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Anonymous wrote:If you are applying to Holton, take a serious look. Susanna Jones is leaving but not until 2023. It should be interesting who ends up with her job. They are afraid of the big bad wolf. You would not believe. Just peruse the instagram accounts of some of the students.

You're encouraging adults to browse the ig of teens?

YES! Don't you check your kid's IG?!

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Anonymous wrote:I’m going to pull my hair out if it is Holton. We have remained silent over many thing there but this would be a bridge too far. I think it would be sad if they suddenly decided that there is wrong with the word girl. Should be a source of pride.

I would also like to know if it is Holton. We are in the process of applying, precisely because we want a girls school, and this, if true, would give me serious pause.

No matter where you send your child, there will be other kids at the school pushing for the same thing. Even at boys schools, certainly at co-ed schools. Pay more attention to how the administration handles these sticky, student-driven advocacy moves.

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone with children younger than 10 has not fully been exposed to this wide ranging trend. It is ripping through our pre-adolescent and adolescent girls at an incredibly high rate. It is now cool to be bisexual, transgender, and queer. Apparently lesbian and gay are out of fashion. I mean, they get to fly a rainbow flag. How cool is that? I asked my “daughter” what flag do I get to fly and she said the straight flag was black and white. That’s what I get?

I figure if she can get someone else to call her by a different name and use different pronouns, that’s on her. We are just ignoring it at home. This is a child with zero gender issues from birth to age 15.

Still, I wonder what will happen in these girls schools. They will not be insulated from it. As I mentioned above, I hope the schools take a hard stand and mostly ignore it. There’s no way I can remember the preferred pronouns in my daughters circle of (girl)friends. Let alone being a teacher with 100+ kids to remember. If you look like a girl, I will use female pronouns. If you look like a boy, I will use male pronouns. And if we decide as a society we want to update our language then that’s going to take a few years. Pronouns are not offensive by their nature.

Really hoping this far dies out before too many years pass

+1000

While Rome burns, this is what your $45K tuition a year at Holton will get you. You "ladies" and your "girls" do realize that China is kicking our asses in STEM, right?"

Totally off topic, bue who cares if other nations also develop great STEM? It improves the lives of all. I'm tired of drummed up nationalist "fights." World Peace!

Anonymous wrote:Thank God it isn't Stone Ridge. I hope they stay off that track. We hope to enroll our daughter this year.

PS Because it is a school that goes as young as K, I sincerely doubt they would ever adopt this on a whole school level.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m going to pull my hair out if it is Holton. We have remained silent over many thing there but this would be a bridge too far. I think it would be sad if they suddenly decided that there is wrong with the word girl. Should be a source of pride.

I would also like to know if it is Holton. We are in the process of applying, precisely because we want a girls school, and this, if true, would give me serious pause.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anyone with children younger than 10 has not fully been exposed to this wide ranging trend. It is ripping through our pre-adolescent and adolescent girls at an incredibly high rate. It is now cool to be bisexual, transgender, and queer. Apparently lesbian and gay are out of fashion. I mean, they get to fly a rainbow flag. How cool is that? I asked my “daughter” what flag do I get to fly and she said the straight flag was black and white. That’s what I get?

I figure if she can get someone else to call her by a different name and use different pronouns, that’s on her. We are just ignoring it at home. This is a child with zero gender issues from birth to age 15.

Still, I wonder what will happen in these girls schools. They will not be insulated from it. As I mentioned above, I hope the schools take a hard stand and mostly ignore it. There’s no way I can remember the preferred pronouns in my daughters circle of (girl)friends. Let alone being a teacher with 100+ kids to remember. If you look like a girl, I will use female pronouns. If you look like a boy, I will use male pronouns. And if we decide as a society we want to update our language then that’s going to take a few years. Pronouns are not offensive by their nature.

Really hoping this far dies out before too many years pass

+1000

While Rome burns, this is what your $45K tuition a year at Holton will get you. You "ladies" and your "girls" do realize that China is kicking our asses in STEM, right?"

Totally off topic, bue who cares if other nations also develop great STEM? It improves the lives of all. I'm tired of drummed up nationalist "fights." World Peace!

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone with children younger than 10 has not fully been exposed to this wide ranging trend. It is ripping through our pre-adolescent and adolescent girls at an incredibly high rate. It is now cool to be bisexual, transgender, and queer. Apparently lesbian and gay are out of fashion. I mean, they get to fly a rainbow flag. How cool is that? I asked my “daughter” what flag do I get to fly and she said the straight flag was black and white. That’s what I get?

I figure if she can get someone else to call her by a different name and use different pronouns, that’s on her. We are just ignoring it at home. This is a child with zero gender issues from birth to age 15.

Still, I wonder what will happen in these girls schools. They will not be insulated from it. As I mentioned above, I hope the schools take a hard stand and mostly ignore it. There’s no way I can remember the preferred pronouns in my daughters circle of (girl)friends. Let alone being a teacher with 100+ kids to remember. If you look like a girl, I will use female pronouns. If you look like a boy, I will use male pronouns. And if we decide as a society we want to update our language then that’s going to take a few years. Pronouns are not offensive by their nature.

Really hoping this far dies out before too many years pass

+1000

While Rome burns, this is what your $45K tuition a year at Holton will get you. You "ladies" and your "girls" do realize that China is kicking our asses in STEM, right?"

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Anonymous wrote:I see a number of people on this thread confident that the changes being proposed by the students would never be implemented. I wish I were as confident. It is women and others not speaking up for logic and rationality in this space that has led us to where we are today.

I assume that everyone has seen the news about the recent U Penn student who competed with the mens swim team for several years, "transitioned", and is now competing against women and blowing them out of the literal water? So sad for young women who have trained their entire lives and now being handily beaten by a student with a male body. No one is standing up for these women - it is an abomination.

You know who should be standing up for these girls, and all girls everywhere caught up in institutions promoting this madness? Their mothers.

TRYING!!!

Trying here too. Will actively and passively encourage my daughter to stay away from these cuckoo kids and similar cuckoo parents engaging in gender fluidity. It is truly the worst trend.

Anonymous wrote:Why not call them students instead of girls. And seriously does your handbook really say “girls”, our handbook always said young ladies.

It’s just weird you are stuck on the word girl.

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Anonymous wrote:Well now we have LD and mentally disordered people taking a page from the LGBTQ activist manual so get ready for that wave of privilege and attention and quotas.
It’s just “thinking differently” so accommodate and comply.

This is offensive, ignorant and unnecessary.

Students with learning differences have been learning to quietly advocate for their needs for many years well before this gender fluidity phenom. Teachers who are trained to engage different kinds of learners actually fare better with neuro typical students since the teaching empowers all students (understanding how they learn best, engaging as many senses as possible to learn material, and managing time and materials in most effective ways.

Also many students with learning differences have very high IQs and it is better for society to be able to utilize their many gifts (such as lateral thinking, big picture thinking, creative problem solving) rather than to stigmatize them and squander their gifts.

Anonymous wrote:Well now we have LD and mentally disordered people taking a page from the LGBTQ activist manual so get ready for that wave of privilege and attention and quotas.
It’s just “thinking differently” so accommodate and comply.

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Anonymous wrote:If you are applying to Holton, take a serious look. Susanna Jones is leaving but not until 2023. It should be interesting who ends up with her job. They are afraid of the big bad wolf. You would not believe. Just peruse the instagram accounts of some of the students.

You're encouraging adults to browse the ig of teens?

YES! Don't you check your kid's IG?!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you are applying to Holton, take a serious look. Susanna Jones is leaving but not until 2023. It should be interesting who ends up with her job. They are afraid of the big bad wolf. You would not believe. Just peruse the instagram accounts of some of the students.

You're encouraging adults to browse the ig of teens?