Parents anger as $45,000-a-year Brentwood School scraps Lord of the Flies and To Kill a Mockingbird for new anti-racism curriculum

UK Daily Mail ^ | April 19, 2021 | Staff

[OttawaFreeper]

I wonder if the alums who complained about it being a cesspool really had that kind of a hard life by going to a $45000 a year school. Must have been straight out of “The Blackboard Jungle” or “Up the Down Staircase” or “Stand and Deliver”.

[mewzilla]

45 grand?!

Fools and their money are soon parted.

[Cecily]

Parents don’t need to pay $45K a year or any amount to have their children dumbed down, badly educated and politically indoctrinated by the libbies. They can get all that for free at a public school.

[Bayard]

Plenty of better private schools in LA I suspect, if you can afford 45k

[Bayard]

45k is for the privilege and social club. Liberals want to be privileged without being privileged.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

“...classic modern American literature like To Kill a Mockingbird and the Lord of the Flies.”

William Golding was British.

[SunkenCiv]

...some alums criticized the school as being a 'toxic racist cesspool for students of color, but an ivory tower for the wealthy, white elite'.

Clearly that's a racist statement.

[Bartholomew Roberts]

Probably 30-40% of that $45,000 goes to ‘scholarships’ for affirmative action kids.

That is a common range for private schools.

[a fool in paradise]

Wasn’t To Kill a Mockingbird part of the old anti-racism curriculum?

[Fiji Hill]

...classic modern American literature like To Kill a Mockingbird and the Lord of the Flies.

Lord of the Flies is not American and neither of these books is a classic.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

Maybe; it certainly is anti-racist. Back when I was in school, though, everything wasn’t all racism all the time.

[1Old Pro]

Back when I was in school, though, everything wasn’t all racism all the time.

It is now.

[Fiji Hill]

Wasn’t To Kill a Mockingbird part of the old anti-racism curriculum?

Yes, it was a fixture in the liberal literary canon prior to the age of wokeness. Incidentally, I read it for the first time about five years ago.

It's also surprising to see The Crucible being purged from the liberal literary canon. It must not be woke enough.

[petitfour]

Democrats in Mississippi banned it back in the day.

[a fool in paradise]

>>It’s also surprising to see The Crucible being purged from the liberal literary canon. It must not be woke enough.

The Left is okay with witchhunting and guilt by association and false witness. They don’t like the prosecution and blacklisting of Communists.

[LouAvul]

neither of these books is a classic.

The people who make such distinctions are ignorant, anyway. Like, the people at Amazon who include "Hatfields & McCoys" and "Australia" (with Nicole Kidman) in their "Western" genre.

[heartwood]

Nevertheless, both books were scrapped from the school's curriculum for their use of the N-word. A parent with the Black Family Association developed a Powerpoint presentation that included slides that read their children would think 'I must be inferior to other people because I was a slave once,' and that the N-word 'must be OK to use' if they read the books.

So these Black Family Association parents must be very strictly policing their children's phone and internet use, music and friends.

[Vaduz]

Anti-racism has nothing to do with it the same old utopia socialism propaganda must hide history to rewrite it.

[DoodleDawg]

A $45,000-a-year school in Los Angeles is locked in a struggle with parents as administrators push for a more progressive curriculum that excludes classic modern American literature like To Kill a Mockingbird and the Lord of the Flies.

Uh, William Golding was British.