Another brave soul pushing back against CRT in elite private schools
Bari Weiss has published another letter from a parent criticizing CRT in an elite school. The platform is Substack, which has now become one of the most important libertarian sources of information and opinion, frequently used by Bari Weiss and Glenn Greenwald and Matt Taibbi and Andrew Sullivan (who is not always a voice with which I agree, to say the least, but who does have an interest in liberty and has written some good things lately). None of those people can be described as conservatives, but they are standing tall on the issues of liberty and free speech right now, and seem alarmed by the takeover of education by CRT and other “woke” philosophies.
The letter is written by Andrew Gutmann, and this time the school is Brearley, and apparently Gutmann emailed a copy to all the parents at the school. The letter is excellent and I suggest reading it in its entirety, but here are a few excerpts [emphasis mine]:
Our family recently made the decision not to reenroll our daughter at Brearley for the 2021-22 school year…[W]e 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.
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…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.
There’s a great deal more in that vein, and it’s well worth reading. Gutmann is another brave man, and what I wrote recently about Paul Rossi, a teacher at another elite school who wrote a somewhat similar letter, applies to Gutmann as well.
But what of the other parents? Are they silent? And if so, why? One voice crying in the Brearley wilderness – however on target, however logical – is not going to get anywhere. Why aren’t nearly all the parents incensed about this and doing something about it?
I think I know the answer. These parents are probably mostly in their 30s through 50s. As such, they themselves are the products of an educational system that had become far more of an indoctrination in leftism than ever was the case when I was in school long ago. So many may subscribe to things such as CRT, or at least be susceptible to them.
But many who might otherwise speak out are almost undoubtedly afraid, as I wrote in the Rossi post. The costs are potentially high, and most people are not willing to pay them. I’ve had personal experience with this in an academic (university) setting while in graduate school in the 1990s. My battle wasn’t primarily about politics, although it had political overtones of which I wasn’t aware at the time. I was able to be courageous for the simple reason that I didn’t much care if they threw me out or gave me bad recommendations; I was already older, and I didn’t need the degree in order to put food on the table. There was no social media back then, either, to spread the word about what an awful person I was.
And yet, although it didn’t cost much to be brave and stand up to some things I saw happening at the university that were wrong, I stood alone. Quite a few people would come to me in private and say they agreed with me, but none were willing to say it publicly and certainly not to the people in charge. They were scared that it would affect their future careers, and this was in a climate much less vicious than today’s. I was surprised at the time that I had no allies willing to speak out publicly, but it surprises me no more.
The stakes are much higher now. The hour is much later.
[NOTE: This is not merely a private school phenomenon, of course. CRT is in the public schools, and in some cases what’s being taught in its name is being kept from parents. i may write another post some time about what’s happening regarding CRT in public schools.]
Neo– Here is a link to the full series of Christopher Rufo’s articles on CRT and “woke” education published online by City Journal:
https://www.city-journal.org/christopher-rufo-on-woke-education
Most of his articles are about CRT in public schools, but one deals with CRT in the military.
I suspect that it’s merely a matter of time, and sooner rather than later at that, before these schools on the POSH end of the spectrum CRT themselves out of existence.
With the universities trailing not too far behind.
Meanwhile, schools that offer a SANE education will likely find themselves a niche…unless “Biden” undermines them, which is a distinct possibility because, you know, “UNITY”!
Chris Rufo (originally, a film-maker) is indeed one of the most valiant warriors against the BLM/CRT/1619 insanity, which is threatening to poison the minds of millions upon millions of schoolchildren. James Lindsay (co-author of the excellent Cynical Theories) is also brave enough to join the battle, but are these intelligent and courageous voices of dissent against the malign and fully regnant ideology sufficient to stem the tide of “woke” madness engulfing the nation, when our very own ambassador to the UN (Linda Thomas-Greenfield) parrots the propaganda of the CCP on the racist past and the evil present of this country?
Many years ago, shortly after my daughter had graduated from 8th grade, her private school hired a new Headmaster. He announced that he was going to institute an “outcome based curriculum.” The parents held a meeting and demanded that a Board member attend and explain. The Board member attended and told the parents that they could send their children elsewhere if they did not like it. That fall, the school was advertising for applications in the local Pennysaver.
Obviously, that was not a school with a long history and very high tuition (It was not negligible) and this very expensive school has a parent base of probably leftist social leaders and deep pockets. It will be interesting if these parent groups begin to rebel.
By the way, that daughter is now 40 and with her own daughter. This is not new. It is worse.
UN follow-up:
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/psaki-biden-un-ambassador-founding-documents-weaved-racism
The fish stinks from the head.
+ Electoral College Surprise!!
https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1382748501919072257
I’m pleased he spoke out. I do note he’s not particularly brave. He’s a dissatisfied customer telling a service-provider publicly that their product stinks and he’s taking his business elsewhere. The product does stink and they quite deliberately made it stink. It’s now time for the rest of the parents to quit dithering and do likewise. Let the Brearley School collapse.
People who are willing and able to pay $54,000 a year for primary and secondary schooling must know someone in the commercial real estate business who can identify a satisfactory site for a new school that can corral the disgruntled parents and faculty. And they must know someone with the organizational skill to make it happen.
This is the whole point of Robin De Angelo’s book, White Fragility, to give the CRT proponents a way of gaslighting any pushback against the indoctrination. I would be willing to bet you that Gutmann’s name has been added to a list being kept by certain university admissions officers. His daughter obviously comes from the wrong kind of people.
This is the whole point of Robin De Angelo’s book, White Fragility, to give the CRT proponents a way of gaslighting any pushback against the indoctrination.
Robin DiAngelo is a sub-mediocre professor in the teacher-training faculty of an ordinary state college. She knows nothing of actual teaching methods (this is manifest in her publication list) and she has no scholarly disposition. The issue of this hackademic shouldn’t intimidate people who earn well enough to avail themselves of the Brearley School’s services.
Gutmann still lives and works in New York, presumably, which means he may very well face backlash from colleagues and friends. And his daughter still needs an education. Reaction to this may not be insignificant to him or to his daughter.
Art Deco:
Nevertheless, DiAngelo and her workshops are huge in the academic circuit. Administrators and “inclusion” “experts” love her and pay the big bucks. Her workshops are like leftist struggle sessions and use many techniques of group pressure to intimidate people. Most people in them are very intimidated and reluctant to stand up against her.
However, at Brearly, it’s not the DiAngelo workshops that are happening. It’s other types of CRT being integrated into the entire curriculum of the school with the approval of the administrators and many teachers. The parents are faced with a complete overhaul of the curriculum to reflect that, and it’s also couched in Orwellian terms like “equity” and “anti-racism” so that if they’re not aware and paying very close attention they won’t know that this is happening. That’s why Gutmann sent the email to all the parents.
Occasionally, I listen to NPR. I’m the course of listening to NPR over the past couple of years, I have heard stories from black people telling about their experience with “racism” and from what I can tell, they mostly see any slight against them as being because they are black.
Tanehesi Coates had one story about going to the movies with his son and some women pushed ahead of them to get on the escalator before them. I’ve been to that theater — people are constantly racing to beat other people to the escalator. It’s Manhattan — people assume everyone is slower than they are and don’t want to be stuck behind them on the escalator. The woman pushing in front of Coates and his kids didn’t do it because he and his son were black; she did it because she’s rude.
Another woman told about fifteen different times she experienced “racism.” I had experienced nine of those things myself. Again, because people are just rude.
Another story about “racism at Dartmouth”: A black alumnus was talking about how Dartmouth cut its track team but pushed it’s sailing team. Track had a lot of black men athletes. Sailing was all white, men and women. He thought Dartmouth was doing it out of “racism.” I was telling at the radio: “You idiot! It’s Title IX and Obama Administration’ reinterpreting it!!”
While I’m sure there are genuine instances of racism, I think the vast majority is just people being overly sensitive and ascribing any perceived slight they expressive to “racism.”
Art Deco:
On the contrary, he’s brave. In the current climate this incident obviously doesn’t stay between him and the school, and I’m sure he gave Weiss permission to put his letter on the site. He may have enough money at this point to not suffer financially, but he will be ostracized and his family (including children) will also pay a price, especially in NY.
PA Cat:
Rufo does great work.
Related (though something you’re definitely NOT supposed to know about):
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/major-black-leaders-come-out-support-voter-id-slam-totally-oblivious
https://justthenews.com/government/state-houses/ga-governor-candidate-criticism-voter-id-white-liberals-think-black-people
Sadly, CRT is everywhere now. Our rural congregation is 170 years old, part of a mainstream Protestant denomination. We have seen creeping far left influences at the denomination level for years, but our congregation has remained traditional.
In the last two years, the denomination leaders and seminaries have gone whole hog on CRT, and our female pastor has emerged from indoctrination sessions with an intense fervor.
Our congregants are aging, traditional people with good, open hearts to all. But we find the constant barrage of Critical Race Theory commentary and weekly reminders of structural racism (recently adding many comments about loving our transgendered neighbors) wearying. The Gospel message is losing its focus on individual faith and salvation through grace, instead distorted into mass movement beliefs that increasingly trend toward heresy. It is so sad.
Neo, please forgive me if this sort of comment is inappropriate and unwelcome. I guess my unfulfilled secret ambition in life was to be a copy editor. In your otherwise excellent essay, for “ascribe” read “subscribe” and for “people people” read “few people”.
Another domino is falling: the head of the elite Dalton School in NYC announced his departure at the end of 2021 after 16 years as head. The school’s director of diversity already left in February after a group of Dalton parents objected to the school’s “obsessive focus on race and identity, ‘racist cop’ reenactments in science, ‘de-centering whiteness’ in art class, learning about white supremacy and sexuality in health class . . . .”
https://nypost.com/2021/04/16/head-of-nycs-posh-dalton-school-to-leave-at-end-of-2021/
bof:
Actually, I welcome copy editing. Sometimes I miss things. Thanks.
By chance, I read the letter just before visiting here. It is indeed an excellent letter and I agree as to Gutmann’s bravery.
In that letter, Gutmann mentions that he’s spoken with many parents and implies that the majority agree with him. Yet I too expect that fear of retribution will keep almost all silent.
When liberty is seriously threatened, retention of it requires sacrifice. An unwillingness to bite the bullet and accept whatever sacrifice is required ensures that those who refused to fight when they could will eventually pay a far greater price.
Though they will deserve their fate, their children and children’s children will not and upon that sin they will stand condemned.
In their silence and acquiescence, they are enabling the fashioning of the chains of their children’s future enslavement.
Yet I too expect that fear of retribution will keep almost all silent.
They’re customers. They’re not afraid of retribution. The people paying full freight are people who can afford lawyers and some of them are people-that-know-people.
Another domino is falling: the head of the elite Dalton School in NYC announced his departure at the end of 2021 after 16 years as head. The school’s director of diversity already left in February
That’s about two down and about 90 to go, not counting the majority faction on the board of trustees. This is rope-a-dope by the Polyanna pushers on the board.
and our female pastor has emerged from indoctrination sessions with an intense fervor.
No ordinary middle aged woman is manipulable in this way, especially when they have the intellectual lattice of their education. And no clergyman worth more than a pitcher of warm spit loses sight of his function – the one he has that no one else has – and that is to teach, sanctify, and govern.
See Robert Stacy McCain on the protestant clergy. McCain hypothesizes that sixty years ago, you might have found a dozen capable preachers in a small city, while today there is one. The megachurch phenomenon is people crowding into one building to hear the one. McCain’s tentative view is that the churches suffer because the divinity schools and seminaries attract, admit, and retain mediocre people. See also Leon Podles on lady clergy: they went into the ministry because they wanted to be den mothers on salary.
From what I’ve seen of the mainline protestant clergy, those bodies would be better off if the clergy were recruited from the ranks of older business and professional people who were semi-retired or had other employments. I’ve known a few mainline clergy in recent decades I found honorable and instructive to talk to; every last one of them was retired from or following some other occupation.
Nevertheless, DiAngelo and her workshops are huge in the academic circuit.
Which tells you higher education is run by hollow men.
Our congregants are aging, traditional people with good, open hearts to all. But we find the constant barrage of Critical Race Theory commentary and weekly reminders of structural racism (recently adding many comments about loving our transgendered neighbors) wearying. The Gospel message is losing its focus on individual faith and salvation through grace, instead distorted into mass movement beliefs that increasingly trend toward heresy. It is so sad.
Either the vestry / session / diaconate listens or they don’t. If they listen, chose voice. If they do not, chose exit, and tell them why. I would not waste my time contending with any inner-ringers who may run that congregation. If they’re not open to bouncing that stupid woman, find another congregation.
but he will be ostracized
No, he will be dumped by people who are not worth his time. It’s like a loan portfolio with a mess of sour loans. Time to write off.
And his daughter still needs an education.
For $54,000 a year, he can hire a governess.
Art Deco:
They may not be worth the time to you, but you know what? You are not him, and you are not the other parents. If he or the other parents live in NY – and I’m going to assume they do – the group doing the ostracizing could include just about everyone the parents know and also their relatives.
And unless they are either independently wealthy or perhaps self-employed in some job without much interaction, it includes work associates and may even cause a person to be fired.
Ostracism is no joke and it’s hard, and that is the case even if the people doing the ostracizing are “not worth it” in the eyes of Art Deco.
Art Deco:
Allan Bloom described those hollow men in academia – he called them “dancing bears” – back in the 80s. It’s gotten much much worse since then. And it also includes a great many women.
In fact, at this point, it is very rare to find anyone other than such people (hollow men and women; dancing bears) as university administrators. It’s nearly a clean sweep.
Except that many of them these days are also True Believers. They aren’t dancing to someone else’s tune, they’re also composing it.
Art Deco:
I had a male friend who was romantically involved with a female pastor in some Protestant denomination a few years ago. He said that she had previously been a social worker, wasn’t especially religious or that much of a believer, but went into the clergy because she thought it would make her more effective at doing what was essentially social work. I wonder whether that is a common career trajectory these days.
the group doing the ostracizing could include just about everyone the parents know and also their relatives.
You’re letting your imagination run wild here.
Amy,
if your preacher cannot affirm that Jesus is and was (1) the Son of God (2) the “ Messiah “ or the “ Christ” promised in multiple Old Testament prophecies, ( 3 ) died as a substitutionary sacrifice for sins as the ultimate Passover Lamb and (4) rose again then your preacher is a false teacher. Even if she affirms those things she may still be a false teacher, but those are good places to start. I have come to believe in asking a direct set of questions about basic aspects of the Christian faith when dealing with “ progressive” Christians. And then see how much they squirm.
Art Deco:
No, I’m not. It’s something I have witnessed quite a few times, and people have often written about it. It’s not unusual.
“Sir, a woman’s preaching is like a dog’s walking on his hind legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all.” — Samuel Johnson.
Art Deco has decided that the father is not brave, Amy should abandon relationships in her congregation, and that neo doesn’t know her own mind or her experience. About par, an amazing mind.
Art Deco, I think I’m getting the point you’re trying to make – that the woke have power because we give them power.
But unfortunately it’s too often not true. In a situation like this one, an exclusive school peopled by a social elite, it’s more likely than not (1) that most of the parents move in the same circles, (2) that some of those parents are True Believers themselves, and (3) that the True Believers have some amount of real power or influence in the world that can affect the lives of those with whom they disagree. The daughter in particular is vulnerable, as several have noted: her name goes on a list now, and though the reason she’s given for being denied admission to a university or a position of employment might be innocuous, it could certainly come back to this moment: “her father is a RACIST and needs to be taught a lesson!”
If you have time on your hands, mosey through the comments at Bari’s post.
Most of the real commenters agree with Gutmann.
There are a couple of trolls who insisted that Critical Race Theory is ideologically benign and genuinely anti-racist, as opposed to being the New Improved Version of racism that it actually is, and they got courteous replies until it was clear they were not serious about responding to criticism or addressing the difference in viewpoints with any hard evidence. When confronted with such, they disappeared.
They seemed very like Montage and Manju, who used to be assigned to Neo’s blog. It’s a very sophisticated level of trolling, suited to the salons they infest.
On alternative schooling: $54,000 a year for a governess to do the home-schooling for you is very do-able outside NY. If a couple of parents pool their payments, they can get even better instruction, with possibly two teachers to split the specialties.
My sister-in-law in Colorado hired a woman to teach her two kids (by themselves) for several years, because she & her husband was busy running a complex business, and neither one is academically trained or with the right personality for teaching.
There are probably plenty of people in NY who can do the one-room-school thing on a private level.
Not that I’m blowing my own horn, because I’m not unique in my (Boomer) generation, but I myself could teach every substantive subject from kindergarten through middle school without any difficulty (in either a small group, or a large group with a hand-holding aide), and also all of the general high school classes (including what now passes for AP), because I had a decent university education and keep myself well-read. I taught college-level for several years, and have subbed in the K-12 for a few; the greatest difficulty there was teaching around the lousy textbooks, and discipline in some of the classes (very few, fortunately).
Everything in the Teacher Education classes that is actually needed for classroom effectiveness can be covered in about 6 months of book larnin’ and a couple of months observation or apprenticeship with an adequate role model.
@AesopFan:
You’re doing good work and I’m not trying to score points off you. But I’m going to be a bit nit-picky here:
“…as opposed to being the New Improved Version of racism that it actually is.”
What you say is not incorrect. However, a simpler, truer, more parsimonious statement is “Critical Race Theory is Anti-White”.
Ultimately the aim of the game is to Do Away With (Demographics Mediation Mission Creep is a concept many of you here should be vaguely familiar with :P) Pesky White Common Folk as a political and economic force in the West. Let’s be blunt. They want us dead and gone. No point mincing words here.
Exercise for the Reader:
Does reading the expression ‘X is Anti-White’ make you feel vaguely ill-at-ease about the messenger? If so, and you are in fact White, why does it do so? What would a potential enemy of White People have to do or say to you and yours before you could accept that said enemy had a problem with White People and not (say) Left-handed Leprechauns with a Pale Tint?
(Sunday Afternoon Rant Concludes.)
Some statements by Mr. Gutmann on why he wrote his letter.
To me, it was interesting that the author obviously skimmed Bari’s comment section; the “Matt” quoted at the end of the post is one of the Trolls I mentioned.
https://nypost.com/2021/04/17/dad-who-wrote-letter-to-brearley-about-race-focus-someone-had-to/
Don’t just push back against schools.
Quit giving money to the companies that enable or promote The New Improved Racism of CRT. A sample from their Foods category.
http://www.investingadvicewatchdog.com/Liberal-Companies-Boycott.html
And this just has me SMH, especially after the Conservative Buy-Cott we gave them not too long ago.
“Chic-Fil-A – Donated to the despicable, far-left organization the Southern Poverty Law Center. For fast food, perhaps go to Jimmy John’s, In-N-Out Burger, Dominoes. UPDATE: We love the circular firing squad! Georgia leftists are now boycotting Chic-Fil-A for not fulfilling their latest ransom demand: To speak out against Georgia’s voter ID law. Proof that leftists are never ever satisfied.”
Not the same school systems – presumably Brearley is not unionized? – but same mindset, same solution.
If this is the kind of teachers kids are missing out on, they should KEEP those schools closed.
Skipping straight to the bottom line.
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2021/04/17/teachers-union-head-has-a-huge-self-awareness-fail-about-schools-plus-a-big-math-problem-n363243
Isn’t it troubling to hear that all the contra voices are liberal ? Is there no concern that a conservative is not willing to stand up?
Conservatives aren’t just counter liberals. They stand asthwart history.
Neo…you asked re female clergy…
“I wonder whether that is a common career trajectory these days.”
For the lion’s share of the female clergy I have known: Yes definitely.
They view it as therapy for the masses & for themselves.
But unfortunately it’s too often not true. In a situation like this one, an exclusive school peopled by a social elite, it’s more likely than not (1) that most of the parents move in the same circles, (2) that some of those parents are True Believers themselves, and (3) that the True Believers have some amount of real power or influence in the world that can affect the lives of those with whom they disagree.
You’re spinning hypotheticals. And, no, in a city the size of New York, it’s a reasonable wager they a do not, because there are so many circles with so many people in them. Even in a city the size of Rochester, it’s going to be people you’re not acquainted or with whom you have only a tangential acquaintanceship.
Look, all of this is based on lies. Big, stinking, lies. What needs to happen for it to go away is for a critical mass of people to tell the purveyors (e.g. the headmistress of the Brearley School) that they’re sick of the lies, get lost. These are affluent people, often influential people, often people with demanding employment requiring sophistication and savvy. They’re allowing sh!t-ass school administrators who could never do what they do push them around. The administrators and their confederates among the faculty need to be told ‘you’re hired help, jerk, do the job for which you were hired and quit trying to mess with my kid’s head’.
No, I’m not. It’s something I have witnessed quite a few times,
Then you have a very peculiar circle of friends.
I have seen something vaguely resembling that just once: in a college town among faculty on the opposite sides of intramural disputes over the operation of one program. (One of these women wrote a book on the subject wherein some of these disputes were alluded to). Life ain’t the faculty in a burg with 4,000 people in it. The people who knew them all chose sides, so they weren’t bereft. And faculty do have their strategies for transacting business with other faculty they hate.
“Sir, a woman’s preaching is like a dog’s walking on his hind legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all.” — Samuel Johnson.
Preaching isn’t done well anywhere. I once knew a Melkite priest who was a fine preacher. When you saw how he worked, you could discern that his was a method which could be learned by other priests. I’ve never seen anyone else work his way.
Everything in the Teacher Education classes that is actually needed for classroom effectiveness can be covered in about 6 months of book larnin’ and a couple of months observation or apprenticeship with an adequate role model.
I think that might work for academic high school teachers. If you’re talking about teaching young children, teaching children with some serious deficits, or teaching youngsters who haven’t learned English well, a more extensive menu of methods courses and longer apprenticeship might be in order. Now, look at the bibliography of Robin diAngelo (including her dissertation). She knows nothing of note about teaching methods, but she has a spot on a teacher-training faculty.
You’re spinning hypotheticals. And, no, in a city the size of New York, it’s a reasonable wager they a do not, because there are so many circles with so many people in them.
Art Deco, do you live in Manhattan? I do and my daughter went to an elite private school there. If you added up the student populations of every K-12 private school, you’d get a total number akin to one single large suburban high school.
It is a small group, it is one group, it is the group with the most concentrated power (in the parents)—social and financial—in NYC. There aren’t other options.
The guy is brave. If you look at the follow up article in the NY Post, he worries, and is right to worry, that Brearley won’t let his daughter finish out the school year. And where is he to send the girl next? Other private schools won’t take her and NYC public schools are a joke. He retired from the investment business and now runs a chemical business. I hope he doesn’t need the money because he’s liable to be subject to a boycott.
Brave.
Art Deco, do you live in Manhattan? I do and my daughter went to an elite private school there. If you added up the student populations of every K-12 private school, you’d get a total number akin to one single large suburban high school.
No, you wouldn’t. There are 56,000,000 school-age youth in the United States. About 9% attend private schools and (in an ordinary year) about 3.5% are homeschooled. About 10% of the slots in the junior class and 25% in the senior class will be unoccupied because students have dropped out. There are 19,000 school districts in the United States. Senior high schools may encompass 3, 4, or 6 grades. You can expect shy of 800 students to be enrolled in the senior high school of a typical district, of whom a certain number will be off-site in special education programs and voTech programs. Given that north of 40% will be enrolled in exurban, small town, and rural districts with modest enrollments (the local small town school where I once lived had about 420 students in the senior grades ca. 2003), you can add about 1/3 to that mean, or just shy of 1,100 students for the typical metropolitan high school. Core cities have larger enrollments, but these are typically distributed over a multiplicity of high schools (nine in the town I grew up in), whereas suburban districts have 1 or 2. So, 1,100 students in your suburban high school would be about normal. The Dalton School enrolls 1,300 youngsters at all grade levels. The Brearley School enrolls 700. In my home town, there have been two private academies which had some durability outside the ken of the Catholic diocese and religious orders. Their combined enrollment fluctuates but is generally about 900. The suburban school district in which they are located enrolls about 1,100 at its high school.
he worries, and is right to worry, that Brearley won’t let his daughter finish out the school year. And where is he to send the girl next? Other private schools won’t take her
I’m sure they’ll relish a breach-of-contract suit from a quondam I-banker who runs a chemical company.
Some will take her, some won’t. This man is paying $54,000 a year. He has options.
Art Deco; sample size n = 1 has all the stats about teaching, preaching, courage or lack, and whatever. He is the one source of answers to all situations, but somehow problems persist and proliferate. It might vex lesser man.
If he was king of this forest all would be well, for he certainly has a brain and a heart.
The intimidation is real.
The hate is real.
The threats are real.
The ostracism is real.
It takes a great deal of courage to stand against that juggernaut.
Maybe it shouldn’t.
But it does.
No doubt it will force people to seek out like-minded, decent, open colleagues and friends and group together—in “sane” ad hoc collectives—for a whole number of reasons: their kids’ education, their own and their families’ well-being. Their kids’ futures. Their community. Their country…
Strength in numbers.
No doubt, some (or many) will decide that the only viable option is to decamp. It’s already happening….
Related – The latest from Stanford University:
https://www.thecollegefix.com/stanford-students-told-they-better-not-agree-with-j-k-rowling-on-trans-issues/
H/T/ Instapundit
File under: Make America Liveable/Decent/Sane Again?
Related:
https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/444819/
Absolutely insane…
…but just when you thought things just couldn’t get any crazier it seems that Lori Lightfoot has been caught flat-footed (not sure one can say “red-handed” anymore… well, maybe “in flagrante”…):
https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/444830/
Yes, that Lori Lightfoot…. And here she is! appropriating (and I don’t use that word lightly) a superhero advertising Clorox (no doubt to bleach out all those “damned spots”…never mind whether it’s right and proper these days for a Black woman—a powerful Black woman at that—to advertise bleach…)
https://www.bnd.com/news/state/illinois/article246720331.html
She really oughta try lye, but even that probably won’t work.
It takes a great deal of courage to stand against that juggernaut. Maybe it shoudn’t. But it does
No, it requires you, in your bedroom, not be afraid of the dark.
Related – The latest from Stanford University:
Mr. Meyer should have included the names of the students who composed that idiot confession and the names of the students who recited it, so other students know who to laugh at. If the young who registered for the Harry Potter House had a sense of the ridiculous, the apparatchiki reciting the statement would see a forest of this when they were done.
https://media.istockphoto.com/photos/woman-gives-loser-l-hand-sign-picture-id174812865?k=6&m=174812865&s=170667a&w=0&h=JMj7GvC8SXPuelwXhuubfSvaS2a0cI7TLTdjatrHlis=
OK, well then let’s hope Mr. Gutmann has the courage to continue to stand up to the mob.
Let’s hope we all do….
Me: “Yet I too expect that fear of retribution will keep almost all silent.”
Art+Deco: “They’re customers. They’re not afraid of retribution. The people paying full freight are people who can afford lawyers and some of them are people-that-know-people.”
You’re confusing economics with social interaction. Imagining that the majority are lions, rather than hyenas. Gutmann is a lion surrounded by hyenas. Which only attack when vastly stronger.
Ignoring the fact that the lawyers would contend against each other before a ‘woke’ judge. Before such a judge, having all the facts on your side is irrelevant… aka ‘judge’ Sullivan.
Who they know is opposed by who Brearley knows… Manhattan’s elite from the mayor on down is overwhelmingly ‘woke’. Thus the vast amount of those ‘who count’ are on Brearley’s side.
No offense but your emotional intelligence is not on par with your intellectual acumen. Put more colloquially, you’re the opposite of S.C. Judge Oliver Wendell Holmes’ assessment of FDR “A second-class intellect. But a first-class temperament.”
You have a first-class intellect and a second class temperament. It is your less than finely tuned temperament that leads to your dismissal of other’s assessments of what Gutmann’s silent supporters face if they state that support openly.
‘Temperament’ being ‘getting’ people’s nature and their motivations. Which IMO, makes your assessment of Gutmann’s actions and situation remarkably naive.
And it looks like Mad Max is trying to show “The Squad” how it’s done:
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/get-more-confrontational-maxine-waters-crosses-state-lines-incite-blm-protesters
Personally, I think she’s a bit peeved that Patrisse Cullors was able to buy such an amazing house and is, to boot, stealing so much of the limelight…so this is one way for her to get back on page 1. (On the other hand, maybe she’s genuinely interested in causing mayhem, chaos and carnage. After all, she does have her principles…)
FWIW, to help the honorable Congresswoman (though YMMV) regain some of her well-earned reputation, I feel obligated to repost this gem:
https://grabien.com/story.php?id=852
Ignoring the fact that the lawyers would contend against each other before a ‘woke’ judge. Before such a judge, having all the facts on your side is irrelevant… aka ‘judge’ Sullivan.
See the commentary of blawgers on Judge Sullivan. He’s peculiarly awful.
Manhattan’s elite from the mayor on down is overwhelmingly ‘woke’. Thus the vast amount of those ‘who count’ are on Brearley’s side.
The mayor wouldn’t be given the time of day by people like James Dimon and Michael Bloomberg if he weren’t the mayor. He has no real techna. He’s a lifelong patronage leech. (His wife had about 15 years as a magazine writer before attaching herself, like a remora, to a succession of pols).
You have a first-class intellect and a second class temperament.
I don’t have a first class intellect and my temperament is purely melancholic. No, I’m not a 1st class melancholic. If I had been, I’d have made a good living as an accountant or actuary.
G+B I’d give Art some slack. You’re explaining external factors, but not presuming those exposed to same might either go ahead anyway with whatever, or would find workarounds.
Last fall ,when all schools in our state were closed, my son and his wife, having some extra space, fixed up a “classroom” with power cords, chairs, desks, made some other arrangements and set up a learning pod for our two granddaughters and three or four neighbor kids. And hired a tech-savvy young lady to run the thing while they followed the school’s distance learning efforts.
That worked until somebody got a…turned out to be false…Covid test and the whole thing had to be shut down.
My son and his wife are comfortable, if you include harsh work ethics and some good luck, as are their neighbors.
Point is, their expense was the young woman who was in charge of the thing. She was not making a grand a week. Not. And whatever it amounted to was shared between several families.
Next point is that, keeping NYC cost of living in mind, two students’ $54K allowance apiece could get you a pretty good teacher/student ratio Maybe you’d need four kids.
Remembering my own college and high school, I suspect that science classes could be taught by somebody who had the same in college for “non-majors”. You’d probably want a good math background to teach math past maybe eighth grade.
That would be the minimum and I imagine you could do better if you had, say, six kids.
That way, you avoid CRT and white fragility and whatnot, leaving more time for actual education.
What remains is the transcript for college admits…. SAT, ACT, so forth should be good.
Phonics, of course.
Call it “homeschooling” instead of solid-gold education like nobody ever had. No sense causing envy,
AesopFan, I gave up Penzey’s Spices four years ago, when Bill Penzey made it clear he didn’t want conservative customers. The old family business, now run by his sister, is The Spice House, and provides very good quality spices and no politics.
Barry Meislin, I’m watching the news for anything about Mayor Lightfoot. Her wife is more than a head taller than she, and one report said the wife beat up the Mayor when she learned about the infidelity. They have a daughter who witnessed the fight, reportedly. Many conservatives are asking why Lightfoot would resign over this, rather than over the public outrages and missteps in Chicago in the past couple of years.
Richard Aubrey, parents in my area have been setting up neighborhood pods. There are some really good-quality online homeschooling programs available these days. Public school enrollment is down 10% and may decline further.
“No offense but your emotional intelligence is not on par with your intellectual acumen.”
I second Geoffrey Britain’s observation, but I don’t think it’s naivety. It’s an incessant stubbornness to push a narrative, digging deeper and deeper into often irrelevant statistics, rather than examining his viewpoint against other’s statements, opinions and information.
digging deeper and deeper into often irrelevant statistics,
Mr. smythic made a contention about the enrollment of these schools that is not true. The statistics are quite relevant in assessing his contention.
Art, look up “often” it isn’t the same as “always.” But you know that.
Art, my kids’ high school in suburban Houston has 4,000 students and is one of 9 schools of similar size in our district. There are a few very exclusive private schools in Houston which every mover-and-shaker’s kids attend. If you didn’t go to Kincaid (e.g.), you’re clearly nobody. (We’re nobody, of course.) I’m not catching your point with the statistics.
Houston is the third largest metro area in the country and I assure you that all the movers and shakers run in the same circles; we are adjacent to (but not at all part of) those circles, sufficiently aware of who’s in them to make this claim.
Your comment about important New Yorkers’ not giving the mayor the time of day if he weren’t mayor is puzzling; he IS mayor. What would happen if he weren’t doesn’t matter.
Again, verily I say unto thee, I think I get your point – that it SHOULDN’T be hard to deprive the woke of their power since it relies on society’s acquiescence. But the woke are the Establishment at present. A tipping point of resistance must be reached before it’s cost-free to defy them. Everybody here had been talking about the cost to educate a child via governess – but the important thing is how that child gets into the (very woke) universities that provide the shibboleths that open the gates of success to her. Being homeschooled, especially when you’re homeschooled for some reason that cuts your parents off from their former social circle (which includes people who can provide references or have alumni connections), isn’t going to cut it.
It’s not cost-free at present, no matter how many times you insist that it is. Maybe if enough people in the movers and shakers groups get fed up enough to resist, it will become so – after all, the anti-establishment left of the ’60s “made it” – but we’re not there yet.
Art,
Blogger’s commentary on Judge Sullivan is as irrelevant as yours and mine. Nor is he that unusual, just a higher profile case. Plenty of judges have demonstrated their contempt for the Constitution.
I stated, “Manhattan’s elite from the mayor on down is overwhelmingly ‘woke’.” Since the mayor is at the top of NYC’s political establishment, I included him but it’s the elite in the aggregate that is the issue. Less obtuseness please.
I accept your assessment of your intellect and would point out that when it comes to accurately assessing people’s nature and motivations that a “melancholy temperament” is as biased as an overly optimistic one. The glass is neither solely half empty nor half full. It is both. Intellect + a balanced emotional perspective is needed for accurate assessment of people’s nature and motivations. That leads to a higher degree of accuracy in predicting people’s actions than otherwise.
Richard Aubrey,
I am giving Art some slack. As for what parents who share Gutmann’s perspective might do, I’d bet that some will indeed find alternatives but very few, if any will join Gutmann. I base that upon their lack of action after having talked with Gutmann. Since Gutmann wrote his letter, we know of none that have written a similar letter who share his POV. Given that their children’s futures are literally on the line, a prompt response to Gutmann is the least they could do. Perhaps that will change but currently we have nothing but silence.
Art Deco,
You’ve had several commenters who have given specific information about cities and school districts they are personally familiar with, yet you are certain you are better informed because you pulled a number from a page in an almanac on a shelf 1,000+ miles away from where they live.
Amy gave a specific example from her congregation, a rural congregation, and you pulled some numbers from a website and told her she’s wrong. About a congregation you’ve never set foot in. I don’t know Amy’s circumstance either, but I can empathize that it may sometimes be difficult to change ministers in a rural parish.
Another thing completely glossed over by those focusing on pure data is the often major trauma to a child from changing schools (or, ministers or parishes to piggy back on other themes). Depending on the age of a child and how many bonds she or he has formed with classmates, changing schools can be extremely traumatic; depression inducing.
You’ve had several commenters who have given specific information about cities and school districts they are personally familiar with,
The person who made a discrete and verifiable contention was Mr. smythic, and he’s clearly wrong, for the reasons stated.
Houston is the third largest metro area in the country and I assure you that all the movers and shakers run in the same circles; we are adjacent to (but not at all part of) those circles, sufficiently aware of who’s in them to make this claim.
A metropolitan region with a population like New York’s is going to have roughly 170,000 patrician households in it. In re greater Houston, you’re looking at perhaps 50,000. The notion that all these people know each other and stop associating with Mr. X is a tough one to credit.
You all like anecdotes. Here’s one from Andrew Ross Sorkin in his book Too Big to Fail. It was an account of the discussions between various parties about the proposed rescue of AIG, among them (IIRC) Dr. Bernanke, Timothy Geithner, Henry Paulson, &c. The name of Edward Liddy was floated as someone who might take over as President of AIG under the rescue plan (as he eventually did). The name was relayed to Robert Willumstad, the incumbent President of AIG, who professed to have never heard of Edward Liddy (per Sorkin’s source, who may have been passing on nonsense). Liddy had been the President of Allstate. Here are two movers and shakers in the insurance business and they’re not acquainted. At all.
changing schools can be extremely traumatic; depression inducing
Yes, it can. Changing schools is also common as dirt due to the vicissitudes of life. What you gonna do?
Amy gave a specific example from her congregation, a rural congregation, and you pulled some numbers from a website and told her she’s wrong.
I never pulled out any numbers in response to her and I did not tell her she was wrong. You want to reprove me, at least read what I say.
I gave up Penzey’s Spices four years ago, when Bill Penzey made it clear he didn’t want conservative customers.
IIRC, he offered this animadversion on an e-mail listserv to which Penzey’s customers subscribe. It was quite stupefying. Penzey’s is still in business, for whatever reason.
Well Kate, Chicago’s due for a real humdinger of a barnburner. (The last one was in 1871—and, no, I don’t believe 1968 really counts.)
But let’s hope that this time ’round the only casualties are those who bust a gut ROFL….though, of course, this is no laughing matter. (Well, um, maybe it is, actually, but it really shouldn’t be, nossir.)
And no matter what happens down the road, one might consider giving Herronor the benefit of the doubt—after all, she’s innocent until proven guilty (IOW, she’s not a Republican)—and conclude that whatever she did or didn’t do, it was all for the sake of the city she loves, for the city she sweated bullets for: for the sake of Chicago….
But Barry, if anything happens to the Art Institute or the Shedd especially, I’ll take it personal.
I share your deep concern; nonetheless, I wouldn’t worry overly about Shedd Aquarium burning down (when was the last time that happened to an aquarium?). Regarding the AI, they may just have to bite the bullet and put on a permanent “blockbuster” show featuring Basquiat…. add some BLM members to the board of directors and, “behind the tapestries”, help fund some prime real estate “acquisitions” for the latter’s “families”….
I base that upon their lack of action after having talked with Gutmann.
Gutmann sent the letter to parents on 13 April and it was posted on Bari Weiss’ Substack on 16 April. You’re mighty impatient.
Barry Meislin, Mayor Lightfoot says these are just nasty internet rumors and she’s not resigning. Since she’s a leftist, and a minority, this scandal will go away.
No doubt her city needs her….
Just as NY State needs Cuomo really badly…. Who else could possibly craft a policy that so effectively frees up space in some of the state’s overcrowded senior citizens’ homes….?
(With Whitmer able to make the same claim in Michigan….)
Competence, Democratic Party style….
>Robin DiAngelo is a sub-mediocre professor in the teacher-training faculty of an ordinary state college.
Say what you want about university Education departments, but I’d hardly call University of Washington “an ordinary state college.” It’s one of the better public universities in the country, considered a “public ivy” and is an R1 research university.
GRA:
Shame! Shame! You dare question Art Data? 🙂
Kudos to Mr. Guttman.
Whether he knows it or not, he is fighting for his daughter’s soul.
Two stories come together. – Headlines summarize the story.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9484443/Math-teacher-defends-father-pulled-daughter-Brearley-School.html
‘Parents have moral duty to protect kids from psychological abuse’: NY teacher who accused his private school of ‘indoctrinating’ students with anti-racism ideology defends dad who pulled daughter from ‘woke weaning’ $54k Brearley School
Grace Church School teacher Paul Rossi says he commends Andrew Gutmann’s decision to not to reenroll his daughter at the $54,000 a year Brearley School
Rossi had on Friday revealed that he will have to teach remotely rather than return to his classroom at his elite $57,000-per-year prep school Monday
That followed comments accusing the school of ‘indoctrinating’ students with ‘anti-racism’ ideology that he says induces shame in white students
He added of Gutmann’s case: ‘Parents have a moral duty to protect their children from psychological abuse, and I commend any who choose the harder road’
* * *
As usual, the Mail has details sometimes missed by other outlets.
“The school had started the required pledge after black alumnae accused the school of racism in posts made to the Instagram account account ‘Black at Brearley,’ according to the Washington Free Beacon.”
“It was not immediately clear how Gutmann managed to receive the home addresses of the 650 families to home (whom) he sent the letters.”
And pictures.
Barry Meislin wrote, “And no matter what happens down the road, one might consider giving Herronor the benefit of the doubt—after all, she’s innocent until proven guilty (IOW, she’s not a Republican)—and conclude that whatever she did or didn’t do, it was all for the sake of the city she loves, for the city she sweated bullets for: for the sake of Chicago….”
I liked that a lot — so much that I messed with it:
… and conclude, that whatever she did, or didn’t do, it was all, for the sake of the city she loves, and loves and loves and loves: for the sake of Chicago….
(I’ll be here all week. Try the borscht. And, remember to tip the wait-staff.)
AesopFan:
The Daily Mail, is that what they used to call “journalism, or the press?” It is very rare in this country now a days. What is its purpose, I wonder? 🙂
Epoch Times does journalism too, as well as NY Post, but few others IMO.
Thank you for posting it!
Say what you want about university Education departments, but I’d hardly call University of Washington “an ordinary state college.” It’s one of the better public universities in the country, considered a “public ivy” and is an R1 research university.
Her career has been spent at the state college in Westfield, Massachusetts (in greater Springfield). If UW has hired her, it’s quite recent.
And what’s salient is that the teacher-training faculty at Westfield (like a number of others) is a jobs program for political sectaries. Nothing in her publication record suggests she knows anything about tests-and-measurements psychology or about practical teaching techniques. These (and the supervision of interns and apprentices) are the only legitimate subjects of teacher training programs.
I think that the emphasis on the term “brave” , while mystifying some of us initially, eventually reveals, or perhaps comfirms, a couple of things we either did not fully grasp, or only suspected.
Perhaps we in flyover country simply never gave it, or them, any sustained thought: just exasperatedly asking ” What the hell is going on with these people?”, and then throwing up our hands and hoping for an answer to drop down out of the sky. At least that would be a fair criticism in my case.
But really. Who cared what a bunch of preenimg narrow shouldered assholes in Manhattan or Connecticut did? They did not have a controlling effect on our lives …. until now ….
The first point:
1, The absolute, desperate, and dire emotional depth of the referenced population’s need to “belong”.
It should not have been a mysterious or particularly obscure need to those of us outside, as the entire moral language of the “woke” and modern liberalism in general is about little else that a seemingly termite-like drive to merge with the swarm. And, on an intellectual or purely observational level it was not an invisible trait.
Most of the mystery, was as to “Why?”
Second: the “why”.
2, It is only recently as the effects of the behavior of this population on the rest of us have become unavoidable as a result of their striving for a totalitarian dominance in all aspects of economic and cultural life, that the rationale for their own seemingly Borg-like drive has become clearer. It is how their own lives and success have been made and sustained generation by generation
Outside of the circle, is for them, only a frightening world of insecurity where there are no greased paths or inside tracks to economic success and social acceptance.
Those of us who grew up outside the range of the Eastern Seaboard elite’s dominance never noticed – or fully appreciated –
the cash value of a prep school and Ivy league ticket.
It has only been in the last 20 years as manufacturing was deliberately off-shored and finance became the dynamic part of the economy, that the implications of their model for everyone else became clear.
They are cowards because they know better than the rest of us, what the implications of losing insider status in a rigged game, might be for those who are shunned, and for their children. Their participation in, and benefitting from an essentially self-serving system, has morally enervated them and saddled them with guilt feelings and a fear of loss of rank and status which makes them almost immobile.
They are indicted by their own consciences, and hostage to their own ego demands and pride of place.
Well, too effen bad …
Man up or die. It is what everyone else is faced with.
Art Data didn’t do his homework. DNW can’t fathom that courage can come in more than one manifestation or may be found on the shores of this country even among the hoity toity.
@ Art: Dismissing either the real or perceived lack of quality of her current institution is really neither here nor there. But if we do take it into account, you can’t ignore she’s succeeding in pushing her narrative in spite of it; it seems she truly believes in what she’s pushing. It doesn’t matter if she’s tenured at Southeast State Cow University surrounded by soy beans where the locals only have a high school education, and where there’s a Super Walmart for all your daily essentials. Why? Because she’s now seen as a leading expert in a relatively Woke field on a topic that is sweeping the nation, if not the Western world.
You’re focusing too much on her lack of quality academic papers in peer-reviewed journals and not enough on what she promotes on her personal page. If one can’t gain respect by being published in academic journals then the other route is writing a book.
Face it: She’s at the forefront of whatever movement you call this and is seen as one of the main driving forces behind it. School boards at the elementary level are using her book as a starting off point. Even if we think her concepts and ideas are absolute trash, DiAngelo’s ideas are being accepted in her field AND are being practiced. She’s influencing the people she wants to influence. That’s what every faculty member in any field wants. Places like Harvard Graduate School of Education, Columbia Teacher’s College and Stanford GSE – departments that heavily influence the field of education on their respective coasts – may be making room for her on their faculty list in the upcoming years. Her stock has risen exponentially – as an (pop) academic and as a social activist. She’s the Karl Marx of white-black race relations and academia is loving it.
The question at issue Om, is as to precisely why standing up for the truth, or for one’s own liberty in such a cossetted environment, requires, or deserves be called ” bravery”, in the first place.
If you point to the cost, another is entitled to ask how it is that that cost became so existentially significant, either in perception or in reaity; and, to ask, what if any role the now dissenters’ [speaking in terms of a cohort, here] own previous complicity may have served in bringing about such a supposedly fraught situation in the first place.
By the way: If someone in early middle age has half a million to casually drop on 5 years each of private school for a couple of grade school aged daughters or sons, the potential consequences for him of speaking up like a man, are probably less devastating than the average heroic figure suffers.
That said, the author did let them have it in no uncertain terms.
For that, he deserves our appreciation and applause. Maybe, even acclaim.
The question is as to whether it must be accounted as courageous. And if so, why?
It has only been in the last 20 years as manufacturing was deliberately off-shored and finance became the dynamic part of the economy, that the implications of their model for everyone else became clear.
Last time I checked, the share of value-added in our economy attributable to the insurance business has hardly changed during the post-war period. That attributable to real estate hit a plateau around about 1985. That attributable to finance hit a plateau around 1998.
Face it: She’s at the forefront of whatever movement you call this and is seen as one of the main driving forces behind it. School boards at the elementary level are using her book as a starting off point. Even if we think her concepts and ideas are absolute trash, DiAngelo’s ideas are being accepted in her field AND are being practiced.
Something Thomas Sowell told you in Inside American Education. Teacher training faculties are hot-beds of faddish intellectual rubbish. Our problem (cue MBunge here) is that Republican state legislators have been too otiose and unimaginative to do the obvious: close the state teacher’s colleges. Put them all out on the curb.
“…otiose and unimaginative…”
How long do you think any politician would remain in office after closing the state teacher’s colleges?! The headlines practically write themselves. And you don’t think the teachers’ unions would have thousands of picketers on the line within 1/2 hour of any politician even uttering the thought? Lightfoot and Cuomo, prominent Dem politicians, can’t even get k-12 teachers to do classroom instruction* despite mountains of data showing there is almost no risk to them or their charges.
Solutions have to be viable to be viable solutions.
*Before you run off to your magical, contrarian, internet search machine; I know today is the day Chicago teachers supposedly go back to in class teaching, but it’s way too little way too late. And as evidenced by rumors circulating this past week, her job is very much in jeopardy.
GRA,
After the Beer Hall Putsch Art Deco would be arguing, “Nobody is listening to that Adolph guy because he was turned down by the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts, a low quality institution in a Bavarian backwater.”
What influence does Oprah have? Has she ever been published in an academic journal? How about Joel Osteen? College dropout attempting to major in radio and TV. No chance of him having any influence.
Who you gon’na believe? Your lying eyes or “The World Almanac and Book of Facts?”
And Minnesota finally gets lucky…for a change.
https://www.blazingcatfur.ca/2021/04/19/blm-protesters-rally-for-victim-leave-after-learning-he-was-white-carjacker/
https://nypost.com/2021/04/19/blm-protesters-rally-for-victim-leave-after-learning-he-was-white-carjacker/?utm_medium=SocialFlow&utm_source=NYPTwitter&utm_campaign=SocialFlow
Not sure how long that luck will last, though.
Minnesota, cont.:
https://spectator.org/minneapolis-daunte-wright-riots-racial-justice/
H/T Blazingcatfur blog.
Related: “Deeply offensive and hurtful”….
https://nypost.com/2021/04/19/author-says-woke-culture-infecting-our-schools-amid-dads-viral-letter/
Key grafs:
“ ‘We have also sacrificed the idea of excellence and when we have gotten rid of excellence, I think our schools are going down the tubes’….
” ‘And in my opinion what we are seeing from a lot of these schools is actually downright illegal!’ — and called on more parents to ‘stand their ground’ on growing ‘woke culture’ in schools….
“Jane Fried, Brearley’s head of school, said in a message to the families that Gutmann’s letter was ‘deeply offensive and harmful.’ ”
…as the “Biden” / Psaki circus continues:
https://nypost.com/2021/04/19/psaki-walks-back-biden-calling-youth-border-surge-a-crisis/
To be fair, it should have been perfectly clear to all and sundry that “Biden” never meant it.
(Does “he” ever? E.g.:
https://nypost.com/2021/04/19/white-house-distances-itself-from-maxine-waters-comments/ )
Rule of thumb: The Democrats and their Media enablers are playing with your heads…as they merrily continue on their path of destruction….
Megyn Kelly fires a shot across the bow of Brearley head knocker.
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2021/04/19/megyn-kelly-warns-school-administrators-you-too-could-get-fired-for-pushing-radical-racial-agenda-n364230
Think she is saying. WE pay your salary. WE can fire you.
The Dalton head is leaving in 8 months*; I don’t call that “being fired.”
https://nypost.com/2021/04/16/head-of-nycs-posh-dalton-school-to-leave-at-end-of-2021/
This is the guy that was “fired.”
“The school’s former head of diversity, Domonic Rollins, left in February in the wake of that firestorm.”
*It could be sloppy reporting, meaning the end of the 2020-2021 school year, but that’s still a resignation, not a termination.
The Dalton head is leaving in 8 months*;
I think it’s the end of the academic year.
I don’t call that “being fired.”
Faculty and administrators commonly have one semester, annual, or multi-year contracts. Being frog marched off the campus on Friday afternoon by a security guard with your office gewgaws in a cardboard box is what happens to staff (salaried and hourly).
but that’s still a resignation, not a termination.
He didn’t have a choice, It’s a termination.
After the Beer Hall Putsch Art Deco would be arguing, “Nobody is listening to that Adolph guy because he was turned down by the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts, a low quality institution in a Bavarian backwater.”
No, I wouldn’t be arguing with that and I’m not arguing with that now. I’m pointing out what a fraud her career is and how shallow and silly are the people paying her speaking fees. Ditto Ibram X Kendi.
Face it: She’s at the forefront of whatever movement you call this and is seen as one of the main driving forces behind it.
Pus isn’t a driving force.
Art+Deco on April 19, 2021 at 12:25 pm said:
– I’m not sure we are referring to the same phenomenon as it relates to the context of perceived comparable alternate economic opportunities for would-be Manhattan elites should they suffer “ostracism”.
– Nor, do I have a precise notion of what you mean by a value added share to the economy; as opposed to, say, an escalating cost of financial intermediation and the rising rewards for the intermediaries, or the relative contribution of finance to the GDP, and what this implies for those in the field who are fearful of being labeled damaged political goods.
In any event, instead of searching my computer files for old downloads I’ll just present a few links that outline what I take to be the general context – and which you apparently see as a misinterpretation of the social frame – and then, if there is any reason to bother we can try and clarify further from there.
A left of center outline with some reasonable observations … https://theglobepost.com/2019/12/11/financialization-us-economy/
Another link from Investopedia
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/financialization.asp
Whether this figure above is actually at odds with the nominal figure you posted is something that I suspect would have to be definitionally parsed out …