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NP to this thread; I am NOT the PP to whom you are addressing your questions and comments. But I'd like to jump in with my opinion, as a parent of kids in DC area privates who are expressing the same situations.  (Same school? Possibly.)

The reason that I am paying the exorbitant price that I am for my kids' MS and US-level education is that I expect them to get exactly that - an education. I am not interested in them being preached at, indoctrinated with or introduced to concepts that are controversial and personal at best, and wrong and destructive at worst. School is not the place to discuss one's own or others' sexuality, gender identity, etc. That is something that we handle at home, as a family and within the parameters of our religious, moral and family cultural beliefs.

I understand that there are kids in the school who are not being brought up in the way that mine are, and who have parents who feel differently about the desire to have their kids affirmed by the school in whatever it is they are currently struggling with. However, that should not come at the expense of everyone else's desire for a solid, science-based, well-rounded liberal arts education. How about this - you insist that the curriculum include books on and by trans kids and alternatively structured families; I insist that the curriculum include books on the value of and need to pursue religious truth. Now is everyone happy?[/quote]

It is very easy to pull your kid if you don't like the curriculum. Here is where I disagree with you. Generally speaking, anyone reading this forum was raised in an environment where a lot of our US history was swept under the rug or ignored all together. We were raised with the idea that Catcher in the Rye is a great American classic (which it is, I am not disputing that) but there are other American writers, musicians and philosophers who are not white, not straight, not male, and their perspectives help weave the tapestry that make our country great. If we cannot accept those perspectives and ideas in our schools, then when can we expect our kids to be exposed to ideas and culture outside of their areas of experience? It is really easy to teach an African American kid about James Madison. Why can't we teach a white kid about James Baldwin or [b]Frederick Douglas?[/b][/quote]

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