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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.

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

In a sense, those parents here who disagreed with the privilege bingo and the BLM slides basically "ran to the manager". I think there are some parents associated with GOP who are actively looking for the slightest thing to make some noise. Personally, I would prefer solving such issues with the principal rather than posting photos in social media and DCUM, but fortunately, I never had this dilemma in front of me.

But more about your last sentence: yes if that private school has those progressive stuff built in its curriculum, then it is automatically excluded from my consideration. From my understanding from various pp's, parochial schools are generally more moderate with regards to this stuff, much like Fairfax public schools.[/quote]

You don't seem to be absorbing the point. The issue isn't the "progressive stuff" built into the curriculum or not. You will find some variety of progressivism in most if not all schools in the Bay Area (even parochials tend to have social justice curriculum elements). So if you literally want a curriculum with absolutely no progressive elements at all, you cannot come to California.

But I suspect that there are progressive elements in Fairfax curriculums as well, so I don't think the issue at heart is actually a progressive curriculum. The difference is how you expect to deal with it. You seem to believe you should be able to direct a principal to do what you want, and maybe that is true in VA. But it's not true in CA, and puts you extremely far outside the mainstream, even for conservatives (or the very leftist families, for that matter).

This approach of running to the principal/social media/school boards the minute your kids encounter a challenging idea is not tolerated here much. [/quote]

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