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On the point that you want your child to come to their beliefs "naturally". There is no such thing as "natural." Your child will come to their beliefs based on a whole subset of factors.  What you are saying is that you don't want your kid to be too disproportionately left-wing, which is totally your right as a parent, but your kid is still being influenced by a whole subset of society. [/quote]

ALL OF THIS!!!![/quote]

Bingo. Black parent here. I am liberal and supportive of much of the work independent schools are doing to give students an educational foundation that is much broader and more true to history than what has been the norm in this country.

If you think leaving the curriculums as they were historically is the best course of action, then you do not actually think anything was wrong with the way things were done in the past. You would like for things to stay the same because they were not problematic in any way for you. Additionally, if you are uncomfortable with your child learning these things, please spend some time exploring why you are uncomfortable with these things. If any part of your rationale for wanting to avoid activism is that you fear that your children will be traumatized and learn to hate themselves for being white (which is the common refrain from white parents right now about why they are against this sort of instruction), then just say out loud on the record "I don't care that nonwhite children are currently raised to hate themselves for being nonwhite and are traumatized daily by our white supremacist culture and curriculum. I would prefer to continue with status quo because that benefits my children." Because, truly, if learning about these sorts of things is harmful for your children, it is because you KNOW the reality is that non white children are harmed by how we've done things so far. Just own it and stop trying to pretend it is anything else. [/quote]

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