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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Gds is super liberal and talked about different family structure every year since pre-K. Is Sidwell similar or less liberal?[/quote]

Not sure I understand your question or accept your premise(s).  Are you asking about same-sex families?  If so, then yes.  My kid has been at Sidwell for several years, and the topic of same-sex families and gets raised often in books or assemblies or other discussions.  But at least as far as I've noticed, it's raised in just a passing way - for example one of the characters will have two moms.

I don't recall an assembly or intentional discussion in the younger grades that is focused on explicitly forcing children to acknowledge that same-sex relations are just as valid as others (and quite frankly, I think that would be a pretty awkward and ineffective teaching approach).  Is that the comparison point you're trying to drive ... whether there are elementary school assemblies designed to preach a particular viewpoint on same-sex relationships?

I'm not sure I follow whee you're going, so forgive me if I've missed your point.

Also, as an IMHO aside, if you think young children growing up in this area need education about the validity and normalcy of same-sex relationships, then I think you're maybe missing what's going on around us.  My kids and their friend seem to accept same-sex relations with a shrug and a "whatever," as just another crayon in the box.  I think our generation as parents imbues them with a lot more context and significance (both positive and negative) than our kids do.[/quote]

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