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I have to respectfully disagree — I do think it’s changed what is being taught and how it is taught.

The old curriculum was really rich and deep and had a lot of really great writers they no longer teach, including a number of Black ones. They didn’t expand what they teach so much as gut and replace it with new stuff that I find lightweight, or to be more charitable, less thought provoking than what they were teaching when we enrolled. My daughter and her friends complain about it all the time. They call one book they read about turtles and the power of indigenous women “The Dreck That Ruined Summer.”

I honestly don’t think I would have chosen it based on what it is now, but my daughter is old enough to make her own choices. She has good friends and is happy. After 7th, she knew she had a choice and looked at other places and decided to stay with her friends. She’s also a musician and truly loves the music department, which is totally top notch.

STEM people have different concerns, and I don’t know anything other than what I have already stated in previous posts, and it’s all second hand.

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wrote the stuff about the math curriculum complaints, and my kid still is there, so —- yeah, not sure about the bullying.

FWIW, the school announced it was shifting emphasis and told the parents it was going to and then did, so that’s just…a fact?

Again, not a quant, but the parents complaining have the types of girls who might end up at MIT. One trying to apply out.

Also, equity practices have had an effect on math scores, and I know that because I read an article about how it played out in San Francisco, where the changes they made in the name of equity tanked test scores and widened the racial gap. It’s not some weird right wing conspiracy theory. It was in the NYTimes. 
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“Equity practices” and “shifting emphasis” - kind of a broad brush.  It’s not a one size fits all thing.  For STEM, I know there’s a debate about what age to start splitting people into different groups.  That’s partly an equity question but not exclusively.  I don’t think you’ll find that the high school curriculum is somehow weaker than it used to be.

Personally I’d didn’t love the parent DEI stuff when it was the outside consultants.  But I never found myself doubting the quality of what was happening in the classroom. [/quote][/quote]

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