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[quote=Anonymous]I’m a GDS alumnae. By high school, a GDS student should be reading a lot of literature outside the curriculum. The English classes are fairly broad but they are preparing students to excel as college students. Your list is of a bunch of academic theories and movements that are prominent right now inside and outside of academia and I can see why the English department might think a semester’s deep dive is a good idea. If you want to make a critical assessment of something, you have to know what it is. When I was a student they assigned big chunks of the Bible in English 9 so that we would be able to recognize and explore its reflection in art and literature. That was appropriate too. Bottom line, if you’re worried about “indoctrination” it makes more sense to focus on the lower school. If you want an English class where students just read and analyze books without engaging any kind of academic theory, you’re at the wrong school. [/quote]
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