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[quote=Anonymous]My son is at a school with a DEI office, kindness initiatives, and a place who makes space for special populations and will go to bat for their students. But the families are definitely more centrist to conservative.

That said, my kid is in 9th grade and I've been disappointed in some of the things I've heard him suggest about gay people. We're a progressive (albeit traditional) family. We've had gay couple friends through the years and have included our children in those relationships. I'm not sure where these opinions are coming from outside of peer influence (or freaking social media). If my kid has a friend who is struggling with their sexual identity, or a gay peer, my kid and his friends would not be an accepting group for that student.

I say this to you because you might think you want to avoid "woke" schools, but if those places have cohorts who are genuinely supportive of your kid, isn't that preferred to a cohort of kids who might tolerate your kid to their face, but at best keep them at arms length and not befriend them?

PS. For anyone who is worried about our kid, we're super unhappy with his views at the moment and are working on it. We think part of this is due to being 14 years old, but some of it is definitely coming from "anti-woke" peer influence. [/quote]

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