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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Isn't this an overblown response to a few students getting assigned the wrong role? [/quote]

No. There is a ton of discontent at SE. I think they could lose a large chunk of the students there. For the first time, the privileged kids who go there (mostly whites families from Capitol Hill) realize that they are getting the short end of the stick. I think quite a few of them will not return — some will decamp for NW, but others for different schools.[/quote]

This gets threatened every year, but it does not happen. I’m have an upper level kid at NW who’s getting plenty of short stick, but we’ve got no better options so here we are[/quote]

I have a brown upper level student in NW too and it's not great. She, along with her very few brown peers are overlooked, don't get offered the same performance opportunities to their white counterparts and generally go about unseen... I have no doubts it's much worse at SE. We've been looking elsewhere for the last year and still searching. So far Seber seems the most promising, but I haven't gotten enough feedback to trust the same won't happen there. We had already made the leap from another studio years ago to twsb for its diversity and commitment to equity and inclusion, but if I had a dime...[/quote]

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