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[quote=Anonymous]The academic head at Brearley started two years ago and is implementing an anti-racist culturally competent pedagogy.

I loved the old academic head who retired, but the new one is not my cup of tea. The DEI director was at Bank Street before this, also not my cup of tea (he’s nice, but Bank Street is just not a curriculum I believe in or would think would work for my kid).he and the psych department weirdly have a lot of power over what happens on campus and what is and is not taught and what students move from one grade to the next.

It used to be one person of had their own little kingdom, Admissions, Lower School, but now every little thing — can we say the pledge of allegiance — goes through a committee and they won’t tell you who is on it, but they get to decide if material is anti-racist enough to be taught or if say the way they teach math facilitates belonging and equity. That’s not exactly “let’s try to get everyone’s math scores above a 700 by junior year” mentality they had when we applied and it’s unclear how the kids who start now will fair because it’s a totally new program.

Math teacher sounds fantastic in comparison. If the academic director was really on point, head would matter less. It’s just that people in charge, head of school, academic dean, dean of faculty, DEI, admissions and head of the psych department, have all started in past 5 years and most have almost has no background at all as a teacher or admin in a TT school with a traditional focus.

It’s just all over the place and I can’t imagine isn’t going to have longterm effects to have admitted and recruited people to one kind of school, only to quickly gut it and restart it as another. You can reboot a computer, but you cant turn it back on if you throw out the hard drive.

school is relatively new, but the head of academics Eric Z has been there for many years. He led the math department before. I think the academics head at Brearley has a history background?  I think Eric is really smart with the program design that aligned with the broader girls in STEM trend in the past decade, and that really helped their college outcomes.[/quote][/quote]

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