A Letter Every Parent Should Read

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  1. OldDude49

    OldDude49 Just n old guy

    worth the read IMHO.....

    Elitist white-privileged suburban Demos are CRT’s biggest backers.
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    Joe Biden just announced the next phase of the Left’s cradle-to-grave socialist indoctrination agenda. Ostensibly, as part of his effort to eradicate the mythical “systemic racism” monster, Biden administration race-hustlers want to force-feed their Marxist-infused Critical Race Theory — a racist curriculum being promoted as “civics education” — on children in government schools nationwide.

    This is the Biden/Harris regime’s rebuttal to a growing conservative effort to reintroduce genuine civics classes promoting a better understanding of American Liberty — which would be antithetical to the Left’s statist control agenda. Fact is, the most consequential “systemic racism” in America is the institutionalization of leftist Democrat social policies, which have enslaved black citizens on the Demos’ urban poverty plantations for generations. Among governors rejecting the Left’s woke curriculum is Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who declared his state’s schools will “expressly exclude” teaching Critical Race Theory. “There’s no room in our classrooms for things like Critical Race Theory,” DeSantis contends. “Teaching kids to hate their country and to hate each other is not worth one red cent of taxpayer money.”

    Of course, white-privileged suburban liberals, especially the legions of wealthy inheritance welfare leftists, are CRT’s biggest backers — starting with the elitist private schools their children attend.

    But one parent is taking on the miseducation of America’s elites, rejecting CRT in his child’s school. Andrew Gutmann wrote the administration and more than 600 parents of the exclusive Brearley girls school on the Upper East Side of Manhattan about why he was taking his daughter out of the school. His letter is an outstanding exposition on Critical Race Theory curriculum, and it should be read by every parent of school children.

    April 13, 2021

    Dear Fellow Parents,

    Our family recently made the decision not to reenroll 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 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 bulls—t 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 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

    A Letter Every Parent Should Read
     
  2. Cruisin Sloth

    Cruisin Sloth Special & Slow

    Well Said Dad !!
    We have the same BS up here in Canada .
    They must all get the same memo / BS instructions.
    Sloth
     
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  3. chelloveck

    chelloveck Diabolus Causidicus

    It's an interesting rant...I'm sure it will get a good coverage by Tucker Carlson and the rest of the culture wars pearl necklace clutching uber-right wing commentariat.

    Of course Gutmann is entitled to express his pining for that golden age when things were so much better, and I guess, when folks weren't so uptight about systemic racism. When reading his diatribe of outrage and disappointment, the voice of James Woods comes to mind.

    Guttman is deluding himself if he believes that systemic racism and structural inequity 11 Terms You Should Know to Better Understand Structural Racismmagically disappeared with the 1964 Civil Rights Act Our Documents - Civil Rights Act (1964) Civil Rights Act of 1964 Although the legislated cultural apartheid of the Jim Crow era has largely, formally been dismantled legislatively, it has simply been replaced by alternative legislative and social mechanisms, which although not as overt as back in the day, definitely dog whistle back to that disreputable past. Bill Aims To Ban Teaching About Systemic Racism; Doctor Calls It 'Wolf In Sheep's Clothing' A recent slew of voter suppression laws in some Republican dominated states in the USA is an admirable example of politically institutionalising inequity at the expense of minority voters.

    Now, Brearley School The Brearley School is a non government school, and as such is free to pursue its own policy objectives, subject to satisfying minimum government educational standards...if some parents are dissatisfied with the education that Brearley School provides, then malcontents such as Gutmann are free to exercise their free enterprise choice as a consumer and take their child to be educated in a school with values and educational policies that are more in agreement with their own world view...I do have to wonder whether such a school will actually teach Gutmann's child 'how to think', but 'what to think' that is more in alignment with their father's 'thinking'. :rolleyes: All in all...another child to be indoctrinated in a 'conservative' educational cocoon....Liberty University would seem to be a good option when his child is old enough. :LOL: Liberty University’s policies undermine freedom of expression

    Yes, I can see how Andrew Gutmann may have become triggered! ;)

     
    Last edited: Apr 23, 2021
  4. johnbb

    johnbb Monkey+++

    Great letter Bravo to you Mr Gutmann. I am so glad my three sons went to private school --it was a struggle financially to send them but they never got any of this leftist BS if they had I would have pulled them out in the blink of an eye and home schooled them.
     
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  5. arleigh

    arleigh Goophy monkey

    How then will the democrats manipulate the future if people are not taught to be racist?
     
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  6. johnbb

    johnbb Monkey+++

    Unfortunately the current black behavior is promoting racism IMO it is justified.
     
  7. enloopious

    enloopious Rocket Surgeon

    There is no systemic racism in America. Systemic racism is the replacement term for neo-marxism to replace "workers of the world unite". Instead of the proles and bourgeois they have replaced them with racists and the oppressed. Its all BS. This is why white and black people are calling other white and black people racists. It doesn't matter how you rehash Marxism, it will continue to fail because people are no longer willing to put up with being slaves. While they ARE dumbing down the schools, peoples brains still work. We can still remember that Marxism is evil division making people fight against each other instead of those who deserve it. Inequity is a lie designed to make people fight against each other using terms like "for or against abortion", "for or against gun rights", "for or against racism" instead of fighting the wealthy bankers and hidden elite. Those are the real enemies who OWN ACTUAL SLAVES and kill the masses with poisons, banking, and war while stealing everything they have.
     
  8. chelloveck

    chelloveck Diabolus Causidicus

    enloopius...you can paint anything you like as Marxist...or Neo-Marxist....but it doesn't actually redefine the essence of racism, which I dare say probably predates Marxism to biblical times.

    How about trying these defining characteristics of systemic racism:

    I'm happy for you, that you have your own personal understanding of racism, which exists uniquely in your own mind...but it isn't shared by many, It would have to be said.

    Racism is not unique to America...it is a phenomenon which exists world wide, but having said that...for the edification of your good self and others:







    One may place a Nelsonian telescope to one's blind eye, and declare that one only sees Neo-Marxism at work, but that is not how reality works...open both eyes and see.
     
  9. mysterymet

    mysterymet Monkey+++

    Mr. Gutmann’s views are not ultra right wing conservative. They are those of middle of the road independents sick of what is going on. I dislike republicans but the democrats scare the crap out of me. Here is a key, if in your statement about race you cannot substitute any race for another without the statement seeming very racist, guess what, it’s a racist statement! Making ANY race feel bad about their race is racist. People are individuals. There are good people and bad people of every race, gender, nationality, religion, sexual preference etc... this classification of people based on arbitrary features needs to stop. This demonizing groups of people for no reason needs to stop. What is happening today in the media is getting sickeningly close to the demonization that happened leading up to the Rwandan genocide. However, given the demographic split of this country the results are not going to be pretty. I pray for my country every day and just hope I have my farm outside of town before things get worse.
     
  10. Merkun

    Merkun furious dreamer

    Correct. Gutmann has achieved a different "wokeness" compared to what the other "woke" sheep have achieved. I have to say, Gutmann may well be on the leading edge of the revolution, whatever form it takes. A sheep no longer --
     
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