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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you have a white male child, why would you ever send him to a school that makes them feel “white guilt” or they are a “male oppressor” as a 14 year old boy!  All you parents that send your kids to these woke schools deserve what you are getting![/quote]

I send my white male child to a school that is explicitly pro-equity and inclusion. He doesn't feel white guilt. Why should he feel guilty about learning about systemic racism? He didn't create it! And he sure as heck doesn't want to be a part of it. He chooses to be part of the solution, not stick his head in the sand. He feels courageous and helpful and kind, not guilty. And no, he doesn't feel like a "male oppressor." He feels like a young man who sees women as equals, and recognizes that men AND women have been dealt a crappy hand by sexism. He sees what a limited range of emotions his dad was allowed to feel growing up, and how he is now teaching his dad how to be a more open and emotionally aware man. Its really sweet, and they really adore each other. And he sees that women have been excluded from power for oh, the last thousand years or so, and that correcting that may take a minute.

There is no guilt, no shame, and no disempowerment in any of that. I find it so odd that people think that recognizing oppression means you have to identify with the oppressors just because you happen to share their skin color or gender. Why would you do that? [/quote]

That’s nice and good for him.  But unfortunately regardless of how he feels, he will be judged by others and UMR as part of the problem. He will never be accepted and always looked negatively at for having white privilege.   Your son will have to constantly virtue  signal to fit in and will still be seen a part of the problem no matter how much he feels he is not.

At my college they had segregated classes for DEI. UMR where in one session and all “Whites” were in another section called “Unpacking Whitenss”.  You can guess the school as is in the Boston area… basically the Unpacking whistles class basically taught that all whites are oppressors, have white privileged, and everything we do is destructive to society. And historical bad deeds we did are the root problem. [b] Funny as I was born In another country and had nothing to do with systemic racism here.[/b]

In addition, being Jewish I’m am also listed as an “oppressed” class but since I’m white, I’m also and oppressor?  Hmmmm

And coming from a former Soviet republic, being Jewish you were discriminated on a daily basis.
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No one said you personally created it. You benefit from it.

Sounds like you need to take the class.[/quote][/quote]

Look in the mirror, my friend. Every single person at GDS (and Sidwell and NCS/STA, etc.) benefits from it. These schools exist because people didn’t (don’t) want their children mixing with the children of “those” people. They had the money and power to build their own schools so they could pull up the gates against the unwashed masses. They are built on the ideas of exclusion and segregation. 
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Start your own thread. This one is on indoctrination and brainwashing of Pk-12.

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No, this thread is about culture at this particular school.  Whatever statements on the website, book choices for classes and workshops on DEI, the school and those like it exist because parents want a non-diverse, non-inclusive environment. This is why these schools were founded (by white guys, BTW) and they continue on the same path today.
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