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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is there actually some “fancy pants private school” policy or event that people want to debate about as being “too woke?” People already have claws out and hurling insults, but it’s already getting boring because there is no defined topic of debate.[/quote]

Fair point, but I actually think this thread (so far) has been less insult-hurling than might be expected. Maybe a few things were unnecessary (e.g. the FoxNews thing, the thing about Matt Yglesias, and the unnecessarily patronizing use of the word "adorable" [which I immediately regretted]). I do think identifying specific, objective things that have actually happened at a school (not just a fear that something might happen) would move the conversation forward.

OP identified the academic freedom crisis at Hamline, but that's a college situation, not a K-12. And, to be fair, most of those in the academic world (who otherwise overwhelmingly tend to support DEI) agree that the administration made a terrible decision. This was a case of an administration implementing a customer-service model of problem-solving (not upsetting the paying student-customers is the most important criterion in decision-making) rather than truly trying to implement DEI values. A student complained, and that panicked the administration, lest the school be regarded as intolerant. That's not a smart or nuanced approached to an issue of academic freedom.

What has *actually happened* at your area K-12 that has people genuinely concerned that "wokeness" has gone too far. And please no vague nonsense about making kids feel guilty about being white or whatnot. An actual, specific incident, lesson, event, or policy implementation that caused your concern. [/quote]

OP here. To be honest not really. But the recent changes middle school and high school curriculums seem to indicate that they are going in that direction. I mean I don't have the problem with the specific changes they made but the terminology they are using makes me think they have been taken over by DEI types. When I say terminology I am thinking of their use of words like "centering," "your truth," "generational trauma," "microaggressions." "BIPOC"... you get my drift. What's funny is I believe that generational trauma is a real thing but the way it is used these days minimizes actual generational trauma. I don't know if I will pull my girls out but its just getting to be too much for me. Probably the best solution is for me to move back home! But that would require uprooting our lives here. Plus we would need to find jobs which is never easy :) [/quote]

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