreed that kids should go through life never encountering an idea that makes them the slightest bit uncomfortable. There is very little air between what DeSantis is doing and the “safe spaces” academic progressives demand.

What topics or issues are being rejected for conversation or debate by progressives?

I think almost anything having to do with gender ideology, for starters. The example above of the girl track athlete who says in debate class that she does not think it is fair or just that she is pitted against pre-medical-transition trans girls on the track is not a far-fetched hypothetical. She would likely face disciplinary measures in many private schools for just saying that, even in debate classes.

Actually at schools like Sidwell and GDS, they would have frank discussions about these issues. Please cite and example where discussion of these issues result in disciplinary action. You are just projecting BS onto schools you want to label as woke without any basis in fact.

Read their school newspapers if you think any honest debate is going on when your teacher preacher and loudest peers frame the discussion exactly as ugly as some dcum’ers do. Just smile and nod to get a good curved down B+.

Either that or beg your parents to move to a sane country/ state.

The world is there to explore it. And that's why so many families have moved over the last few years.

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Anonymous wrote:As a parent from a foreign background, this article resonated with me. I feel lost here and feel like I no longer fit in.

https://www.slowboring.com/p/who-is-included-by-inclusive-language

Maybe you don’t fit in. You always have options to go to public or choose another school that suits you. There are all sorts of schools in this area- clubby preppy types with lots of GOP families and definitely lots of Trump families, liberal types that lean very left, all boys, all girls, less rigorous, highly rigorous. I suggest you do your research and then you can easily find a school that suits your needs.

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I think the focus on “wokeness” is silly and over-the-top, but anyone who believes that a female track athlete in many of these private schools could openly express that she considers it unjust that she would have to run against pre-medical-transition trans girls and not face severe repercussions for saying that is absolutely delusional. We all should at least acknowledge that reality.