A private school in Manhattan is encouraging students to stop using the words “mom,” “dad,” and “parents” and instead use more “inclusive language.”
“Families are formed and structured in many ways. At Grace Church School, we use inclusive language that reflects this diversity. It’s important to refrain from making assumptions about who kids live with, who cares for them, whether they sleep in the same place every night, whether they see their parents, etc.,” the guide from Grace Church School in NoHo says.
The Episcopal school recently sent a 12-page guide to students and staff recommending using the terms “grown-ups,” “folks,” “family,” or “guardians,” instead of terms “mom,” “dad,” and “parents.”
The guide also has recommendations concerning sexual orientation, gender, and race and how to ask questions in a more inclusive fashion.
Instead of saying, “What are you? Where are you from?” people should say, “What is your cultural/ethnic background? Where are your ancestors/is your family from?” according to the guide.
When reading a book, instead of saying, “the boy/girl on this page …” one should say, “child, person, character.”
The guidance comes as parents across the county have voiced outrage with what they perceive as schools promoting liberal policies. Journalist Megyn Kelly recently announced she pulled her children out of their New York City school after it promoted the “reform” of white children’s racial biases.
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“We pulled our boys from their school, and our daughter is going to be leaving hers soon, too,” Kelly said in November. “The schools have always been far Left, which doesn’t align with my own ideology, but I didn’t really care. Most of my friends are liberals. It’s fine. I come from Democrats as a family.”
“I’m not offended at all by the ideology, and I lean center-left on some things. But they’ve gone around the bend. I mean, they have gone off the deep end,” Kelly continued. “This summer, in the wake of George Floyd, they circulated amongst the diversity group — which includes white parents like us, there are people who want to be allies and stay attuned to what we can do — an article, and afterward, they recirculated it and wanted every member of the faculty to read it.”
