NYC private school requiring prospective parents to write essay on DEIA

[Anonymous]

What I found hypocritical is that these elite private schools are pushing diversity, equity, and inclusion but would not give a second look at an application from a child with ADHD or mildly on the spectrum, where the schools might need to adapt a bit to different learning styles. What about those kids?
I know there may be the occasional exception to this but in general, these kids are shunned from many elite private schools. Public schools don’t have an option to cherry pick their students. I’m missing the equity part…

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Any DC privates doing this yet?

Prospective parents at The Brearley School, an all-girls school on the Upper East Side, are informed on their application that “parents are expected to attend two diversity, equity, inclusion and antiracism (DEIA) workshops per school year,” and write a 500-word essay demonstrating their fealty to those values.

https://nypost.com/2022/10/22/elite-nyc-prep-schools-aim-woke-indoctrination-at-parents-too/

Sounds like bullshit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Looks like some company is making money running these workshops, telling kids and faculty white people are racist.

Crony capitalism is alive and well with DEI hiring and expansion. Soup de jour for sure.

[Anonymous]

Why are you triggered by what some private school in NYC does? If you don't like it, don't apply.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:C'mon people, we all know it's about virtue signaling. Brearley isn't actually about to practice DEI in its admissions rubrics and neither are any of the other privates. These DEI "initiatives" are just to cover their A$$es against any potential charges.

I don’t know about Brearly, but many privates have pushed forward with increasing diversity and adding scholarships.

Sure but if you really support DE&I, then you’d send your kids to public school. End of story.

I don’t think so. NYC public schools suck and privilege is built into magnet school admissions testing.

You think NYC magnets have more privilege than a 60k a year private?

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Whether the school is actually honoring its own principles is a different question but having the seminars doesn't make it worse - this is a totally disingenuous complaint and a logical fallacy which we as a society need to stop. If the seminars bother you I am sure achieving actual DEI goals would be even more upsetting

Sorry no. My kids go to our local public school, which is only 30 percent white, by choice. It mirrors our community. I think going to a 60K per year private school that is mostly white and writing a DEI essay or taking classes is pretty hypocritical and ridiculous.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What I found hypocritical is that these elite private schools are pushing diversity, equity, and inclusion but would not give a second look at an application from a child with ADHD or mildly on the spectrum, where the schools might need to adapt a bit to different learning styles. What about those kids?
I know there may be the occasional exception to this but in general, these kids are shunned from many elite private schools. Public schools don’t have an option to cherry pick their students. I’m missing the equity part…

+1 and the inclusion part.

[Anonymous]

I find this so bizarre. The entire existence of these schools is about exclusion. Sure, they now let in minorities, but they better be rich! If they weren’t excluding the poor and unconnected, no one would want to attend.

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Anonymous wrote:The irony, of course, is that if Brearley wants to attract the children of immigrants or children whose parents didn't go to college, they have just significantly reduced that population. They're perpetuating cycles of admission that caters to well-educated and wealthy parents.

They do not want those people. They cannot pay tuition and make big donations.

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Anonymous wrote:I wonder if they read Kipling for inspiration

How appropriate . . .

The Gods of the Copybook Headings
by Rudyard Kipling

As I pass through my incarnations in every age and race,
I make my proper prostrations to the Gods of the Market Place.
Peering through reverent fingers I watch them flourish and fall,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings, I notice, outlast them all.

We were living in trees when they met us. They showed us each in turn
That Water would certainly wet us, as Fire would certainly burn:
But we found them lacking in Uplift, Vision and Breadth of Mind,
So we left them to teach the Gorillas while we followed the March of Mankind.

We moved as the Spirit listed. They never altered their pace,
Being neither cloud nor wind-borne like the Gods of the Market Place,
But they always caught up with our progress, and presently word would come
That a tribe had been wiped off its icefield, or the lights had gone out in Rome.

With the Hopes that our World is built on they were utterly out of touch,
They denied that the Moon was Stilton; they denied she was even Dutch;
They denied that Wishes were Horses; they denied that a Pig had Wings;
So we worshipped the Gods of the Market Who promised these beautiful things.

When the Cambrian measures were forming, They promised perpetual peace.
They swore, if we gave them our weapons, that the wars of the tribes would cease.
But when we disarmed They sold us and delivered us bound to our foe,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "Stick to the Devil you know."

On the first Feminian Sandstones we were promised the Fuller Life
(Which started by loving our neighbour and ended by loving his wife)
Till our women had no more children and the men lost reason and faith,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "The Wages of Sin is Death."

In the Carboniferous Epoch we were promised abundance for all,
By robbing selected Peter to pay for collective Paul;
But, though we had plenty of money, there was nothing our money could buy,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "If you don't work you die."

Then the Gods of the Market tumbled, and their smooth-tongued wizards withdrew
And the hearts of the meanest were humbled and began to believe it was true
That All is not Gold that Glitters, and Two and Two make Four
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings limped up to explain it once more.

As it will be in the future, it was at the birth of Man
There are only four things certain since Social Progress began.
That the Dog returns to his Vomit and the Sow returns to her Mire,
And the burnt Fool's bandaged finger goes wabbling back to the Fire;

And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins
When all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins,
As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn,
The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What I found hypocritical is that these elite private schools are pushing diversity, equity, and inclusion but would not give a second look at an application from a child with ADHD or mildly on the spectrum, where the schools might need to adapt a bit to different learning styles. What about those kids?
I know there may be the occasional exception to this but in general, these kids are shunned from many elite private schools. Public schools don’t have an option to cherry pick their students. I’m missing the equity part…

+1 and the inclusion part.

I have a disabled kid. As I’m not able to do some things. It’s not a learning styles difference. I don’t have any need to send my kid to some selective school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why are you triggered by what some private school in NYC does? If you don't like it, don't apply.

Exactly! MAGAS love being triggered/aggrieved even over things that are none of their business.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Why are you triggered by what some private school in NYC does? If you don't like it, don't apply.

Exactly! MAGAS love being triggered/aggrieved even over things that are none of their business.

Lol

Yes, all those MAGAs who are in favor of DEI!

Is it backwards day in your world?

[Anonymous]

In other news, the School for Cats is doubling down on its mouse diversity program.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why are you triggered by what some private school in NYC does? If you don't like it, don't apply.

Exactly! MAGAS love being triggered/aggrieved even over things that are none of their business.

Lol

Yes, all those MAGAs who are in favor of DEI!

Is it backwards day in your world?

What MAGAs seem to love are these threads that are nothing more than a circle jerk.