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/“Elite{“ (expensive) NYC schools expand their indoctrination program to parents
New York City private schools are pushing woke training on parents in a Soviet-like effort to keep their kids on message — with potentially serious consequences for those who don’t fall in line.
At least five elite schools — where yearly tuitions hover around $60,000 — are forcing parents to undergo both mandatory and “optional” training in “anti-racism” and “diversity, equity and inclusion.” The controversial theoriesdemand a hyper-focus on race and privilege and have been accused by critics of demonizing white people.
Prospective parents at The Brearley School, an all-girls school on the Upper East Side, are informed on their application that “parents are expected to attend two diversity, equity, inclusion and antiracism (DEIA) workshops per school year,” and write a 500-word essay demonstrating their fealty to those values.
If their daughters are accepted, parents are then expected to sign a pledge vowing to support the new religion.
“We expect teachers, staff members, students and parents to participate in anti-racist training and to pursue meaningful change through deliberate and measurable actions. These actions include identifying and eliminating policies, practices and beliefs that uphold racial inequality in our community,” it reads, while also enjoining parents to “discuss with your children Brearley’s mission, diversity, equity and inclusion, and anti-racist statements in the student handbooks, and establishing your family’s responsibility to uphold these values.”
At Spence, another Upper East Side all-girls school, parents are “invited” to take part in “Courageous Conversation equity workshop” put on by Pacific Educational Group, a privately held DEI consulting shop based in San Francisco.
On Twitter, PEG has declared “systemic racism” to be “deeply embedded in the fabric of this nation.”
“To become truly anti-racist, it takes abandoning all sense of ego and comfort,” they added elsewhere in their dogma of the faith. The group has blasted as “racist” the NFL, the Nobel Prizes, property taxes, and the confirmation hearing of Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.
“The opportunity to participate in the DEI program offered by PEG is strictly voluntary for parents. These programs do not involve students,” a rep for Spence said.
Here’s how that works:
Earlier this month, the Upper East Side’s Chapin School held a panel discussion for prospective parents to discuss the school’s “ongoing commitment to equity & inclusion, including our newest community-wide initiatives.”
Though the Chapin gathering was declared optional, insiders said it was anything but.“They take attendance, they have name tags, there is someone from the admissions office to keep track of who goes and who doesn’t,” said one mom of her school’s program. “If you don’t go, your child is not going to go very far in the admission process.”
Another mom told The Post that she was told to get with the program after her son commented that boys were physically more capable at sports than girls.
“I [was] talked to” she said, adding she was told her son “had to better understand the values of inclusion at the school and I had to familiarize myself with the values of inclusion at the school and be clear with my child as to what they were so he arrived at school prepared.”
I like this one: “Respect for differing viewpoints is a fundamental commitment of the school,” a Grace spokesman said. Uh-huh.
I don’t know why any parent or alumnus would tolerate this, but I’m not a guilty white Manhattanite. And ocourse, not all is lost: the daughters, if not the sons of these cowed multi-millionaires will go on to find employment at the better of our woke establishments. Here’s a meeting of the Huffington Post’s editorial board, for instance: the girls all look prosperous, happy, and well fed.