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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As a former SWS parent, from the pre-woke times, I believe what PP says about the environment.  It sounds like SWS has changed a lot over the years, but if one thing has remained the same it is the cult-like environment.  PP, please know that in other schools, parents are not scared to challenge the administration or teachers.  [b]This sort of environment is really toxic. I’d argue that it is also counter to Reggio principles, which are supposed to encourage critical thinking![/b]  [/quote]

NP here. We used to attend a charter school mentioned on this thread that is currently experiencing significant leadership struggles. The environment was eerily similar among parents and teachers--even though critical thinking was supposedly prioritized, parents were afraid to speak out against glaring issues with the school (particularly around COVID, when the former HOS refused to open in person). It was bizarre to me.[/quote]

The challenge at that school (good riddance, DOCTOR K) and SWS and many others is that demographic advantages cover all manner of sins during the ECE years. I don't know that parents are afraid to challenge the school as much as they don't see a need to do so while things are going well. You look pats the SJW nonsense at SWS and the expeditionary crap at other unnamed schools because your kid is progressing and gets contact with kids from different walks of life. Then 2nd or 3rd grade and hormones hit and you start to hear about behavioral issues. You start to realize classroom management is not the string suit of these schools. You start to understand that the foundation of "equity, equity, EQUITY" that was a buzzword in ECE is a shield and sword used to shut up anyone who dissents. That's when kids leave. For BASIS, Latin, privates and the burbs. The cycle repeats. None of this is new. What I believe happened was that COVID exacerbated the behavioral and learning challenges and exposed the fiction that screaming equity solves anything. [/quote]

Wrong! This equity based programming is in place to ensure that sheltered white students don’t end up being racists and afraid of black folks like their parents.[/quote]

Troll better my friend. [/quote] Why is it that whenever anyone mentions anything about race, white folks get upset? Ask yourself why you’re getting upset when black people call out racism. Could it be that you’re guilty of being a racist?[/quote]

There aren’t hours enough to respond to your blanket generalization, but it is clear that throwing out the word “racism” at any opportunity, even when inapplicable, is a strong cudgel employed (sometimes in bad faith) to end reasonable discourse.

Even if there is merit to saying that SWS is watering down academic vigor based on nebulous equity goals, your ability to stifle the conversation with shame based tactics by simply throwing out claims of “racism” is getting tired.

But that’s the world we live in. There is a political rightward drift across the world, partly probably because people feel that the left wing has gone completely overboard with these shame based attacks on free speech or on not allowing any constructive criticism. Obviously, hate speech has consequences and is terrible, but merely trying to objectively discuss whether policy is good or bad, and having ad hominem attacks used to shut down conversation is making people annoyed.
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