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Right, but you said you want to call the principal and demand removal if your kids encounter a rainbow flag in the classroom. Culturally that would put you very, very far out of the mainstream even for conservatives. I am friends with some very conservative and religious California families and that would never cross their minds.

On the private schools, 6th grade is an admissions year for a lot of them. 7th is less so. Even 6th is hard for the K-8s. I had a friend apply to Keys (another good K-8) and I think they had four spots total for sixth grade available. [/quote]

I was not thinking on "encounter", but rather putting it next to the American flag as if the kids should put those "values" in their minds equally to the American values in general. I brought this as an example of ultra-progressive politics in classrooms, which I don't want my kids exposed to. My kids were never directly exposed into this level of progressiveness all these years in the public school system in NoVA, and I would like to keep it that way. 
I brought the flag example in order for me to understand how "bad" progressiveness is in the Bay public schools compared to NoVA ones. Here whenever these things are happening, are exposed pretty fast by some conservative parents and there's some backlash. The privilege bingo thing was one such example. A couple of days ago, one parent circulated a BLM slideset of teaching middle-school kids as part of Black history month. These are still relative rare here, and my initial question was how rare or frequent they are in the Bay schools.

But I guess this question is now moot, as I am not considering public schools there anymore, and the question is if I can afford a good private one in a commutable area near SV.[/quote]

I understood what you meant, but what I am telling you is that response puts you very far out of even the conservative mainstream here. This “run to the manager” type of response is comparatively rare here because there tends to be a lot of tolerance for expression here. And mind you, this goes the other direction as well; there are very leftist families who don’t support American flags in the classrooms at all, but again, they aren’t running to the principal if they have a teacher with flags. Keep in mind that the Bay Area is very, very diverse, and it is expected that kids will be exposed to a variety of ideas and philosophies. School board meetings here can get fraught, but nothing like what I see described in the DMV school forums on DCUM. That seems totally crazy to me.

It’s not moot, either, because this all applies to the private schools as well.[/quote]

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