Posted on 03/09/2021 3:56:16 PM PST by Rummyfan
When I began working on this story, I didn’t feel that much sympathy for these parents. Some 18 million public school children have not set foot in a school in the past year. A study released in early December by McKinsey and Co. found that virtual learning hurt all students, but students of color the most: remote school set them back by three to five months in math, for example. Such numbers do not begin to capture the crippling effects, including suicidal ideation, that this past year has had on what experts are already calling a lost generation.
The parents in this story are not parents with no other options. Most have the capital—social and literal—to pull their kids out and hire private tutors. That they weren’t speaking out seemed to me cowardly, or worse.
The cynical answer for their silence is two words: Ivy League. “There are definitively rumors that the school has like, say, three picks for Duke and that if you stand up against this your kid will get blackballed,” says one mother.
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I think it’s true that many people would rather violate their stated principles than be iced out of their social network. But this is a situation that goes beyond getting shunted to a bad table at the Robin Hood gala. To resist this ideology is to go against the entire institutional world.
It’s not just Dalton, a school that has committed to being “visibly, vocally and structurally antiracist.” Bain & Company is tweeting about “Womxn’s History Month.” The Cartoon Network is imploring children to “see color.” Coca-Cola employees were recently instructed to “be less white.” You cannot buy or sell the newly problematic Dr. Seuss titles on eBay. This ideology isn’t speaking truth to power. It is the power.
(Excerpt) Read more at city-journal.org ...
“I don’t mean to get emotional, I just feel helpless,” said one mother through tears. “I look at the public school and I am equally mortified. I can’t believe what they are doing to everybody. I’m too afraid. I’m too afraid to speak too loudly. I feel cowardly. I just make little waves.” Another tells me: “It’s fear of retribution. Would it cause our daughter to be ostracized? Would it cause people to ostracize us? It already has.”
Public education has been totally detroyed. Now apparently private education is a joke too. I am really worried for the future. Where are the doctors, lawyers, engineers, scientists going to come from? Not from this country ... because there is no true education anymore.
“The future leaders in American government and industry are being home-schooled right now.”
Bari Weiss's NYT resignation letter:
I wish I had an answer for you, but I don't.
What’s an “elite”.
Perhaps...just perhaps, perhaps membership in the ruling class isn’t worth the degradation.
This is a recipe to turn bright inquisitive young people into quivering messes. Genocide will be easy
This ideology is speaking power to truth.
The reality is that the parents are limited and shortsighted. They can have bright entrepreneurial independent thinking children by hiring good tutors and homeschooling. These kids will not want to be in the limited and closed elite schools where no one will want their graduates. They will change the definition of successful
“... but students of color the most: remote school set them back by three to five months in math, for example.”
How can they tell? In Prince Georges County, MD, the average black high school graduate does math at the 7th to 8th grade level. Three to five months vs three to five years as it is.
An elite is the C.E.O. of your company who is pushing woke culture on his workers who are just struggling to get by.
Math is racist.
And worse than that in Baltimordor. Did you see the recent story about that school system?
Baltimore HS Student Who Passed Only Three Courses in Four Years Ranks in Top Half of His Class
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3939588/posts
And winning!
Yes I saw that story. The kid has a 0.13 GPA (or thereabouts) and he was still in the top half of his class.
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