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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Progressive schools do not invite debate acknowledging that both sides of many political issues have valid points, and encourage students to think critically and be able to appreciate, articulate, and argue from multiple perspectives.  Instead, any dissent is “hate.”  Backward and the opposite of critical thinking.[/quote]

Isn't there a difference between schools that practice progressive education and schools that have progressive politics? Or is there not?[/quote]
There tends to be an overlap in part because progressive schools are inherently open to challenging the status quo with regard to pedagogical techniques. Children become active participants in their own learning, as opposed to vessels to be filled by higher-status adult teachers, which complicates (but does not eliminate) hierarchical relationships. Not surprisingly, people who are open to this model of education tend to be more liberal politically.
I consider myself to be very liberal politically, but as a long-time professor in the humanities, it really bothers me when I see the policing of ideas from both the left and the right, but more from the left because it is so blindly hypocritical. I send my own children to a well-known liberal and progressive independent school, but I am unhappy knowing that there is definitely an atmosphere where students are afraid to ask or test out controversial ideas--and quick assumptions that clumsy language is ill-intended--because of fear or reprisal from students and faculty.[/quote]

Do you ever voice your concerns or do anything besides be unhappy and bothered? Do you ever say anything to your children?
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Of course. This is one advantage of having a parent who is a professor. We have good conversations at home where my kids are free to ask all the questions they want and to test ideas that they are afraid to at school, where they very well may be "cancelled" by classmates and teachers.[/quote]

No, do you ever speak up at the school about what bothers you about the atmosphere there? Do you ever acknowledge to your kids that their school is not a safe place to speak their minds? Do you ask them how they feel about being in that environment every day?
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You are really pushy. Are you this exhausting IRL?[/quote]

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