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You don't seem to be absorbing the point. The issue isn't the "progressive stuff" built into the curriculum or not. You will find some variety of progressivism in most if not all schools in the Bay Area (even parochials tend to have social justice curriculum elements). So if you literally want a curriculum with absolutely no progressive elements at all, you cannot come to California.

But I suspect that there are progressive elements in Fairfax curriculums as well, so I don't think the issue at heart is actually a progressive curriculum. The difference is how you expect to deal with it. You seem to believe you should be able to direct a principal to do what you want, and maybe that is true in VA. But it's not true in CA, and puts you extremely far outside the mainstream, even for conservatives (or the very leftist families, for that matter).

This approach of running to the principal/social media/school boards the minute your kids encounter a challenging idea is not tolerated here much. [/quote]

I am keeping your opinion as a datapoint regarding this matter. But I would also like to hear from someone who had kids both in NoVA and in SV to directly compare.

[quote=Anonymous]May I ask what turns a Black History Month lesson into a Black Lives Matter lesson in your mind?[/quote]

The teacher who made that slideset and sparked the controversy should answer this question..

[quote=Anonymous]OP, you should be looking at jobs in TX and not CA. TX schools seem to be more what you're looking for. There are plenty of IT jobs for H-1b workers in ATX, DAL, or HOU. The S Asian community is big in both of the latter cities - particularly HOU. TX cities themselves can be progressive but also have very conservative pockets.

Your salary is not high enough for Mountain View and given your aversion to things like racial, gender, sexual orientation equality taught in school, you would find TX School Board to be your bag. [/quote]

I don't have a job offer from TX. The offer is from SV. My options are either stay in NoVA or go to SV.[/quote]

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