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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm a PP and former Sheridan parent, who agreed with the student's post from page 1.  Several subsequent posters have accused me of feeling threatened by a curriculum that includes "non-white" history or culture.

C'mon.  Is that really what I said?  You _really_ think we'd spend a few hundred thousand on Sheridan if we held the MAGA isolationist "&%$-hole country" view that you're attributing to me in order to make your larger point?

It's a question of degree.  Parents can heartily endorse age-appropriate study of world history and cultures and also want their children to learn more about the country they actually live in.  That doesn't make them nationalists or supremacists.

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Sheridan parent who takes issue with the implication that the school isn’t or wasn’t teaching the kids more about the country they actually live in.  My kids did learn that and they didn’t just learn the white washed version of American history.  My kids are also great spellers and have excellent grammer.  Maybe they pick up on that type of thing easily, I don’t know.  I wasn’t thrilled with everything that Sheridan did, but based on my kids performance in high school, including in advanced and honors classes, Sheridan did well in history and the humanities.  Where I would fault them was at being able to meet the needs of students who were really strong in math and could handle more accelerated math.  My kids wound up in advanced honors and accelerated math in high school, but only because they pursued more challenging work outside school.  When they were at Sheridan we were told that differentiation wasn’t provided because it wasn’t needed.  The comment was “all the kids are strong in math.”  This wasn’t true and fortunately my kids were able to handle moving ahead.  Most of their classmates were a year or two behind.  If your kid isn’t interested in pursuing math or STEM in college it may not be a big deal for your child.  However, if your kid is interested in math or STEM, being behind can hurt them when they are applying with kids who have an A in Calculus A/B or B/C (including by Junior year), and have taken multivariate calculus, differential equations, etc.  My understanding is that changes were being made to the math curriculum and so the issues we encountered may no longer exist.  I also am not a fan of forcing fast acceleration.  Our experience is that they weren’t able to meet the needs of kids who were interested in and could handle moving faster.  In fairness, schools with more students probably have more kids interested in doing that so it is easier to differentiate.  With twice as many kids you can have 4 groups of 10-13 kids versus two groups of 10-13 kids and differentiation is a bit easier.[/quote]

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