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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We’re at SSSAS and we genuinely don’t want you. You might be big donors but SSSAS has enough legacy liberal families and POC. You just make a giant fuss over every summer reading book and every history report topic and every book title in the lower school classrooms. You complain every time a kid changes their name. You’re annoying and on the wrong side of history. Read the room. Episcopalians are woke and you’re just not listening. [/quote]

Speak for yourself.  Also at SSSAS and I don’t think your represent the majority.  And I think your probably a weird troll.[/quote]

I've noticed that the left-leaning frequently can't imagine they aren't in the majority. I guess that's natural when you are as sure of the rightness of your politics as many of them are.[/quote]

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It's also natural when you associate only with your fellow left leaning parents, and roll your eyes at normal people who don't judge people based on race, don't want boys in girls sports, and don't think that Trump is the second coming of Hitler.   At too many DC privates, people like this are the norm, and thank God my children are not part of that culture.[/quote]

I’d take it a step further.  We have experience at 4 different privates.  We are right leaning independents.  I do not agree with a lot of the more extreme stuff people describe as woke.  But I don’t feel the need to insert my opinion about it or Trump or politics into conversations with parents.  Every instance in the last 11 years that I can recall where someone has made broad categorizations related to politics have been Democrats lambasting Republicans.  They absolutely assume everyone agrees with them and they just spout off.  Now, I don’t lie and say I agree when I don’t but I do not actively engage.  I don’t want to and it’s not worth it because they aren’t interested in discussing.  Frankly I’m probably not either.  The point is that they assume everyone is a democrat and hates Trump or hates everything Republicans are doing.  It just isn’t true.  And FWIW, I live in Fairfax and my kids were in public for a time and the public school parents were the same.  Those who spoke up were loud and absolutely convinced that they were in the right and also that everyone around them agreed.  It’s kind of wild to see people so completely convinced but also so clearly oblivious.[/quote]

I have the exact same experience, but the other way. I am always shocked by the number of people who assume that I support Trump, hate Biden (and Hilary), think antidiscrimination laws are unnecessary because "I don't see color," and that I approve of the way we are treating human beings who we suspect might be here illegally. I'm white, blonde, and don't wear my Dem card on my sleeve so perhaps I'm viewed as safe to expound to. I'm not denying your experience, but please don't think it's one-sided. It definitely goes both ways. [/quote]

Which school?[/quote]

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