Dalton parents fight ‘anti-racism’ agenda in scathing open letter

New York Post ^ | January 30, 2021 | Dana Kennedy

[yoe]

Parents and alumni at the (tony Dalton School) have fired off a scathing open letter decrying the school’s new race-obsessed agenda.

The anonymous missive to the “Dalton community,” obtained by the Post, charges the “love of learning and teaching is now being abandoned in favor of an ‘anti-racist’ curriculum.”

[snip] It seems insane that we have to say this but let’s restore the centrality of education to the school’s mission.
....scathing open letter..

[yoe]

Yesterday we were treated with (Andrew Gutmann's letter) from another parent fed up with this Critical race theory/Marxist-BS.

I am sick and tired of the pandering, kneeling, funding, encouragement to break the law and abusers of our Constitution. I want Law & Order back in every village, town and city in the USA. Under former president Trump, we had that.

[Brian Griffin]

For what parents pay for a few kids to attend a tony school, they could hire a full-time tutor.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Anti-racism looks suspiciously like racism.

[Steely Tom]

The comments after that letter are interesting, although none of the points made will be unfamiliar to FReepers.

[colorado tanker]

For what parents pay for a few kids to attend a tony school, they could hire a full-time tutor.

They want the name too. That's an A Ticket to an Ivy League school.

[PGR88]

The Dalton School is full of leftist ideologues because the rich parents who send their children to this school want to have all the benefits of being an elitist in America, and want to be accepted in New York wealthy society. No doubt nearly all are fashionable leftists themselves. So these people are the ultimate conformists.

I don’t have a lot of sympathy for them. Being wealthy and elitists they are, they have maximum choices available to them and their children, but did nothing.

[rbg81]

“In the end the letter will likely be ignored and labeled racist or the result of white fragility,” the Dalton mother said.

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This assessment is likely correct. Unlike the Gutmann letter, this one was anonymous. The Dalton school will, rightly, take it as cowardess and proceed with their plans full speed ahead.

[GOPJ]

“What we’re seeing at the school now is the atrocious mismanagement of the precious social and intellectual development of children. It’s inexcusable for with an institution with a 100-year old pedagogy to have so quickly and sharply shifted to a radical and untested approach to child development and education.”

When I was young - women who today run corporations, sit on the bench as civil and criminal judges, run newspapers, sit in the Senate - were teaching 3rd and 4th graders... high schoolers etc.

Lots of stories about teachers who changed a person's life back then. That quality in teachers is rare today.

Today's private school teachers are the people who used to clerk in the five and dime... So yeah, it's easier to teach race hatred than higher math or decent ethics...or history.

[RossA]

Gutman had it right. This Dalton letter is 95% suckup to the racists

[BatGuano]

Didn’t Jeffery Epstein, the late Epstein, have something to do with The Dalton School? He may have attended or taught there.
The left love to stir up controversy, schools are included targets. I blame the school and they deserve the bad press.

[colorado tanker]

Epstein taught briefly at Dalton. He creeped out some of the girls but doesn't appear to have tried to have sex with them.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/12/nyregion/jeffrey-epstein-dalton-teacher.html

[Stravinsky]

What they really, really want is to be able to say, “When Susan was picked up from Dalton the other day...” at cocktail parties.

[Lisbon1940]

Dalton shouldn’t have an agenda. It is a school.