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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^^^No-but I don’t want my DC in an environment where being PC all day long is more valued than being themselves-having to watch everything you say and do 100% of the time is not the experience I want for them. And the book censoring was over the top.[/quote]

I don't think you're cut out for GDS.

There's a real culture of rhetorical engagement there. I think what you're noticing is that if something comes up that kids perceive to be an attack on a classmate or whatever, they're going to challenge it at every turn. IMO the culture completely supports challenging back, but only on the basis of a real argument. You can't just be annoyed that someone called you out and that you were just "being yourself." Being "PC" is just giving a shit about other people. There are fewer politically conservative students there, but they are engaged all the time in substantive argument and discussion, if they want to be.

As for the "book censoring," censoring a book is totally un-GDS and is not what was described. Texts at every grade level are challenging and provocative and I suspect this book had a passage that wouldn't fly at all in many other schools and the teacher gave students a heads up in case they wanted to avoid a rape scene, or whatever it was. I have mixed feelings about that approach but I can guarantee it would be open to discussion and challenge by the students. [/quote]

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