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The recent DEI survey was interesting. It was sent to parents, students, and faculty. The questions were all written in the following way: "how well would you say Stone Ridge has been doing in its DEI mission", etc., etc. There were no questions like "do you think that SR should be using the Critical Race Theory framework in designing its DEI initiatives" or "do you think generally that focusing on racial differences is a good or a bad thing." In other words, the survey was essentially written as a fait accompli--that we all agree that Kendi and DiAngelo and CRT are all the goal--now how well are we doing vs. that goal? As several other posters have noted, any questioning of the DEI focus, or the Kendi / anti-racism POV as a framework, is just called racist. Well, to be fair, not called racist; but certainly not up for debate. There was one open-ended question at the end. I hope people were honest there.

It's fascinating, because on the one hand, there is this country club / big donors get away with stuff vibe, and yet on the other, there's this crazy far-left focus on CRT / DEI. The two together make for a very lonely place for average parents who just want their daughters to get a great education and develop meaningful friendships in a relatively sane social environment. That being said, we're sticking it out; I don't really see a good alternative. It seems like all the privates are basically in the same place. And, the teachers (in the high school) are tremendous. At the end of the day, that's all that matters.[/quote]

They're all-in on critical race theory and the anti-racism tropes. The survey was hilarious. We went through it and felt exactly the way you did. Everything was framed from the perspective of normalizing DEI overreach.

What is most unfortunate about SR's DEI work (and, I suspect, that of other institutions), is that it seems to be focused on the experience of only one race, and how that race was treated historically in the United States. The fact that here were Japanese internment camps in this country a lot more recently than there was black slavery is never mentioned, let alone the more history of anti-Korean and anti-Vietnamese sentiment in the United States.

I'd take it a whole lot more seriously if it was actually truly "diverse" instead of being so one-sided.[/quote]

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