NYC private school requiring prospective parents to write essay on DEIA

[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…

A child on the spectrum or with ADHD might might be judged to be incapable of handling the rigors of a particular school. Kids with mild ADHD can do well, but severe ADHD attending a school like Brearley (akin to NCS) is just cruel to the child. This is totally different from judging a child's application based upon whether or not her *parents* can produce a 500-word essay about DEI. As a child of poor immigrants who could have NEVER filled out such an application, I can only imagine how discouraging such a hurdle would be. As a child, I would have had to write the essay for my parents. And I'm guessing that many ambitious young girls who are hoping for a spot at Brearley are doing just that.

[Anonymous]

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.

Well, its student population is 53% minority so maybe it does practice what it preaches?

https://www.usnews.com/education/k12/new-york/the-brearley-school-310164

[Anonymous]

Judging by the responses in this thread, “white fragility” is alive and well!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Well, its student population is 53% minority so maybe it does practice what it preaches?

https://www.usnews.com/education/k12/new-york/the-brearley-school-310164

13% black or Latino combined.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Well, its student population is 53% minority so maybe it does practice what it preaches?

https://www.usnews.com/education/k12/new-york/the-brearley-school-310164

So do those 50+% minority parents have to submit a diversity statement?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Well, its student population is 53% minority so maybe it does practice what it preaches?

https://www.usnews.com/education/k12/new-york/the-brearley-school-310164

You should have pasted all the stats:


47.3% White

21.5% Two or more races

17.5% Asian or Asian/Pacific Islander

6.7% Black or African American

6.7% Hispanic/Latino

0.3% American Indian or Alaska Native

They're counting Asians as minorities when they are overrepresented. Black and Hispanic students are very much underrepresented: NYC is 25% Black and 27% Hispanic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Well, its student population is 53% minority so maybe it does practice what it preaches?

https://www.usnews.com/education/k12/new-york/the-brearley-school-310164

You should have pasted all the stats:


47.3% White

21.5% Two or more races

17.5% Asian or Asian/Pacific Islander

6.7% Black or African American

6.7% Hispanic/Latino

0.3% American Indian or Alaska Native

They're counting Asians as minorities when they are overrepresented. Black and Hispanic students are very much underrepresented: NYC is 25% Black and 27% Hispanic.

Also let's be honest here: two or more races usually means half-white. Proximity to whiteness/having a white parent is a social advantage.

[Anonymous]

This is so gross. A bunch of rich, white parents writing statements on diversity while actively keeping their kids away from the diverse public school population and in a bubble of other rich white kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Well, its student population is 53% minority so maybe it does practice what it preaches?

https://www.usnews.com/education/k12/new-york/the-brearley-school-310164

You should have pasted all the stats:


47.3% White

21.5% Two or more races

17.5% Asian or Asian/Pacific Islander

6.7% Black or African American

6.7% Hispanic/Latino

0.3% American Indian or Alaska Native

They're counting Asians as minorities when they are overrepresented. Black and Hispanic students are very much underrepresented: NYC is 25% Black and 27% Hispanic.

Asians in NYC = 17% . Not over-represented. Why do you think they are?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes, I had to do this for DC’s Va private.

Name it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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/

They should require this at some schools here in DC. These classes are optional and sadly the parents that are exclusive and need these workshops the most often do not attend them when they are optional.

Serious question, what do you think will change by having private school parents take these classes? What will be different?

Exactly. A couple deia classes and then what? It’s all so insane. I grew up in a bad part of dc and was immersed in multiculturalism my whole life. What are these forced classes supposed to accomplish beyond checking a box for the schhol?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Judging by the responses in this thread, “white fragility” is alive and well!

Keep it up! I’m sure you can dissuade a few more folks from agreeing with you with more acerbic, pithy comments like that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Also let's be honest here: two or more races usually means half-white. Proximity to whiteness/having a white parent is a social advantage.

Tell me you know nothing about what it's like to be biracial without saying that you know nothing about what it's like to be biracial.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Well, its student population is 53% minority so maybe it does practice what it preaches?

https://www.usnews.com/education/k12/new-york/the-brearley-school-310164

You should have pasted all the stats:


47.3% White

21.5% Two or more races

17.5% Asian or Asian/Pacific Islander

6.7% Black or African American

6.7% Hispanic/Latino

0.3% American Indian or Alaska Native

They're counting Asians as minorities when they are overrepresented. Black and Hispanic students are very much underrepresented: NYC is 25% Black and 27% Hispanic.

Lots of mixed race and religions today. It’s just another reason all these Identity Labels are divisive and moving American society in the wrong direction.

My kid learned that wearing pink and dolls is too stereotypical and assumptions should not be made. Now she never wears pink nor plays with dolls; she doesn’t want to offend the powers that be.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lots of mixed race and religions today. It’s just another reason all these Identity Labels are divisive and moving American society in the wrong direction.

So tell us, in what decade of history would you say that American society was in the "right direction" regarding race relations?