Poly Prep school in NYC questions kids on race, gender in woke survey

Poly Prep Nation Day Faculty in Brooklyn gave college students a "variety and inclusion" that requested them about their sexual orientation and political opinions.
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Brooklyn’s prestigious Poly Prep Nation Day Faculty pried into its college students lives with a “variety and inclusion” questionnaire, posing invasive queries on their sexual orientation, political opinions and satisfaction of their race.

The 62-page “DEIB Local weather Survey” — which went to college students in grades 5 to 12 — additionally requested children about their dad and mom’ incomes, and whether or not they had made monetary donations to the Dyker Heights college, the place tuition is as a lot as $57,000 a 12 months.

The survey was created by Omari Keeles, Poly Prep’s director of variety, fairness, and inclusion.

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DEIB stands for variety, fairness, inclusion and belonging and college students have been additionally requested whether or not they felt comfortable about being members of their social class, felt good about folks from their racial and ethnic background and whether or not sure racial or ethnic teams have fewer probabilities to get forward.

The Virginia-based advocacy group Mother and father Defending Schooling, which posted the survey on-line, stated it had obtained complaints about it from indignant Poly Prep dad and mom.

“Poly Prep dad and mom had expressed outrage to high school directors over the survey,” the group stated on its web site. “Mother and father reported their discomfort with their youngsters being anticipated to disclose private info that they could not have, could not perceive, and will not wish to share.”

The group additionally contended that “considerations centered round privateness, age-inappropriateness, and whether or not college students are unwittingly getting used as ‘guinea pigs’ for a researcher’s tutorial inquiry initiatives.”

The survey was crafted by Omari W. Keeles, Poly Prep’s director of variety, fairness, and inclusion, who collaborated with researchers at Columbia College and the College of Michigan.

“We did this survey as a result of we're at all times working to enhance our tradition of inclusion and belonging, and evaluation is a part of that course of,” stated Jennifer Slomack, a Poly Prep spokesman.

She stated the survey outcomes have been nameless and that college students have been requested to offer their e mail addresses solely to entry the questionnaire.

The survey requested the scholars to offer their gender description.

After the parental outcry, Poly Prep headmaster Audrius Barzdukas claimed in a Could be aware to folks that a number of points “made the information unreliable.”

“These points included remaining edits not being included within the model that was administered and vital variability in how the survey was facilitated,” he stated.

He stated the outcomes had been deleted and apologized for any “confusion and discomfort this survey induced.”

One other query requested college students about how they really feel about their very own race.

Barzdukas final fall riled up households when he canceled up households when he canceled the college’s effectively favored soccer coach, claiming this system resulted in a “poisonous tradition.” He fired veteran coach Kevin Fountaine, simply as an October apply session began, surprising college students and workers.

The varsity, which additionally has a campus in Park Slope, counts former Dolphins coach Brian Flores and ex-Knick Joakim Noah amongst its grads. Jon Bon Jovi’s son Jesse Bongiovi performed soccer and lacrosse there.