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SOMEONE HAD TO DO IT

The Brearley School, a private girl’s school in Manhattan, which charges parents $54,000 a year for the dubious honor of sending their daughters to be indoctrinated, has gone all in for the WOKE mindset. Finally, parents are rebelling. The headmaster recently stepped down amid growing complaints.

The following is a letter from one parent explaining why he will not be enrolling his daughter in the coming academic year. It’s too bad our so-called politicians seem unable to grasp the fundamental truths outlined in this letter, which, to be fair, is more a manifesto in support of concepts all too often censored from our public discourse. It’s long, but he had a lot to say.


April 13, 2021

Dear Fellow Brearley Parents,

Our family recently made the decision not to re-enroll our daughter at Brearley for the 2021-22 school year. She has been at Brearley for seven years, beginning in kindergarten. In short, we no longer believe that Brearley’s administration and Board of Trustees have any of our children’s best interests at heart.

Moreover, we no longer have confidence that our daughter will receive the quality of education necessary to further her development into a critically-thinking, responsible, enlightened, and civic-minded adult. I write to you, as a fellow parent, to share our reasons for leaving the Brearley community but also to urge you to act before the damage to the school, to its community, and to your own child’s education is irreparable.

It cannot be stated strongly enough that Brearley’s obsession with race must stop. It should be abundantly clear to any thinking parent that Brearley has completely lost its way. The administration and the Board of Trustees have displayed a cowardly and appalling lack of leadership by appeasing an anti-intellectual, illiberal mob, and then allowing the school to be captured by that same mob. What follows are my own personal views on Brearley’s antiracism initiatives, but these are just a handful of the criticisms that I know other parents have expressed.

I object to the view that I should be judged by the color of my skin. I cannot tolerate a school that not only judges my daughter by the color of her skin, but encourages and instructs her to prejudge others by theirs. By viewing every element of education, every aspect of history, and every facet of society through the lens of skin color and race, we are desecrating the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and utterly violating the movement for which such civil rights leaders believed, fought, and died.

I object to the charge of systemic racism in this country, and at our school. Systemic racism, properly understood, is segregated schools and separate lunch counters. It is the interning of the Japanese and the exterminating of Jews. Systemic racism is unequivocally not a small number of isolated incidences over a period of decades. Ask any girl, of any race, if they have ever experienced insults from friends, have ever felt slighted by teachers or have ever suffered the occasional injustice from a school at which they have spent up to 13 years of their life, and you are bound to hear grievances, some petty, some not. We have not had systemic racism against Blacks in this country since the civil rights reforms of the 1960s, a period of more than 50 years. To state otherwise is a flat-out misrepresentation of our country’s history and adds no understanding to any of today’s societal issues. If anything, longstanding and widespread policies such as affirmative action, point in precisely the opposite direction.

I object to a definition of systemic racism, apparently supported by Brearley, that any educational, professional, or societal outcome where Blacks are underrepresented is prima facie evidence of the aforementioned systemic racism, or of white supremacy and oppression. Facile and unsupported beliefs such as these are the polar opposite to the intellectual and scientific truth for which Brearley claims to stand. Furthermore, I call bullshit on Brearley’s oft-stated assertion that the school welcomes and encourages the truly difficult and uncomfortable conversations regarding race and the roots of racial discrepancies.

I object to the idea that Blacks are unable to succeed in this country without aid from the government or from whites. Brearley, by adopting critical race theory, is advocating the abhorrent viewpoint that Blacks should forever be regarded as helpless victims, and are incapable of success regardless of their skills, talents, or hard work. What Brearley is teaching our children is precisely the true and correct definition of racism.

I object to mandatory anti-racism training for parents, especially when presented by the rent-seeking charlatans of Pollyanna. These sessions, in both their content and delivery, are so sophomoric and simplistic, so unsophisticated and inane, that I would be embarrassed if they were taught to Brearley kindergarteners. They are an insult to parents and unbecoming of any educational institution, let alone one of Brearley’s caliber.

I object to Brearley’s vacuous, inappropriate, and fanatical use of words such as “equity,” “diversity” and “inclusiveness.” If Brearley’s administration was truly concerned about so-called “equity,” it would be discussing the cessation of admissions preferences for legacies, siblings, and those families with especially deep pockets. If the administration was genuinely serious about “diversity,” it would not insist on the indoctrination of its students, and their families, to a single mindset, most reminiscent of the Chinese Cultural Revolution. Instead, the school would foster an environment of intellectual openness and freedom of thought. And if Brearley really cared about “inclusiveness,” the school would return to the concepts encapsulated in the motto “One Brearley,” instead of teaching the extraordinarily divisive idea that there are only, and always, two groups in this country: victims and oppressors.

l object to Brearley’s advocacy for groups and movements such as Black Lives Matter, a Marxist, anti-family, heterophobic, anti-Asian, and anti-Semitic organization that neither speaks for the majority of the Black community in this country nor in any way, shape or form, represents their best interests.

I object to, as we have been told time and time again over the past year, that the school’s first priority is the safety of our children. For goodness sake, Brearley is a school, not a hospital! The number one priority of a school has always been, and always will be, education. Brearley’s misguided priorities exemplify both the safety culture and “cover-your-ass” culture that together have proved so toxic to our society and have so damaged the mental health and resiliency of two generations of children, and counting.

I object to the gutting of the history, civics, and classical literature curriculums. I object to the censorship of books that have been taught for generations because they contain dated language potentially offensive to the thin-skinned and hypersensitive (something that has already happened in my daughter’s 4th grade class). I object to the lowering of standards for the admission of students and for the hiring of teachers. I object to the erosion of rigor in classwork and the escalation of grade inflation. Any parent with eyes open can foresee these inevitabilities should antiracism initiatives be allowed to persist.

We have today in our country, from both political parties, and at all levels of government, the most unwise and unvirtuous leaders in our nation’s history. Schools like Brearley are supposed to be the training grounds for those leaders. Our nation will not survive a generation of leadership even more poorly educated than we have now, nor will we survive a generation of students taught to hate its own country and despise its history.

Lastly, I object, with as strong a sentiment as possible, that Brearley has begun to teach what to think, instead of how to think. I object that the school is now fostering an environment where our daughters, and our daughters’ teachers, are afraid to speak their minds in class for fear of “consequences.” I object that Brearley is trying to usurp the role of parents in teaching morality, and bullying parents to adopt that false morality at home.

I object that Brearley is fostering a divisive community where families of different races, which until recently were part of the same community, are now segregated into two. These are the reasons why we can no longer send our daughter to Brearley.

Over the past several months, I have personally spoken to many Brearley parents as well as parents of children at peer institutions. It is abundantly clear that the majority of parents believe that Brearley’s antiracism policies are misguided, divisive, counterproductive and cancerous. Many believe, as I do, that these policies will ultimately destroy what was until recently, a wonderful educational institution. But as I am sure will come as no surprise to you, given the insidious cancel culture that has of late permeated our society, most parents are too fearful to speak up.

But speak up you must. There is strength in numbers and I assure you, the numbers are there. Contact the administration and the Board of Trustees and demand an end to the destructive and anti-intellectual claptrap known as antiracism. And if changes are not forthcoming then demand new leadership. For the sake of our community, our city, our country and most of all, our children, silence is no longer an option.

Respectfully,
Andrew Gutmann

Edgework 8 Apr 19
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Like I've said, you fight this SH-T with your check book, it is the only thing THEY understand!!!!

Serg97 Level 8 Apr 19, 2021
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Apparently, there is at least one sane man left in New York!

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The parents strike back!

At the elite bourgeois Dalton School in New York City, parents denounced the wokeness of the school and got the headmaster fired. They also got the diversity coordinator fired.

[breitbart.com]

Republicans need to protest, because Democrats only respect protests. A good protest target is corrupt teachers and corrupt school administrations. Protest right outside the school.

The reason leftists want heavy government spending on schools is to take away parent choice. They want government to pay for college instead of parents. If parents are paying for school, then pigs don't fly. Leftists hate private school vouchers because they empower parents.

I consider the indoctrination of children to be in the highest tier of evil. I'm in the teaching world and I'm waging war against leftist teachers.

The bursting of the college bubble: jaymaron.com/collegebubble.html [jaymaron.com]
The plot shows which colleges are doomed.

“Diversity Coordinator”??? What next, a Surfboard Waxing Instructor, a Safe Space Tour Guide, a Gender Studies Professor? Oh.. wait, that last one is actually a thing... Crap, our children are in serious danger!

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What is wrong with a private institution conducting how they wish? If parents don't like it they can go elsewhere.

they can go elsewhere, true, but they can also participate in leadership through whatever influence their voices and dollars might provide them.

Evidently, they are going elsewhere. Mr Guttman is evidently just letting the school know why he is taking his daughter elsewhere, so they know what to try changing when getting woke starts to send them broke!

To Jackson comments:What’s wrong with an educational institution teaching Marxist ideology . We can go elsewhere Right? But how is that Elsewhere spreads everywhere, if it were not for you and me to stop it?
They are dead set on feeding our children ☠️ regular or private schools. Isn’t time to burn the books? Send a message. We are in control of out children now. No more detached from the system parents. Running the schools belongs to the parents and that’s that. Let them try teaching an empty school.

@neverover not sure what your attached photo has to do with anything...

I keep hearing how "just go somewhere else" is a Conservative value.

Want a cake for your same-sex wedding, and a baker doesn't support marriage equality? Just go to a different baker. Who cares if no bakers around support marriage equality, tough.

Want an abortion, but the state has passed restrictions that forced the closure of every clinic in the state? Just go somewhere else, tough.

Don't like that the SCOTUS told Philadelphia that they are required to give public taxpayer money to a Catholic organization which discriminates against same sex couples and single parents when it comes to adoption? Tough, go somewhere else. And if all available agencies decide they want to discriminate, again, tough.

I recently had an argument with someone here about "state's rights" and how a state should be able to pass whatever laws they want, even slavery, and it isn't oppressive or anti-Constitutional because you can always just move to another state. Hey, look at all the people moving out of California for Texas or Tennessee.

So, if you don't like what a current school is teaching, go somewhere else. Enroll in private school. Homeschool. Move to Texas where the governor banned teaching the history of racism, but is mandating the curriculum teach that Communism is evil. Seems to be the Conservative way.

Also, I'd love to hear what exact "Marxist ideology" is being taught, specifically, in the curriculum. Specifics please, not just a blanket "they're teaching CRT!" you hear from the GOP mouthpieces.

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Mandatory anti-racism training for parents?! WTF?!

Scuba diving for Lefties, to give them a decent burial? Aren’t we nice?

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