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by thehoff·2y ago·view on hn ↗
Parent of a 10 year old in public school. I can't think of any race related subjects that they do at school. Sure they may cover a race/culture during a specific month (eg. February they learned about the underground railroad this year, they did a week on the Chinese New Year). He has a number of friends that go to private schools and its not too different amongst that peer group.

Sure there are differences overall. In talking with other parents, for instance, the privates around us have classes on ways to study methods (notetaking, how to approach tests, things like that). Our public school does not do this (nor does any of the public middle schools we looked at). The privates around us also seem to give a lot more homework (even during the summer break).

Our math programs seem average for what they are learning. We have been going to additional math tutoring outside to get our son ahead but it wasn't because of the program at his school (we started in Kindergarten).

There is a also lot of info around bullying and so on. I just figured this was all schools. This one I don't know about at the other schools around us.

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This is in MA, there's a significant race related stuff here. He had some class on ballet, the entire thing was about the girl who was the first black ballet dancer accepted into some prestigious academy. There was pretty much nothing about the dance itself at all.
As somebody who doesn't live in the US and only has the (likely very distorted) view of US schools we get from your series/movies, I would say doing things against bullying is a good thing. I always find revolting to watch how "normalized" seems to be the school bully form the football team. But again: this is what Hollywood is projecting... I hope to be very wrong on it.