Why Private Schools Have Gone Woke

Washington Free Beacon ^ | 7-28-21 | Aaron Sibarium

[DeweyCA]

What leftist liberals have done to our education system is insidious. They have taken control through the central accreditation organizations and created a system that not only creates a never-ending flow of cash to them, but also virtually eliminates any competition to their woke CRT ideology. This is much worse than I realized. It is the same way that liberals took over the mainline Christian denominations: by stealthily capturing control of the denominations' central administrative bodies. Leftists are very adept at getting inside the "system" and rotting it out from the core.

[bankwalker]

Who is Antonio Gramsci?

[glennaro]

Whatever they’ve done, whatever they plan to do we simply cannot let schools — public or private — teach America’s children to be racist. They get enough of that from listening and watching Democrats/Leftists.

[Mogger]

So a group of schools should pull out of the crazy association and start their own.

[Gene Eric]

Those bitching about “systematic racism” are in fact the racists.

Predatory racism is simply predatory.

[joshua c]

the father of cultural marxism

[plsvn]

Antonio Gramsci

I never heard of this guy either, but after reading Mark Levin's "American Marxism" and Michael Knowles' "Speechless", I learned Gramsci is basically the father of Critical Race Theory.

[Dr. Sivana]

So a group of schools should pull out of the crazy association and start their own.

That would likely have a negative impact on college admission. We have to break the hammerlock that the Ivy League (and Stanford & MIT) schools (and prestigious schools a notch or two below the Ivy League Schools [U of Chicago, Duke, Haverford, Carnegie-Mellon, Berkeley, etc.]) for credentialing.

I went to an old northeastern secular prep school. When I went, the teachers were a mixed bag, but were mostly good teachers. Even then, the conservatives were low-key and subtle. They weren't there to mold you into a conservative but to teach the course work. Even the liberal teachers allowed conservative thought if you could make your case well.

When I went back to visit on the eve of a run for state rep, I had a long meeting and update with Mrs. D, the wife of my long-time home room/science teacher. I recalled fondly a math teacher, Dr. Ararat, who was a good teacher, and would jokingly phrase word problem into concrete terms for the girl students. ("Think of it as mink coats.") The girls were charmed by it, and took no offense. Mrs. D triumphantly crowed that he would never be able to get away with that anymore. Sheesh!

The students with money were either foreigners, or if they were stateside quite liberal. They drove things MUCH more than the accreditation committees would, in my opinion.

[PGR88]

Thanks for this - I never realized the huge role of monopolistic accreditation groups, and their ideological agenda.

The solution is get out completely.

In my small city, a group of parents created their own self-run, orthodox Catholic school - even though the long-established Catholic schools are closing. They have grown from 5 to 150 students in the past 7 years.

[cgbg]

diversity, inclusion, equity, and justice

= the final solution for white people.

There can be no "equity" as long as one white person remains alive.

[BobL]

“The disgruntled parents, Glasgow said, were like the “white supremacists” who stormed the Capitol.”

The thing is, until their daughters are raped, on a regular basis, these parents will keep sending their kids to schools like Dalton, and just brush off the above comment.

[100%FEDUP]

He’s the father of Democritization or as we know it Political Correctness.

[Fledermaus]

Teachers are scum.

[Fledermaus]

Teachers Unions are Evil.

[cgbg]

What kids need to learn is how to be world class hackers.

There are battles to be fought, and the elite prep schools and colleges are going to produce flacks for the enemy.

[BobL]

Wow, even for me, I didn’t know it was that bad. I did see some rot taking place when my kids were in private school - as the years moved forward, the schools got worse and worse.

This is a tough one to fight and there’s likely nothing that can be done about parents who demand Ivory League schools, but wow, now I see why the Left doesn’t complain about private schools, they control them too.

[SES1066]

I have never seen a more telling logic of the OTHER SIDE of that old maxim; “Those who can - DO, Those who can’t - TEACH”! We as a nation watched the SAT & ACT scores drop while school costs and teacher pay kept increasing! Now academia is dropping much reliance on the testing, perhaps they are sick of seeing their failures?

These (NON) educators have crafted the academic equivalent of the Mafia; “It would be a shame if your kids suffered from your refusal to follow our rules!” Parents know that the public schools are a mess, here we see that even horribly expensive private schools are equally infected by the LEFT’s dominance of academia!

We need a new equivalent of Eisenhower’s warning speech on unholy collusions. In his farewell address in 1961, the outgoing President and 5-Star General warned of the dangers in an unfettered military–industrial complex, where the two operation essentially collude at the expense of the taxpaying citizen. NOW, we see the same collusion between Academia and the Government (Dept. of Education / Student Loans / “Dear Colleague” Letters)!

So glad I am past this at my age! For what it is worth, I give to Hillsdale College, a bastion of free education, unfettered by the Federal Government as no Federal Money is taken by them or their students. There are other such, like Grove City, I just know and favor Hillsdale.

[BobL]

“So a group of schools should pull out of the crazy association and start their own.”

Covered towards the end of the article:
1) Nothing requires the ‘good’ colleges to give credibility to a new organization, and they well may not give credibility to an organization that doesn’t align with their (sick) ‘values’.
2) Most of the people now working in private schools likely agree with the Leftist agenda (the rest were driven out).

[cgbg]

My elite prep school was wildly leftist even in the late 1960s.

I have stories that would blow people away, but I can never tell them because I value my privacy far too much...

The left is vicious.

They are raw evil.

I had to learn it—as a teenager—the hard way.

[BobL]

“The left is vicious. They are raw evil.”

Are you saying that they are NOT ‘Our friends across the aisle’, or something? Dan Crenshaw may not appreciate comments like that.