They say nonstop that they are all about inclusion. But they are by definition exclusive. Power in America now comes from speaking woke, a highly complex and ever-evolving language. Robert M. As part of our Episcopal identity, we recognize the dignity and worth common to humanity. I use [ she her ] pronouns but also feel comfortable using [ they them ] pronouns.
Fluency in woke is an effective class marker and key for these princelings to retain status in university and beyond. The thinking is: if Harvard does it, it must be good. He is not politically conservative. But it was in a mutated form.
This teacher is talking with me because he is alarmed by the toll this ideology is taking on his students. They are being educated in resentment and fear. Three thousand miles away, in Los Angeles, another prep-school teacher says something similar. They think they are suffering oppression at one of the poshest schools in the country. It seems to be working. Why do you feel oppressed? What has anyone done to make you feel less?
T he science program at Fieldston would make any parent swoon. But physics looks different these days. We traced different marginalized groups. That was how it was structured. The events of last summer created a call to action for all of us, in our school community and beyond. The times I speak up to defend those they shame, they attempt to shame me. In this worldview, complexity itself is a kind of racism, nuance is a phobia, and skepticism merely a type of false consciousness.
And too often, the more powerful the racism, the more powerful the denial. At the top was genocide. Chapin did not respond to a request for comment. For high schoolers, the message is more explicit. At Harvard-Westlake, the school recently administered the debunked implicit-bias test to tenth-graders.
It was technically optional, but several parents I spoke with said that their children felt compelled to take it. I was so, so angry. A Brentwood parent says that she has tried, in small ways, to stand up to this.
The curriculum, he explained, was trying to teach him to feel obsessed with his whiteness, the opposite of what his parents had taught him to do. Making students separate out by race in affinity groups is racist, he said. Some students are rebelling, which, in this case, looks like becoming a Republican.
Because there is a danger in placing too much emphasis in something that can easily be misinterpreted or overlooked. So, dear Saba, strive to do work that can stand on its own, with no name attached. Invest in your ideas and experiences and knowledge and memories.
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