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A New York City private school has allegedly mandated that parents take "anti-racism" training as part of the admission process, leading one parent to withdraw his daughter and issue a scathing condemnation.Andrew Gutmann, an investment banker, was shocked to see some changes to The Brearley School’s admission process. Gutmann, who is White, said his daughter had attended the all-girls school in the Upper East Side since she was in kindergarten, but the new requirements so outraged him that he pulled her from the school. The school now requires at least one parent/guardian to participate in "required anti-racist training and ongoing...

Several of you posted links to and excerpts from the letter by Andrew Gutmann, the man pulling his daughter out of a private New York school, that’s gone viral. Today we’ll look at it again, but first let’s review some of the back story leading up to it.The school in question is Brearley, the New York private school of the Episcopalian Grace Church. With $54,000 a year tuition it enrolls children of the elite from all walks of life. The story was covered by Bari Weiss. In case you’ve forgotten, Weiss is the former New York Times Op-Ed editor/writer who...