Posted on 04/17/2021 12:06:24 PM PDT by Labyrinthos
As the headmaster of the famed Dalton School resigned over controversial race-based curriculum and policies, another storied Manhattan prep school faced a father’s public wrath over the same issue.
Dalton School’s Jim Best announced he was leaving Friday to pursue “other exciting and inspiring opportunities” after 16 years at the school. His departure came after months of controversy at the Upper East Side academic bastion over the school’s “anti-racism” focus.
At the same time, a father at the equally prestigious, $54,000-a-year Brearley School sent a scathing, nearly 1700-word letter to the institution’s roughly 600 families over Brearley’s “obsession with race.”
The letter by Andrew Gutmann, first published in Bari Weiss’ Substack, explained why he was pulling his daughter out of the Upper East Side school after seven years. She started there in kindergarten.
“It should be abundantly clear to any thinking parent that Brearley has completely lost its way,” Gutmann wrote. “The administration and the Board of Trustees have displayed a cowardly and appalling lack of leadership by appeasing an anti-intellectual, illiberal mob.”
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It is a must read.
I read it. Hits the spot. So how many ‘impressionables’ have the attention span to read and take it in?
copy and paste the link. Interesting letter, but school will ignore him.
I read it. It can be made into a form letter, simply by replacing "Brearley School" with most any school's name in America.
There is no link for the article.
You are absolutely right. It is all the same issue.
Liberals love racism as long as it’s directed at whites.
Me bad: https://nypost.com/2021/04/17/dalton-headmaster-quits-while-brearley-dad-writes-scathing-letter/
Awesome letter. I wonder where he will send his daughter. Probably move out of the city. When I lived in Manhattan many years agi, my best friend was a Brearly girl. I wonder what she would think. Then again she was a Democrat.
Thank you.
If these people really believe the crap they’re espousing, why aren’t they turning over their positions to a black academic?
Hear! Hear! Read the letter then pass it on to friends and your elected....this is the TIDE we’ve been waiting for....help We The People out...Do Something.
Because maybe a black academic will push back on this nonsense. They don’t all think the same you know
That wasn’t my point. Why do you never hear from these folks that because of systemic racism, they’re vacating the position so the board of directors can put a person of color, someone who is gay etc. in that position.
Claiming to be "frightened" is just a way of saying, "I'm a good person, and you're not." If we don't stop coddling people claiming irrational fear, our society is toast and deserves it.
And until you name names, it's worthless. Not worth pissing in a bucket of spit unless you name the bucket owner and who is doing the spitting.
Contrast this with Loudoun County and the conservatives in Virginia naming names and getting results from their pushback...
That was amazing. Shared it everywhere. Thank you.
“Do Something”
Agreed. I have to say this man is brave, it seems silly to have to say that but it’s true.
I can’t believe all these rich white people are putting up with this stuff. And the rich black people too!
Are black parents spending their hard-earned money to send their kids to a school that says: that’s ok little black child, we know you can’t add 2 and 2 and get 4, and for that I, your teacher, as a white anti-racist, apologize. I can’t believe that.
But believe me, there’s an opportunity knocking here for some right thinking people to start some schools. I mean it is pounding on the door.
That’s racist.
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