Is there an independent school that exposes children to non-European cultures and religions?

[Anonymous]

Holton is one school that has a very global focus as someone earlier mentioned. They have a whole global summer program and someone has the job as "Global Director". They have multiple languages and people representing nearly every imaginable ethnicity.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I found one: The High School for Global Citizenship
883 Classon Avenue Brooklyn , NY 11225
Phone: [phone] Fax: [phone]

maybe Op could move up there

Is this the same Brooklyn school that has an Arabic immersion curriculum, where the director got run out because of (falsely) presumed connections to Islamists? Might be a great place for OP to hone her anti-Americanism and fuel her self-righteous anger about intolerant Americans. OP, start packing!

[Anonymous]

Yes OP, you're right. No school in DC or the burbs teaches foreign literature, history or languages. And this only because, as you say, we all hate foreigners. All of us hate foreigners. Those comments about how you should go home were because we hate foreigners in general and had absolutely nothing to do with your comments about Latin America, public schools or the utter worthlessness of US history.

There are schools, public and private, that teach foreign language and culture. I admit they could do more. But the reason for shortfalls is that public and private emphasize math and English because that's what the SATs and colleges want. It's not purely, as you keep saying, that we're all xenophobes.

This isn't about multiculturalism. Instead this is about you and your need to feel superior to Americans, by avoiding their history and literature.

[Anonymous]

If this were really about OP's desire for multiculturalism, she'd offer a coherent explanation for why WIS doesn't meet her needs. Or explain why she's not interested in Latin America.

And she'd stop pretending she didn't notice the Chinese courses when she toured Sidwell and other schools. (Do the Sidwell kid's just read Hemmingway in Chinese? Because apparently there's no foreign literature there or at any other school.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:WIS does not sound like OP's cup of tea. It's very Western, privileged ruling class Western at that. Sidwell has a junior year or semester abroad program, it's part of the culture. I'm not sure there is a DC private that's as global as OP would like.

OP should check out an IB high school. International curriculum. But many people from Asia and India etc live in NOVA in areas without IB and don't want it. Research TJ or find a public school pyramid [elementary to middle to high school] with a high concentration of the preferred nationality. Some one did mention the Islamic Saudi Academy. Many families of Chinese or Korean descent go to Saturday school. Many families target the pyramids with the best test scores.

[Anonymous]

What I do detest are foreigners who reap the benefits of our riches here in the USA and they gripe all the way to the bank...let me guess...OP lives in Potomac...oh my, it's just so terrible and Americans are horrible aren't they all?

[Anonymous]

Whereas I despise natives who continue to lend credibility to the Ugly American stereotype....

[Anonymous]

We weren't the ones complaining pp. It was someone who came to this country, presumably freely, and decides it is inferior.

[Anonymous]

But you're the one(s) behaving in a hateful way.

OP asked whether there was a school with a particular type of curriculum in this area. She's looking for a curriculum that more closely resembles her own education. Lots of us would like to see our kids get an education similar to our own (and lots of us would like to see our kids get a very different education from our own, LOL!)

"Our own" varies -- as do our preferences. Not need to go all nativist on someone you disagree with.

[Anonymous]

yes, yes prissy pants.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:But you're the one(s) behaving in a hateful way.

OP asked whether there was a school with a particular type of curriculum in this area. She's looking for a curriculum that more closely resembles her own education. Lots of us would like to see our kids get an education similar to our own (and lots of us would like to see our kids get a very different education from our own, LOL!)

"Our own" varies -- as do our preferences. Not need to go all nativist on someone you disagree with.

Nope. OP called us all ignorant several times; claimed her education was superior when actually they probably studied western culture and her own culture (I'm still waiting for an answer to how much time they spent on Africa, because unless she's African I doubt it was much); and ridiculed the idea of spending a whole year on US history.

She's the hateful one. I've lived abroad and speak several languages. And while I have some great foreign friends, I definitely recognize her sort of anti-American superiority when I see it. Note this isn't an argument the US is always right, cause it isn't. But it is an argument that some foreigners, like OP, like to hate us and to think they're superior.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP sounds like a real snot to me.
1. She doesn't include Latin Americans in her definition of multicultural.
2. Public school, where her kid would meet actual Somalis or Africans or Hispanics (oops) isn't good enough for her.
3. WIS isn't good enough because there's still a western focus. Or maybe it's all the Spanish speakers there that people on this thread have mentioned.
4. She says that a year is too long to spend on 200 yrs (did we forget the Indians and pilgrims) of US history. Ignoring the fact that in any school her kid attends, he/she is going to be a small minority in a class of Americans who DO think it's important.
5. Teaching Chinese or Arabic, and my kid's school offers both, is not good enough. For reasons she can't be bothered to convey to us.

In other words, US private schools toss out all that US-focussed garbage and focus their curricula on OP's needs. (Whatever they are, it's unclear if she wants multiculturalism without the Hispanics, or a multicultural school.)

Which school, if I may ask? And what grade does it start in? I've been looking everywhere for Arabic courses.

[Anonymous]

22:00 again. And if you don't recognize her snooty superiority, then you haven't lived abroad. And I don't really understand why you excuse OP's egregious bad behavior on this thread.

From a poster who generally cringes about US foreign policy and has worked at a multilateral institution and travelled extensively, loving most of it except for the 5% of superiority junkies who are like OP.

[Anonymous]

to 22:05 - our MCPS offers Arabic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:to 22:05 - our MCPS offers Arabic.

Which one(s)?