Posted on 02/01/2022 6:03:42 PM PST by ConservativeStatement
It’s a Dutch re-treat.
Manhattan’s elite Collegiate School set up a special task force and spent three years debating its “Dutchman’’ mascot and motto — then issued a 400-page report that’s a lesson in wokeness-run-amok, critics say.
The Herculean effort at PC reform led the $60,000-a-year Upper West Side school to not only drastically alter its playful, winking mascot image — but also toss “God” from its motto and even “A.D.” from its seal, deeming both potentially offensive.
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They didn’t spend this much effort to improve education.
They didn’t spend this much effort to lower costs or accelerate the learning process so more students could take part.
They didn’t spend this much effort on even the curriculum to insure that the students were actually of quality.
No... they spent this much effort to come up with new guidelines on how the school appears to be consistent with the schools restated “pillars” of guidance.
It’s utter, nonsensical, gobbledygook where you have people who have NO clue as to what they’re doing dictating nonsensical policy that will serve NO one but themselves.
Do you think ANY of these morons could actually START a school that would last for 1 year, let alone 300?!
NO.
Once again, leftists can only commandeer an institution and gut it and wear its skin - they can’t build anything on their own.
“At $60K a year they should be running from that school.”
The $60K is just the minimum entry fee. You can add another $10-20K per school year.
They killed a lot of trees to print this crap.
Yes. That’s what the school’s outgoing motto definitively referenced.
I as well, though modified to take into account their apparent rejection of the Lord in favor of the Wokesters’ Marxist comprehension of race and everything.
Keep in mind that with the Woke they want to blind the watchmen too … as guarding the city is discriminatory … just ask the nitwits and they’ll say it’s so.
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