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

[C19fan]

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.

Parents, faculty, staff and alums of Brentwood School began clashing over the curriculum after the school participated in #BlackoutTuesday, a social media campaign to stand against racism, just days after George Floyd died under the knee of a white Minneapolis cop last year.

According to the Los Angeles Magazine, under a #BlackoutTuesday post that featured a black box, some alums criticized the school as being a 'toxic racist cesspool for students of color, but an ivory tower for the wealthy, white elite'.

[rmlew]

To Kill a Mockingbird may have originally been an anti-racist book that taught children to stand up to racist mobs, to view people based on their character and not prejudice, and that everyone is entitled to justice and being presumed innocent until proven guilty based on evidence. But those are all considered White Supremacist in this stage of the cultural revolution.

Lord of the Flies is a pacifist book, which teaches children to stand up to mobs, to work together, appreciate differences, and seek peaceful solutions. This is all White Supremacy according to the Left today. We are in a cultural revolution

[Boogieman]

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

Oh, it’s not that. It’s just that the left is running the witch hunts now, so the narrative has become “problematic” for them.