{"id":1737109,"date":"2022-11-13T06:30:20","date_gmt":"2022-11-13T11:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1737109"},"modified":"2022-11-13T11:04:02","modified_gmt":"2022-11-13T16:04:02","slug":"mary-miller-time-to-take-a-closer-look-at-k-12-private-school-classrooms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mary-miller-time-to-take-a-closer-look-at-k-12-private-school-classrooms\/","title":{"rendered":"Mary Miller: Time to Take a Closer Look at K-12 Private School Classrooms"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmary-miller-time-to-take-a-closer-look-at-k-12-private-school-classrooms%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1737109&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/8c4c0fb4-8f8c-420d-a392-ec11c2134ef1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>After this week\u2019s elections, some parents will have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/school-choice-rising\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/school-choice-rising\" rel=\"noopener\">more school choice options<\/a> while others will have more worries about the direction their public schools are headed. But regardless of where you live, more families than ever before will be looking for quality private schools for their children.<\/p>\n<p>Private schools that teach the best of the Western Canon and train students in the proven skills of the seven traditional liberal arts\u2013secular and <a href=\"https:\/\/chestertonschoolsnetwork.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/chestertonschoolsnetwork.org\/\" rel=\"noopener\">religious<\/a>\u2013exist throughout the country. This education that parents crave for their children has become rare since 2020, when many deep-pocketed private schools fell victim to a Black-Lives-Matter narrative pushed by activists and ideologues bent on turning private schools into personal jobs programs &#8211; and dismantling academic standards and quality curriculum along the way. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Private school changes during 2020<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While some private schools, especially many of the most elite schools, have always been progressive, most took a sharp left turn in earnest in 2020, in response to the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests and riots over George Floyd\u2019s death. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The progressive slide at schools around the country in the weeks following Floyd\u2019s death was shockingly similar. Activists and alums <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/06\/16\/style\/blm-accounts-social-media-high-school.html\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/06\/16\/style\/blm-accounts-social-media-high-school.html\" rel=\"noopener\">told schools<\/a> that the apology letters schools posted for their part in \u201csystemic racism\u201d were not enough. School leaders hired diversity consultants as cover. Consultants used research from left-leaning college of education professors filtered through school associations such as the National Association of Independent Schools, to claim schools needed to institute sweeping changes to become more \u201cdiverse, equitable, and inclusive\u201d and race-centered with a focus on race-based admissions, hiring, training, curriculum, and policies.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Many private schools, caught up in the racial reckoning mania of the summer of 2020, adopted these recommendations. Then they spent big bucks on new staff and education service providers and prioritized implementing these changes. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Private schools double down in 2022<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Once parents began to see \u201cdiversity, equity, and inclusion\u201d in action they began asking questions. Is taking race into account in hiring and admissions fair? Does it ensure that the brightest candidates are in place? Does requiring training in pseudo-subjects such as \u201cwhite supremacy\u201d and \u201cpower and privilege\u201d and implementing \u201caffinity groups,\u201d \u201cbias response teams,\u201d and speech codes help inter-race relations or academic performance? Is telling some kids they\u2019re oppressors and others that they\u2019re oppressed healthy? Does removing classic texts from the curriculum help student achievement? Is the classwork added in place of the classics\u2013sexualized and social justice topics \u2013education or indoctrination?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Most schools that made changes in 2020 know that their embrace of \u201cdiversity, equity, and inclusion\u201d has compromised their academic mission. Many schools now are watering down their academic standards under the guise of student \u201cwellness,\u201d a broad term that is used to attack academic rigor in the name of student \u201cwell-being.\u201d Examples include social and emotional learning (SEL), block schedules with fewer classes, no homework policies, \u201cEquity grading\u201d and modified graduation requirements.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When parents raised concerns, the schools doubled down. Schools told parents \u201cmaybe this isn\u2019t the right school for your child anymore.\u201d Schools <a href=\"https:\/\/robsparents.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/ROBS-2022-23-Re-Enrollment-Contract-Redlined.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/robsparents.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/ROBS-2022-23-Re-Enrollment-Contract-Redlined.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\">changed student enrollment contract language<\/a> to clarify that parental complaints could be cause for a student\u2019s dismissal from the school. Some schools <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/10\/22\/elite-nyc-prep-schools-aim-woke-indoctrination-at-parents-too\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/10\/22\/elite-nyc-prep-schools-aim-woke-indoctrination-at-parents-too\/\" rel=\"noopener\">now require new parents<\/a> to sign pledges and write statements in support of schools\u2019 \u201cdiversity, equity, and inclusion\u201d missions and agree to attend parental \u201ctraining\u201d sessions on the topic.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>How to save schools and students<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Private school parents saw that in 2020 schools were immediately responsive to activists\u2019 complaints lodged on social media. Now, some private school parents are taking a page out of that playbook, creating websites to share their concerns and document the recent changes to their schools.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As legislators give parents increasing education freedom, it\u2019s more important than ever that parents have quality private school options for their children. The good news is that most of the \u201cdiversity, equity, and inclusion\u201d damage done in private K-12 schools is very recent and can be reversed once private school stakeholders\u2013parents, trustees, donors, religious leaders\u2013take a closer look at what\u2019s going on in the classroom.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>Mary Miller is Private School Advocacy Associate for Parents Defending Education \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After this week\u2019s elections, some parents will have more school choice options while others will have more worries about the direction their public schools are headed. 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