Posted on 12/20/2020 4:19:25 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
One of NYC’s poshest private schools is in an uproar over an anti-racist manifesto signed by dozens of faculty members with a sweeping list of demands.
The Dalton School - which boasts stars Anderson Cooper, Christian Slater and Claire Danes as alumni - is wrestling with eight pages of “proposals” to overhaul the staffing, curriculum and treatment of black students.
Yearly tuition for grades K-12 at the Upper East Side institution is $54,180 a year.
The wide-ranging faculty demands include:
-Hiring 12 full-time diversity officers, and multiple psychologists to support students “coping with race-based traumatic stress.”
-Assigning a staffer dedicated to black students who have “complaints or face disciplinary action,” and a full-time advocate to help black kids “navigate a predominantly white institution.”
-Paying the student debt of black staffers upon hiring them.
-Requiring courses that focus on “Black liberation” and “challenges to white supremacy.”
-Compensating any student of color who appears in Dalton promotional material.
-Abolishing high-level academic courses by 2023 if the performance of black students is not on par with non-blacks.
-Requiring “anti-racism” statements from all staffers.
-Overhauling the entire curriculum, reading lists and student plays to reflect diversity and social justice themes.
-Divesting from companies that “criminalize or dehumanize” black people, including private prisons and tech firms that manufacture police equipment or weapons.
-Donating 50 percent of all fundraising dollars to NYC public schools if Dalton is not representative of the city in terms of gender, race, socioeconomic background, and immigration status by 2025.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
I can think of one way for those kids’ parents to save $54,180 per year...
“... signed by dozens of faculty members with a sweeping list of demands.”
Parents are going to vote with their feet and pocketbooks. Good luck finding new jobs when the school has to downsize its faculty, “dozens of faculty members.” Demand all you like as students and their parents’ checks head right out the door to greener pastures.
Parasites will endlessly milk empty cries of racism until people push back. It’s disgusting if hasn’t happened already.
“-Abolishing high-level academic courses by 2023 if the performance of black students is not on par with non-blacks.”
How about just f@#$ing teaching effectively. You know? Explaining difficult stuff, helping kids who still don’t get it? i.e., earn your G-@#$@mned paycheck!
Know your enemy as yourself and you will be victorious in 100 out of 100 battles.
Paraphrased from Sun Tsu.
JoMa
$54,180 a year. ?
Yeah baby, ya know its worth every penny.
And I am 6’3”, tall dark and handsome with a full head of hair.
Uh huh, yeah sure.
I have known some of the type of parent who actually sends their kids to these type of schools in NYC. Think Ivanka and Jared Trump. They are not fooling around. They want the best education for their children, not this ridiculous sjw crap. They may appear to be very liberal, but not when it comes to their children’s education. This school is in for a rude awakening.
I agree completely.
Can you imagine how long it took to sit down and think of and write all this stuff?
This is the second stupidest thing I’ve read this morning already. And it’s not even 8 AM.
The good thing is this is happening to the posh life styles of the rich and famous liberal progressive pukes and thier families, they brought us here. The education system in general is suffering from systemic rot. When crap like this enters in educating the children stops and the only education they are getting is who to blame who to hate and how to get back at them.
Isn’t it wonderful!/sarc
“I can think of one way for those kids’ parents to save $54,180 per year...”
You racist! How dare you. Anyone who doesn’t send his kids to Dalton and pony up the big bucks is a sheet-wearing Klansman who cares nothing for the poor./s
I wouldn’t consider any kid at that school as a minority if his parents can afford to send him there........
As someone else has said, it’s easy to play the race card when you’re not playing with a full deck.
I read about this yesterday, not believing this actually happened.
Sounds like it is run directly out of Herr Wilhelm’s office.
I’m 6’0” and still have a full head of hair.
*shameless grin*
70 years of trying EVERYTHING to close “the gap”, the holy grail of US education, has found nothing that works, other than marginally, as far as legit attempts go, no matter the funding, and no matter the methods used.
One could intensely recruit the very few unicorns among the black kids out there, but everyone else is doing that and there are way too few to go around. Or maybe import some selected Nigerian Ibos on scholarship. But that is cheating.
It is an impossible demand of course.
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