Was Stone Ridge everything you hoped it would be for your high school daughter?

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Really please name one school system in Va that teaches CRT in any form as part of their curriculum …

I'm sure you don't even live in Virginia so you have no objective knowledge about this, just what you heard the racebaiters on MSNBC say last week. According to them the state that unseated the sitting white Attorney General (running for a third term) and replaced him with the Hispanic candidate, as well as electing the first ever black woman Lt Gov is full of white supremacists.

Nobody is saying that there is a CRT 101 course (it would be difficult, considering nobody can clearly articulate what it is anyway), but unless you are truly obtuse (and not just someone whose opinions are second hand ones from cable TV), you will know that education in a school does not just happen in the classroom. Educating children is just as much a part of the school culture which is inculcated in a variety of ways, during extra curricular activities and enrichment events, meetings, clubs, interpersonal relationships, and the way teachers present information. Educators work with curriculum but that is only half the story. The other half is pedagogy, how the curriculum is delivered. This is where parents were concerned. Virginians took a nuanced view of something they felt was not appropriate. That is their right as citizens of a free Republic.

If CRT was so great why are schools like SR backing off from something they embraced so wholeheartedly just last year?

The school never taught it - there were a couple of workshops led by students that were not well recoeved because they were over the top. It is ridiculous to make a bruh ha ha over this …

+10000……Just stop with this. My DD was a 2021 graduate. She was extremely active in the affinity clubs, social justice activities and diversity initiatives and they never, ever taught CRT. I may be giving myself away here, but I live in VA and no schools are teaching CRT in my county either. Just give it a rest. If CRT is keeping families from taking a look at SR, it’s not the place for them anyway and they can get to stepping. SR is not hurting for applicants.

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Nobody is saying the school taught it, but faculty were required to read Kendi's book, and the school was all about being an "anti-racist institution" for a hot minute. All the employment announcements stated they were searching for "an anti-racist educator". They got older white teachers to make videos about how they realized they had white privilege.

Most of this seems to have evaporated.

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Anonymous wrote:Nobody is saying the school taught it, but faculty were required to read Kendi's book, and the school was all about being an "anti-racist institution" for a hot minute. All the employment announcements stated they were searching for "an anti-racist educator". They got older white teachers to make videos about how they realized they had white privilege.

Most of this seems to have evaporated.

There seems to be a large contingent of Stone Ridge parents that just prefer to basically cover their eyes and pretend that anything they dont like... didn't happen. it's the "my daughter had a great experience so this bullying problem can't exist!" argument. Basically "I had a good time so stop talking about the bad stuff!" I think that's a big reason theyve had the issues they did in recent years. Like mother, like daughter.

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Anonymous wrote:Nobody is saying the school taught it but faculty were required to read Kendi's book, and the school was all about being an "anti-racist institution" for a hot minute. All the employment announcements stated they were searching for "an anti-racist educator". They got older white teachers to make videos about how they realized they had white privilege.

Most of this seems to have evaporated.

Literally 21:18 inferred this. Then again, these days, I don’t even know what CRT is much less what is not CRT since no one can define it and no one has actually seen it being taught. Just on this thread apparently DEI (diversity equity inclusion), anti-racism, and student led workshop on affinity groups are all inferred as being CRT. Up next, history books that talk about slavery or the Bible that says to love thy neighbor as thyself is further proof of CRT.

To the OP, visit the school and have your dd shadow. If your current school has sent kids there, see if the parents would be willing to talk to you about their experiences.

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Anonymous wrote:Nobody is saying the school taught it but faculty were required to read Kendi's book, and the school was all about being an "anti-racist institution" for a hot minute. All the employment announcements stated they were searching for "an anti-racist educator". They got older white teachers to make videos about how they realized they had white privilege.

Most of this seems to have evaporated.

Literally 21:18 inferred this. Then again, these days, I don’t even know what CRT is much less what is not CRT since no one can define it and no one has actually seen it being taught. Just on this thread apparently DEI (diversity equity inclusion), anti-racism, and student led workshop on affinity groups are all inferred as being CRT. Up next, history books that talk about slavery or the Bible that says to love thy neighbor as thyself is further proof of CRT.

To the OP, visit the school and have your dd shadow. If your current school has sent kids there, see if the parents would be willing to talk to you about their experiences.

Yes and wrestling comfortably with DEI issues is hardly unique to SR. All the good private schools in this area have been struggling with how to respond to the BLM in meaningful ways.

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Another knife incident at an MCPS high school. Be grateful you are only dealing with mean girl issues and not violence. I'll take that any day and tell my girl to have a thicker skin.

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Your DD’s chance of being in a knife fight in MCPS? Extremely low. Chance of dealing with SR mean girls on a daily basis? 100 percent!

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Anonymous wrote:Your DD’s chance of being in a knife fight in MCPS? Extremely low. Chance of dealing with SR mean girls on a daily basis? 100 percent!

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Anonymous wrote:Nobody is saying the school taught it but faculty were required to read Kendi's book, and the school was all about being an "anti-racist institution" for a hot minute. All the employment announcements stated they were searching for "an anti-racist educator". They got older white teachers to make videos about how they realized they had white privilege.

Most of this seems to have evaporated.

Literally 21:18 inferred this. Then again, these days, I don’t even know what CRT is much less what is not CRT since no one can define it and no one has actually seen it being taught. Just on this thread apparently DEI (diversity equity inclusion), anti-racism, and student led workshop on affinity groups are all inferred as being CRT. Up next, history books that talk about slavery or the Bible that says to love thy neighbor as thyself is further proof of CRT.

To the OP, visit the school and have your dd shadow. If your current school has sent kids there, see if the parents would be willing to talk to you about their experiences.

Yes and wrestling comfortably with DEI issues is hardly unique to SR. All the good private schools in this area have been struggling with how to respond to the BLM in meaningful ways.

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Anonymous wrote:Your DD’s chance of being in a knife fight in MCPS? Extremely low. Chance of dealing with SR mean girls on a daily basis? 100 percent!

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Exactly. MCPS schools were so much better for our family. No more coming home in tears

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Anonymous wrote:Your DD’s chance of being in a knife fight in MCPS? Extremely low. Chance of dealing with SR mean girls on a daily basis? 100 percent!

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Exactly. MCPS schools were so much better for our family. No more coming home in tears

Except she isn't learning much these days.

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Anonymous wrote:Your DD’s chance of being in a knife fight in MCPS? Extremely low. Chance of dealing with SR mean girls on a daily basis? 100 percent!

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Exactly. MCPS schools were so much better for our family. No more coming home in tears

Except she isn't learning much these days.

There have been 3 stabbing shots at MCPS schools in the last 6 weeks. Fights, gang activity, sex in the bathrooms, lack of teachers, grade inflation and 1.5 years of distance learning.

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Anonymous wrote:Your DD’s chance of being in a knife fight in MCPS? Extremely low. Chance of dealing with SR mean girls on a daily basis? 100 percent!

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Exactly. MCPS schools were so much better for our family. No more coming home in tears

Except she isn't learning much these days.

There have been 3 stabbing shots at MCPS schools in the last 6 weeks. Fights, gang activity, sex in the bathrooms, lack of teachers, grade inflation and 1.5 years of distance learning.

Not at Whitman, where my daughter goes. It's wonderful. I've never heard of the other stuff happening. And she's so much more happy, and functional as well. I think the environment at Stone Ridge was giving her low grade depression.

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Anonymous wrote:Your DD’s chance of being in a knife fight in MCPS? Extremely low. Chance of dealing with SR mean girls on a daily basis? 100 percent!

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Exactly. MCPS schools were so much better for our family. No more coming home in tears

Except she isn't learning much these days.

There have been 3 stabbing shots at MCPS schools in the last 6 weeks. Fights, gang activity, sex in the bathrooms, lack of teachers, grade inflation and 1.5 years of distance learning.

Not at Whitman, where my daughter goes. It's wonderful. I've never heard of the other stuff happening. And she's so much more happy, and functional as well. I think the environment at Stone Ridge was giving her low grade depression.

Right, no one at Whitman is having sex in the bathrooms, doing drugs or fighting. Denial. Besides, Whitman is filled with mean girls esp ‘24. Your daughter probably couldn’t hack it at SR.

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Anonymous wrote:Your DD’s chance of being in a knife fight in MCPS? Extremely low. Chance of dealing with SR mean girls on a daily basis? 100 percent!

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Exactly. MCPS schools were so much better for our family. No more coming home in tears

Except she isn't learning much these days.

There have been 3 stabbing shots at MCPS schools in the last 6 weeks. Fights, gang activity, sex in the bathrooms, lack of teachers, grade inflation and 1.5 years of distance learning.

Not at Whitman, where my daughter goes. It's wonderful. I've never heard of the other stuff happening. And she's so much more happy, and functional as well. I think the environment at Stone Ridge was giving her low grade depression.

Right, no one at Whitman is having sex in the bathrooms, doing drugs or fighting. Denial. Besides, Whitman is filled with mean girls esp ‘24. Your daughter probably couldn’t hack it at SR.

And these are the kinds of lovely parents you find at Stone Ridge, with daughters to match.

Yep, she's much happier at Whitman. And no, there are no fights in bathroom or whatever. And the people are much more civilized, as you can tell from PP!