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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"Issues like racism, sexual harassment..they would've lost their federal funding."

You obviously live under a rock.  [/quote]

Seriously?  These issues have to do with federal law, but nobody at NCS wants to admit that there is a real problem.  And yet everyone else in town is talking all about it.

https://www.stopbullying.gov/laws/federal/[/quote]

Oh please. NCS handles these issues better than most. In fact part of the problem is that I don't think having clubs and groups based on race helps build a united community. That's the case I think at many schools nowadays. I think at one point in time the idea of having clubs and organizations at schools based on race were probably helpful and a great idea. However, now with such a global society and with so many different ethnicities and religions at these schools, it seems impossible to have a group for each ethnicity. Therefore some have them and some do not. It's just an observation that I have made and our family is diverse. I would suggest all schools should have clubs and organizations solely based on interests and not on race to unite students.[/quote]

NCS handles these issues better than most? Well that does not set that bar very high now does it? The lower school had to incidents of the N-word being written on a bathroom stall in the 4th grade hall. African American girls were distraught and inconsolable when the incident was exposed to them.  Head of Lower School promised to keep families apprised regarding the situation and how the school would address issues of race.  **Crickets** until it happens a second time.  More of the same and now the year has ended and it was never mentioned again. Your concern over affinity groups for children of a minority ethnic groups seems to stand on shaky ground with these incidents in their rear view.  I can guarantee that having to experience the grief of such an ugly word, twice no less, in front of other children that couldn't not grasp the depth of the experience, was more polarizing than a club for girls to feel supported and understood in a large community. [/quote]

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