“It obliges us to look at each other based on unchanging characteristics, such as skin color, gender, or sexual orientation,” parents say about the anti-racism course
In recent weeks, parents sending their children to prestigious private schools in New York have protested new anti-racism courses introduced by several educational institutions in response to last year’s death of African-American George Floyd. Parents complain that teachers force children to look at themselves through characteristics such as skin color, gender, or sexual orientation often while promoting that all Whites are privileged.
Parents’ dissatisfaction was first voiced in late April in an open letter from one man, Andrew Guttman, who condemed “a new obsessive focus on race and identity” at Brearley School, one of the best private schools in New York.
Guttman said the all-girls private academy was “trying to make her feel guilty” about her “skin color.”
Shortly afterward, a father whose daughter attended another prestigious school in Manhattan joined the initiative, announcing that he would no longer send her there.
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