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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hi, it's gay dude from the other thread reporting ;)

It is a bit of a coincidence to have two such threads so close to each other but I'll reserve any judgments about trolls because, look, there are plenty of people who share OP's views. Many gays aren't on the whole DEI wagon and don't buy into gender identity arguments. And plenty don't like the notion that queer activists act as if all gays and lesbians have to have identikit progressive left wing beliefs or they're not real gays and lesbians. Whatever.

In the DC area, the Catholics named on the other thread should tick the boxes. As would places like Potomac and SSSA. T[b]he more progressive a school, the more likely kid will feel cultural pressure to confirm himself into the queer for Palestine cliques and start shaving/dying his hair and wearing cut off jean shorts with army boots and the latest queer flag on his tote bag[/b] (I think there's now one with the Palestinian flag). Irony is that progressives are typically the most conformist and non-diverse people there are. [/quote]

I'm OP, and this is largely what I'm talking about. I have no issue with a school being center-left, but progressives have gone way off the rails in the last few years when it comes to cultural issues.

I don't want my child becoming an aggrieved victim or left-wing "activist." However, I also know that there are unfortunately some schools that aren't not accepting of gay kids.

[b]I still want my son to believe in the values of hard work, individualism, perseverance, and traditional values.[/b] You won't be able to instill those values at the "Victim Academies" that exist in DC.[/quote]

Awesome. So when your son is discriminated against, bullied, or harmed in some way, you are going to tell him it is not real and he should just bootstrap himself out of feeling upset about it, right? Please report back in a few years and let us know how that all worked out.

Fwiw, my child attends what you would likely consider one of "Victim Academies" and those values you named are ones that my child is being taught and modeled at this "Victim Academy" with the exception of extreme individualism, because that is actually anathema to the values of the religion (protestant Christian) that the school is affiliated with. I also find it comical that so many Christian conservatives are so hardcore into individualism as a value, given that individualism means very specifically to put yourself first above all else, is pretty anti community, anti charity, and actually technically anti family, but, that tracks for typical GOP/evangelical hypocrisy. [/quote]

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