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Anonymous wrote:I consider myself a Democrat. I have no idea what anti-woke means, but here is my problem with politics today. Anyone who does not agree with a democratic policy gets shot down as immoral. For example if you disagree with the party line, it must be because you are evil, selfish, or stupid. If there is some proposed policy intended to help people, but there might be unintended consequences that actually hurt people, nobody wants to hear about it. This is a dangerous trend for society. Almost as dangerous or perhaps equally dangerous as what is going on within the Republican Party. I do not want my kids to be taught politics as though it were religion. I would love to find a moderate environment where critical thinking and questioning is encouraged on all sides.

Sorry, no, it's not "equally dangerous". Democrats are not historically this lockstep (does anyone remember any political history before 2016? Joe Lieberman and Blue Dog democrats anyone? Sheesh). IMO dems have circled the wagons in recent years as a unified defense against Trump/Trumpism/anti-democratic right. And it has been reasonably effective as a defense of our shared, lower-case-d democratic principles. That is the clear and present danger to our country, as evidenced by Jan 6. Not intolerance to nuanced/more moderate views of specific dem party policies.

Anyone who doesn’t believe a party of the people can be dangerous needs to read about socialist uprisings and dictatorships in other countries. My family actually escaped from one. Some of my family members were executed for holding incorrect political and moral opinions. US Democrats are not as bad as the Republicans yet, as the Jan 6 nuts demonstrate, but I can definitely see the potential for disaster if polarization continues to the extreme.

I'm the PP. Any party "can be" dangerous. Where did I say anywhere above that a party is not capable of being dangerous? It's an order of magnitude and anybody that equates what is happening right now with the Democratic Party and what's happening with the Republican Party in this country is...I don't know what. Trying to be contrarian? Because you can't be serious. Please identify an elected Democratic politician, or even a Democratic party nominee in a major state or national race, that is so intolerant of moderate Democrats as to be "dangerous". Now try the same thing with the Republican Party. Do you see the difference?

I am the PP you are responding to, and yes I agree I went too far to suggest the equivalency at this current time. But I am very nervous given the climate and heated debates I’ve seen that have turned ugly when they had no business turning ugly. It’s not a particular politician at the moment that I consider dangerous. It’s the trend towards moralistic thinking and away from reasoned debates. I work in academia, and I’ve definitely seen people ostracized unfairly for disagreeing respectfully with the majority at work.

Anonymous wrote:You would have liked my private school back in the early 90's, OP. I remember an assembly when we had a pro-choice woman and a pro-life woman debate each other. Every faculty member whose opinion I knew and most (but not all) of the students were pro-choice. As a pro-life student, I really appreciated that the subject was seen as being worthy of debate. I think that it would be really difficult to find both sides of this issue being presented respectfully at a school today. The school was totally nonreligious, but at Commencement (graduation) every year, we did have a short blessing said by a clergyperson. The school alternated between a Catholic priest, Protestant pastor, and rabbi, to respect the major religions represented at the school. I feel like those were the good ol' days.

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Anonymous wrote:I consider myself a Democrat. I have no idea what anti-woke means, but here is my problem with politics today. Anyone who does not agree with a democratic policy gets shot down as immoral. For example if you disagree with the party line, it must be because you are evil, selfish, or stupid. If there is some proposed policy intended to help people, but there might be unintended consequences that actually hurt people, nobody wants to hear about it. This is a dangerous trend for society. Almost as dangerous or perhaps equally dangerous as what is going on within the Republican Party. I do not want my kids to be taught politics as though it were religion. I would love to find a moderate environment where critical thinking and questioning is encouraged on all sides.

Sorry, no, it's not "equally dangerous". Democrats are not historically this lockstep (does anyone remember any political history before 2016? Joe Lieberman and Blue Dog democrats anyone? Sheesh). IMO dems have circled the wagons in recent years as a unified defense against Trump/Trumpism/anti-democratic right. And it has been reasonably effective as a defense of our shared, lower-case-d democratic principles. That is the clear and present danger to our country, as evidenced by Jan 6. Not intolerance to nuanced/more moderate views of specific dem party policies.

Anyone who doesn’t believe a party of the people can be dangerous needs to read about socialist uprisings and dictatorships in other countries. My family actually escaped from one. Some of my family members were executed for holding incorrect political and moral opinions. US Democrats are not as bad as the Republicans yet, as the Jan 6 nuts demonstrate, but I can definitely see the potential for disaster if polarization continues to the extreme.

I'm the PP. Any party "can be" dangerous. Where did I say anywhere above that a party is not capable of being dangerous? It's an order of magnitude and anybody that equates what is happening right now with the Democratic Party and what's happening with the Republican Party in this country is...I don't know what. Trying to be contrarian? Because you can't be serious. Please identify an elected Democratic politician, or even a Democratic party nominee in a major state or national race, that is so intolerant of moderate Democrats as to be "dangerous". Now try the same thing with the Republican Party. Do you see the difference?

PP again. I recognize the above debate is not on-topic, so to actually respond to OP's question, assuming it's coming from a good faith desire to find a school whose curriculum doesn't bend to the slightest breeze: another recommendation for an Episcopal or Catholic school.

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Anonymous wrote:I consider myself a Democrat. I have no idea what anti-woke means, but here is my problem with politics today. Anyone who does not agree with a democratic policy gets shot down as immoral. For example if you disagree with the party line, it must be because you are evil, selfish, or stupid. If there is some proposed policy intended to help people, but there might be unintended consequences that actually hurt people, nobody wants to hear about it. This is a dangerous trend for society. Almost as dangerous or perhaps equally dangerous as what is going on within the Republican Party. I do not want my kids to be taught politics as though it were religion. I would love to find a moderate environment where critical thinking and questioning is encouraged on all sides.

Sorry, no, it's not "equally dangerous". Democrats are not historically this lockstep (does anyone remember any political history before 2016? Joe Lieberman and Blue Dog democrats anyone? Sheesh). IMO dems have circled the wagons in recent years as a unified defense against Trump/Trumpism/anti-democratic right. And it has been reasonably effective as a defense of our shared, lower-case-d democratic principles. That is the clear and present danger to our country, as evidenced by Jan 6. Not intolerance to nuanced/more moderate views of specific dem party policies.

Anyone who doesn’t believe a party of the people can be dangerous needs to read about socialist uprisings and dictatorships in other countries. My family actually escaped from one. Some of my family members were executed for holding incorrect political and moral opinions. US Democrats are not as bad as the Republicans yet, as the Jan 6 nuts demonstrate, but I can definitely see the potential for disaster if polarization continues to the extreme.

I'm the PP. Any party "can be" dangerous. Where did I say anywhere above that a party is not capable of being dangerous? It's an order of magnitude and anybody that equates what is happening right now with the Democratic Party and what's happening with the Republican Party in this country is...I don't know what. Trying to be contrarian? Because you can't be serious. Please identify an elected Democratic politician, or even a Democratic party nominee in a major state or national race, that is so intolerant of moderate Democrats as to be "dangerous". Now try the same thing with the Republican Party. Do you see the difference?

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Anonymous wrote:WIS! Some of the people in the WIS community who are most confused by the concepts of being woke are black foreign nationals from places like France, Ghana, Morocco and Nigeria. Thus, there is highly legitimate, non-racist questioning around woke-ness amongst the parents. Where it comes to the students, the teachers and administrators follow the IB to a T.

There probably is highly legitimate, non-racist questioning about what people like you call “woke-ness”.

So let’s pause for a moment and think seriously about why you had to reach to “black (sic) foreign nationals” to believe that you could find it.

Note: At least some of those people surely realize that without the efforts of the “woke” their children would not legally be able to attend WIS, since prior to the 1970’s schools were racially segregated.

There are 7 billion people on this planet. 300m live in America. That means there are over 6 billion who have no clue what you’re talking about. Some of them move here with a focus on bringing energy or health care to people living in horrific poverty. Truly horrific. They have a desire to see their kids grow up with a world perspective, perspectives that you may be ignorant about. Ignorance is why we have education, and we can want to be educated about different parts of humanity and all be good people.

I got lost counting the weird, vague generalities in your answer. So let's take a look.

1. US media and culture are transmitted by satellite and Internet to every country on the planet. Only a minority are ignorant of US history and society, not 6 billion. Look at movie ticket sales worldwide.

2. Only a tiny minority who come here are involved in aid projects for their home countries. The vast majority in DC and around the US are parents who immigrated for economic opportunity and educational opportunities here. Survey any set of private school parents here.

3. What is "a world perspective" since there are 200 countries and even more languages and cultures in the world, each with its own history and perspective? Anyone who has been to more than a handful of countries knows that.

4. Education about different parts of humanity to be a good person is the foundation of understanding that the world is both a diverse and often unfair place, even moreso in the past than now. That's the ignorance that modern education aims to lift.

So whatever point you were trying to make got VERY lost along the way.