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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And which schools would that be? Because if you think GDS is on this list, I can say as a current parent that the the core curriculum doesn't constantly focus on social justice. In fact, it's at most a minor part and not visible at all in my kid's school work.

Most of the social justice is extracurricular. Plenty if you want it. But not really during school hours.[/quote]
Disagree. Lifer family. Definitely NOT extracurricular. It’s weekly if not daily amongst many subjects and highlighted uRM or LGBTQ professionals, events, viewpoints, articles. [/quote]
LOL, no. You're going to have to provide specifics because that's at complete odds with our kid, whose schoolwork is quite viewpoint and politics-free. There are lots of events in the evenings highlighting the types of speakers you mentioned. But those are for the parents and school community. Not the academic curriculum.

And the vast majority of field trips are like ones you'd find at any other school. Museums, nature visits, etc.[/quote]
We’ve been in the lower school and middle school+ for many years, two children. I continue to disagree with you on many of the field trips, assemblies, social studies units, books read to class. Majority were what was mentioned above- SJ mission oriented.

Perhaps your teachers or children don’t fill you in well; they do like the hands off approach with parents. Or perhaps you came in during Covid shut down or for upper school only. In which case perhaps you can chime in on the two 9-week doses of high school Sex Ed covering “how all the bits fit together” for any type of sex, gender, orientation. [/quote]
Again, what you describe is not "social justice." Is it progressive pedagogy? Yes. Let's take Curriculum Night just as one example. We attend all the sessions. No talk of social justice whatsoever. Just the same boring academic content that you'd see at other school. Not taught in a traditional way, mind you, but the concepts really aren't any different. I've seen the books that my kid reads and none of it is mission-oriented. The social justice content is at most like 10 or 20 percent, depending on grade. Of course that part makes GDS on the whole quite different from most other private schools. The other 80 to 90 percent is similar enough.[/quote]

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