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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Parent here. Have been mostly happy w GDS HS english and related faculty.

This fall, one of the HS grades as started out by studying the following topics:

Queer Studies, CRT, Marxist Theory, Intersectionality, Structuralism Theory

Serious old person question - why are these taught in ENGLISH rather than in a special elective class? Isn't english for the study of literature. I get it - literature is a window into humanity....but really? I also get it - it's GDS but this is a core class all students must take.

And there was even an op-ed in student paper last week from a student very unhappy with the single-minded bias faculty show and the lack of oxygen they provide for dissenting views.

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[b]This has to be a troll.[/b] Critical race theory is legal scholarship, no way they’d be teaching it in HS English, unless the person teaching it doesn’t understand what it is. Sounds like a Maga trump fan making fun of GDS’ wokism.[/quote]

I'm not OP but can vouch that this Not a Troll post - go to GDS Open House and they happily list the English books per grade. It's really different from any other school. [/quote]

Ugh. Open house for prospective families, bc we missed hearing examples like this or the academics. Or Open House for second month of school parents?  [/quote]

My open houses were pre-covid.  Did they not have virtual open houses during Covid? They used to have subject classes you could visit (but had to pick 3? maybe 4?) and the english teachers always put up the lists of books for 9th grade, 10th grade english.  As I noted - I'd be accused by anyone as far left and woke - and I found the GDS approach to be over the top.  Instead of having a curriculum that is informed by and infused with diversity - it felt the other way around....how can we take everything diverse and cobble a curriculum around it.[/quote]

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