By: Jared Evan
Parents of students across the nation have noticed that “critical race theory” based learning has crept into classrooms, and the radical educators are starting to face backlash, particularly at Manhattan’s elite private schools.
At the all girls Brearley School on Manhattan’s upper east side, the tuition is a $54,000 per year. It is a 761-student, K-12 private school, whose alumni include Caroline Kennedy, Jill Clayburgh, Téa Leoni, and Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney.
Andrew Gutmann, a father who sends his daughter to the elite school is fed up with the educational focus is on a radical anti-white race-based curriculum. It has been reported that he will not re-enroll his daughter in the fall, accusing the school of trying to “brainwash” kids with woke philosophies rather than teaching them how to think on their own, the NY Post highlighted.
The scathing 1,700-word letter that Gutmann penned was mailed to 650 families and went viral after writer Bari Weis featured the letter on her Substack account.
Some of Gutmann’s objections are the following:
“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”
“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 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”
Meanwhile a teacher at Grace Church High School in Manhattan, wrote a large piece objecting to the radical, Marxist, race based critical theory. The $46,000 a year co-ed High school with under 800 students, was accused of brainwashing students, using racially segregated classrooms, treating students differently on the basis of race, and punishing those who express doubt about its ideology and policies.
“Antiracist training sounds righteous, but it is the opposite of truth in advertising. It requires teachers like myself to treat students differently on the basis of race”, wrote teacher Paul Rossi.
” My school, like so many others, induces students via shame and sophistry to identify primarily with their race before their individual identities are fully formed. Students are pressured to conform their opinions to those broadly associated with their race and gender and to minimize or dismiss individual experiences that don’t match those assumptions. The morally compromised status of “oppressor” is assigned to one group of students based on their immutable characteristics. In the meantime, dependency, resentment, and moral superiority are cultivated in students considered “oppressed”, Rossi continued.
