School officials said the head of diversity at the Ton Dalton School – the controversy over the Upper East Side privilege that has recently been clouded by controversies over its heavy-handed “anti-racist” ideology.
On Friday, the school said that Dominic Rollins, the director of DEI (“Diversity, Equality and Inclusion”), is leaving the school.
Rollins joined Dalton from Harvard University in July 2019, where he served as a Strategist and Advisor in the President’s Office on Diversity, Inclusion and Related, and as a Senior Diversity and Inclusion Officer at Harvard Graduate School of Education.
The final few months of Rollins’ tenure were marked by aggressive new moves from Dalton’s headmaster Jim Best to ensure the school would be more “anti-racist”.
But the confrontation over the anti-racism issue in Dalton – which counts Anderson Cooper, Christian Slater and Claire Daines as alumni – erupted publicly in December when the school’s administration and faculty completed staffing, courses and syllabi Issued eight pages of “proposals” to. Treatment of Black Students.
School parents and alumni fired an open letter last month rejecting the school’s new race-obsession agenda.
The anonymous missile to the “Dalton community”, obtained by the post, accuses the “love of learning and teaching, which is now being abandoned in favor of an ‘anti-caste’ curriculum.”
In the face of criticism, a guardian felt James Best to be the head of the school, making Rawlins a scapegoat.
“Looks like Rollins was Jim Best’s falling man,” a Dalton parent told the Post. “Older white men are staying and black men are leaving.”
Rawlins “unfairly harassed a lot of people, including some longtime and supportive Dalton families,” The Naked Dollar Blog reported on Saturday.
The blogger claims that one parent described Rawlins as “a complete dismissal of people not of color.”
The 89th Street institution educated 1,300 students in grades K-12, charging $ 54,180 per year in tuition. It is more diverse than most of NYC’s elite schools, with a student body of 57 percent white, 19 percent multi-racial, 11 percent Asian, 10 percent black, and 3 percent Hispanic.
Neither Rollins nor Best could be immediately reached for comment.
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