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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t want to say where my daughter is going because I don’t want to out her even retroactively.

I also in the past, convinced 2 families their  very smart lovely daughters who reminded me of my own and would love it, too and now feel guilty. I am not going to vouch for a school until I am totally sure I am right. I might not ever again. I unlike some of the these schools feel responsible to little ones.

I was so wrong, and Brearley changed so much so fast, that I just don’t think I could do it with integrity. They wrote that they were doing a full on equity audit and becoming an anti-racist school and I didn’t really take in that might change the way they taught 3rd grade writing or completely overhaul a curriculum they’d spent a 100 years building.

My one piece of good advice is to look at linked in and glassdoor, see if the place you are interested in has faculty that has been there for decades. The head of the learning skills at Brearley has switched like 3 times in 5 years. That’s person making academic decisions bout your kid. No way that person knows nothing about 600 girls if it changes every year, so your kid is just a document to them or what some psych person said.

I didn’t care about DEI or dislike it very much until all this. I know a lot more know about equity vs merit than I ever wanted to because I just wanted to figure out what was going on with my kid. Other parents have just assumed that I am coming from misguided conservatism, but it’s not actually accurate.

I don’t have an axe to grind, I am
disappointed.
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I agree that consistency in the head of learning skills would be ideal, but from what we learned while applying, the learning skills department is for kids who need remedial work.  Wouldn't the people making academic decisions for most of the kids be the Academic Dean, school heads and teachers?[/quote]

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