Until last summer, Harvey Goldman had no idea that his 9-year-old daughter was learning about George Floyd’s death and Black Lives Matter, as well as her own “white privilege” at a $ 43,000-a-year Hessel school in Manhattan .
He is now part of an underground network of parents in NYC and across the country, many of whom are left-leaning, fighting, saying they believe the race by schools as part of the new “wake” culture It is unfair to focus on.
Many are reluctant to publicly identify themselves for fear of being labeled racist. But more is unfolding after Andrew Gutman, the father of a 12-year-old girl at Manhattan’s posh Briarley School, wrote a sinister screw to administrators about his “anti-racism” obsession and went public in The Post last week went.
Swarnakar, a businessman, was surprised by the negative and unfair “anti-racist” dogma, stating that he was aimed at fourth-graders and his classmates. But when he arrived at the school with his concerns, administrators were “arrogant and dismissive”, he told The Post.
He then sent a letter to the school.
Goldman wrote last September, “First and foremost, neither I nor my child have ‘white privileges’, nor do we need to apologize for it.” “I am insulting you.” My 9-year-old suggests that he does child abuse, not education. “
In response, the school suggested Goldman to take his daughter out of school, he said. So he did. The family moved to Florida where her daughter is enrolled in a public school that she had already worked with to ensure that critical race theory (CRT) was not part of the curriculum.
Heschel administrators did not respond to messages from The Post.
The CRT is a controversial prescription to address racial issues centered around the idea of ”white privilege”. It originated in universities and spread to K-12 schools – both public and private. Its high priest, many parents say, is an anti-racist scholar Ibram x. Candy, author of “How to be anti caste“
Although the Trump administration banned the use of federal money for CRT training sessions for US agency workers, the Biden White House last week decided to use taxpayer money to encourage schools to include it in classrooms Proposed
“My mother said that everyone should talk about this – but when I said I was leaving, she said, ‘I didn’t mean that You, ” Goldman said, half a joke. “But I understand her concerns and I her too. These private schools are very powerful and they talk to each other. They want you to toe the line and do as you told. “
Many parents, such as Goldman and Beyoncé Barting, whose children were enrolled at the $ 54,000-a-year Riverdale Country School, flew into the air after Minneapolis cop Derek Chauvin was killed in police custody or when Floyd was killed in police custody He heard evidence about it during his children’s zoom classes.
Barting was upset by the division and loss caused by the children as a new result of Riverdale. “Conservative” About the race that he took his children out of school.
Last month they formed Foundation against Intolerance and Racism (FAIR) To counter CRT in schools and promote a “pro-human” agenda. More than 20,000 people have already joined, Barting told the Post.
Barting, who is Mexican and Yaki on the one hand and Jewish on the other, said he was particularly disappointed by how Riverdale and school children across the country were forced to label themselves based on the color of their skin We do. Sometimes a palette is also given to children and made to choose the color that best suits their skin.
“I don’t fit into any of those race buckets,” Bartening told the Post. “I think it is wrong to teach children these socially constructed race categories. It is a destructive ideology, teaching children to be pessimistic and full of grievances rather than being optimistic and full of gratitude. This is against all the values I was raised with, and there are many who feel like me. It is a movement with a lot of people. “
In New York City, anonymous open letters complaining about critical race theory and prejudice training have been sent in recent weeks to administrators at such elite institutions as the $ 55,000-a-year Dalton School and the Jesuit Regis High School.
Earlier this month, a math teacher from the exclusive Grace Church in Manhattan published Open letter About what he called “harmful” racism and pedagogy at school. He was later asked to stay home.
The “underground” network has also spread to public schools. Two Manhattan mothers who raise children in city schools lead the NYC chapter of FAIR and speak like Gutman to encourage others.
Maud Maron, A public protector with four children in local public schools, who is also running for city council, said he first ran for five years before the so-called racist ideology as part of his work at the Community Education Council.
“, The Post reported that” it’s a really divisive, ugly conservative and it’s a multi-million dollar industry. “It’s very insidious because on the face of it, who doesn’t want to sign up to be less racist?”
Maron, who said his children are in contact with the CRT in their public schools, said the ideology must have started with some good intentions, but now it is more like a cult. If you don’t go with them, they think you’re bad. But people should know that you can survive even when you speak outside. Stand your ground and say what you believe. Do not apologize for simple truths. “
The co-chair of the marathon is 53-year-old Yayatin Chu, co-chair of Place NYC, an education advocacy group and an immigrant from Taiwan who arrived in the US at the age of 8. The oldest of his two children is out of college and never encountered CRT in school, Chu said. Her youngest, Mandarin school of 10 years, is at PS 184, one of the few public schools in NYC where many of the anti-racism courses fall into place.
But Chu said he is responsible for speaking out against CRT as an activist.
“I’ve been called a ‘Karen’ and they have tried to pressure me not to talk,” Chu Post said. “It can be very stressful physically, emotionally and mentally. It feels like a mob is descending on you and calls you a racist for fighting for the kind of education you want for all children. it’s really bad. I have seen that it is ruining life. “
A guardian from Riverdale told The Post that she would only go public when she decided to take her children out of school.
“It’s terrible what’s going on there,” he said. “Fourth graders learned about astronauts and inventors – but only black ones. They no longer know about Thomas Edison. The math course is a joke; they’ve dropped it down. No more birthdays are allowed Nor is any holiday allowed. They participated with Columbus Day but now they celebrate the end of Ramadan and the Chinese lunar year. “
Podcaster Megan Kelly After her sons were taken out of posh collegiate last November, a letter allegedly accused the whites of “walking into state-sanctioned gravity” and comparing white children to “killer cops” .
But now, two parents told The Post, collegiate administrators are listening to families in school troubled by ideology.
The mother of a collegiate student said she does not want to use her name because she still loves school and hopes “things can improve from the inside.”
“We are not stoners,” he said. “We are part of the silent majority – so far – I hope that can save these schools from walking the wrong path.”
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