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[quote=Anonymous]The richest people are invested in the school being number one on lists and getting their kids into the 3 legacy slots for Yale. They don’t want controversy because it would hurt the school’s reputation so they slander anyone who asks questions or is concerned.

For others, it’s hard. People are scared of the school, because it is known to be retributive toward families and their kids. They aren’t transparent so you don’t know a lot of what’s going on, and they don’t invite you to know. If you are on fin aid, you don’t feel you have the right to complain.

. On a human level, a lot of people work really really hard to give their daughter’s something great, and it’s a heartbreak to let go of that. It’s your kid, time and money, hard to think straight when those three are involved, especially if you think you won them a shiny golden ticket straight to success. People haven’t been all that nice to me there, but I still feel for them.

The Romeo and Juliet conversation, like many of these types of arguments, misses the forest through the trees. Picking on one tiny piece of an argument rather than digesting it is a debate trick for a studio audience, but it’s not thoughtful. Just like assuming someone is motivated by racism, etc. The first book I complained about being removed from curriculum was Roll of Thunder Head My Cry. Another? Elie Wiesel’s Night. The book they replaced Roll of Thunder with was written by a white woman living in California about indigenous people. It was so bad, but its politics were right. The history and social studies curriculum is so weak compared to the school I sent my daughter into, it’s depressing.

I have a lot of theories about the changes. A weak board, the rot filtering down from ivy league admissions, the weird world of corporate education pseudoscience, a retiring head who wanted to settle some old grudges on her way out the door, trust in elite teachers colleges that spend more time on theory than student teaching, the replication crisis, 2020 — it was a cluster of things, but the main point is that I was in meeting after meeting with consultants and listened as alum after alum, parent after parent, emphasize how much they wanted a great books curriculum only for them to hire the person who did the anti-racist equity audit. Even before that person was onboarded, the school rewrote all of its discipline codes, changed its sex-ed, doubling down again and again on DEI at the expense of academics while every other school in NYC scooted away from wellness philosophy style learning. There is no accountability in the system. For all we know, test scores have flatlined over the past few years. (I actually would not be surprised.) Meanwhile the individual potential of very smart girls isn’t being cultivated or challenged. The admissions team and the really interesting group of kids they curated are being kicked to the curb.

It’s just not a healthy institution. I wish it was -/ for my kid and her friends sakes. I just want to give people the warning I wish I had. That’s my axe to grind, a fair warning to others.

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