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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s an international school. There are students from all over the world there from countries that have people of all races and who speak multiple languages. . [/quote]

And yet somehow from all of these countries they can only find mostly white children? Also not sure you can say it reflects the world/global perspectives if there are barely any kids from Africa or Asia. This seems like a very white European definition of what international means. Also, the US is not the only country where conversations about diversity and representation are happening (it matters even in Europe! Look at France as one example) and it’s not about just counting the number of POC. Being an international school should put an even bigger burden on you to be a home for a student body that is a true array of cultures and ethnicities. Several moons ago, WIS used to manage this really really well so it’s not impossible. It’s a choice. [/quote]

I would not enroll a child in the French program at WIS or in any French school if you did not want them subjected to the French perspective of race. There is no way to be immersed in a language and not be immersed in the parts of the culture where the culture is struggling. An American child struggling with being a POC in American society will only struggle more with the added confusion of the French philosophy on race. That said, black French families we know, especially those who plan to return to francophone countries, do not want the American perspective added for the inverse reason, that it will make their children’s lives more difficult.

It is not WIS’s fault that that both French and American cultures struggle with race in different ways. WIS is at the intersection of this struggle with different constituencies wanting different solutions. I simply would not enroll my own child and put my own child in this situation.[/quote]

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