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Some others have responded to our exchange, but I'm the pp you were responding too. It sounds like what you really don't want is to be part of the extremely polarized and contentious debates occurring across the United States - often in school board meetings - at this moment in history. These fierce debates, whether they're about BLM, banning books, masks or whatever, are everywhere right now. Your comments suggest, though you may not perhaps intend this, that you perceive these contentious fights to be happening primarily in liberal communities, like that of San Francisco. But that's just not true. Plenty of conservative communities are roiling too. You can't avoid the culture wars by avoiding liberals.

Whether you find your life experience peaceful or not is really going to be about the decisions you make, just as it is in Virginia. Don't engage if people try to pull you into some local battle about BLM or what books to ban this week. If you want a "quiet and safe life" then have one. [/quote]

I'm not suggesting that this is happening only in liberal communities. I see it happening here in Fairfax, which I think it is considered "more moderate" compared to SF Bay area. As an immigrant, I am staying out of these polarized debates. I consider my family having a "quiet and safe life" here in Fairfax.

However, my family has certain conservative values, and I don't want to be part of a community where my values are not respected (or ostracize me to Fresno as someone above wrote). Having my kids being taught that BLM and that they should tell their pronouns, would mean that I would have to tell them that ALM and never say their pronouns, and I don't want to go into this slippery slope. And I think Fairfax schools still maintain some balance with respect to these issues.

I was also reading some other posts here in this Bay Area subforum, about prop 13, underfunded schools, SF Bay not being much family-friendly etc. so overall I'm getting convinced that moving there is not a good thing for me and my family, especially since a $200K - $250K income there is considered low, and as many have said, public education quality is much lower than NoVA. Would like to hear a positive argument for me moving there though!

[quote=Anonymous]Idk about privilege bingo. I don’t think people would really care much. They might roll their eyes. School politics are less fraught than in VA, at least that’s my impression from California. My kids have never had a privilege bingo but I would not care if they did.

You likely will not get into any good private schools. Not because of being conservative, but because they are so competitive.[/quote]

This is the "privilege bingo" story I was talking about
https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/northern-virginia/privilege-bingo-in-fairfax-co-class-meets-controversy-after-it-includes-being-a-military-kid/2942443/
FCPS apologized for this.
Do you think this would be acceptable in SV schools? Or maybe just nobody would raise an issue in the first place because such things are considered "normal" to be taught there?[/quote]

I did an exercise like that in private conservative Catholic school in the 1980s. But my SV kids have never done anything like that. I would not care if they did. Shrug. [/quote]

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