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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]WIS! Some of the people in the WIS community who are most confused by the concepts of being woke are black foreign nationals from places like France, Ghana, Morocco and Nigeria. Thus, there is highly legitimate, non-racist questioning around woke-ness amongst the parents. Where it comes to the students, the teachers and administrators follow the IB to a T.[/quote]

There probably is highly legitimate, non-racist questioning about what people like you call “woke-ness”.

So let’s pause for a moment and think seriously about why you had to reach to “black (sic) foreign nationals” to believe that you could find it.

Note: At least some of those people surely realize that without the efforts of the “woke” their children would not legally be able to attend WIS, since prior to the 1970’s schools were racially segregated.

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There are 7 billion people on this planet. 300m live in America. That means there are over 6 billion who have no clue what you’re talking about. Some of them move here with a focus on bringing energy or health care to people living in horrific poverty. Truly horrific. They have a desire to see their kids grow up with a world perspective, perspectives that you may be ignorant about. Ignorance is why we have education, and we can want to be educated about different parts of humanity and all be good people.[/quote]

I got lost counting the weird, vague generalities in your answer.  So let's take a look.

1.  US media and culture are transmitted by satellite and Internet to every country on the planet.  Only a minority are ignorant of US history and society, not 6 billion.  Look at movie ticket sales worldwide.

2.  Only a tiny minority who come here are involved in aid projects for their home countries. The vast majority in DC and around the US are parents who immigrated for economic opportunity and educational opportunities here. Survey any set of private school parents here.

3.  What is "a world perspective" since there are 200 countries and even more languages and cultures in the world, each with its own history and perspective?  Anyone who has been to more than a handful of countries knows that.

4.  Education about different parts of humanity to be a good person is the foundation of understanding that the world is both a diverse and often unfair place, even moreso in the past than now.  That's the ignorance that modern education aims to l
So whatever point you were trying to make got VERY lost along the way.[/quote]

You are either being obtuse or cannot see that the poster to whom you are responding is clearly part of the international community in D.C. that includes the thousands of people who work at the World Bank, IMF, IFC, etc. who have a more global focus in both their work and personal perspectives and possibly give short shrift to the internecine warfare over wokeness as they are focused on addressing the poverty and problems afflicting billions of people outside the US. It’s pretty easy to see that someone working on poverty alleviation in sub-Saharan Africa or the economic empowerment of women on the Indian subcontinent  might roll their eyes at some of the interminable talkfest over wokeness and want their children to go to a school that shares more of their international outlook. I’m a foreigner myself and find the approach to diversity at my kids’ schools frustrating at times. When my DD was in 4th grade, she told me that at her school you had to have an identity. Of course, that had to fit within certain boxes. I’ve learnt to bite my tongue and focus on whether the academics are good. [/quote]

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