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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's a race to the bottom to see who can be more woke. As a second tier school SR has to keep up with the big players in this market who are all-in with wokeness. [/quote]

If you followed the “Black@“ and “LGBTQ@“ Instagram accounts created last summer by current and former students from GDS, Potomac, Sidwell...you’d know SR was pretty much on par with the first tier schools. The difference may be they’re trying harder to address those issues given the emphasis on social justice at SR coupled with their desire to be a first tier school. It’s good to teach the girls how NOT to discriminate. Our best colleges and employers really like good global citizens.

As for TKAM, Lee wrote “Go Set a Watchman” for a reason - to illustrate Atticus’ racism. They really should be taught together. A bit much for MS? Oprah called TKAM America’s novel. If taught as a story of privilege, maybe. Teaching it that way anywhere at SR? Watch “those” committee moms burst into flames! Let’s go with “The Bluest Eye.”

We are a mixed race, Center Left, non-Catholic family who chose SR (over the first tier and other girls schools) because we wanted a K-12 girls school with a spiritual component. Not small, not big. Solid education. Strong social justice focus. It wasn’t perfect, and I raised inclusion concerns while there which I have expressed on this forum. Can’t say I was a popular parent, AT ALL, but I can say they listened and supported our daughter. She read everything from Homer to Toni Morrison and she’s crushing it at a top college.

Go Gators for trying to be better. 
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