Andrew Gutmann, 45, wrote a letter blasting the $54,000-a-year Brearley School over its woke antiracism obsession
He said in that the responses to his letter opened his own eyes to how pervasive and entrenched critical race theory had become in our schools I had no idea how pervasive and entrenched critical race theory had become in our schools, including public and religious schools, Gutman wrote in the Post
Gutmann said the educational problems can t be fixed until we eradicate the insidious cancer that is cancel culture
Gutmann told DailyMail.com in an exclusive interview that he never intended his scathing letter to go viral but now welcomes the controversy he sparked
Jennifer Smith, Daily Mail, April 17, 2021
A father has pulled his daughter out of an exclusive Upper East Side private school in outrage over the school’s extensive anti-racism policies that include training for parents, and which he says are teaching kids to hate their own country.
Andrew Gutmann penned a scathing letter against The Brearley School, an all-girls school in Manhattan where fees are $53,000-a-year, which he sent to more than 600 other parents.
Brearley’s alumni includes Caroline Kennedy, the actress Tea Leoni, Elisabeth Murdoch, Dorothy Schiff and Alice Gore King.
In his letter, Gutmann mapped out what he called Brearley’s ‘critical race theory’ which he said is ‘advocating that Blacks should forever be regarded as helpless victims’.
Andrew Gutmann, 45, wrote a letter blasting the $54,000-a-year Brearley School over its woke antiracism obsession
He said he has chosen not to reenroll his daughter in the all-girls school
Gutmann told DailyMail.com in an exclusive interview that he never intended his scathing letter to go viral but now welcomes the controversy he sparked I wrote the letter for my daughter s school, not for the world, he said. I did this because I m a concerned dad and it felt like it was the right thing to do Most parents are still afraid to speak out given the cancel culture, Gutmann said. That s why I wrote the letter
Someone had to speak out : Father who pulled his daughter from NYC s $53K-a-year Brearley School over its antiracism woke weaning obsession says it s teaching kids what to think - as school slams him for being offensive
Andrew Gutmann, 45, had announced in an April 13 letter posted by Bari Weiss this week that he has chosen not to reenroll his daughter in the all-girls school
Gutmann said on Saturday that he penned the 1,700-word letter he mailed to 650 different families because someone had to speak out
He claimed that the school s once-rigorous curriculum completely changed after administrators managed to sneak in an increased emphasis on race
A New York mayoral candidate and ex-MSNBC contributor who wants to end racist testing to determine who gets into the city s elite schools had her own daughter use the program - while her other daughter attends a $51,000-a-year private school.
Maya Wiley called for the abolition of the city s Gifted and Talented program to identify high-achieving students and the removal of all forms of pre-admission testing, claiming they entrenched white privilege .
Despite this, she sent her eldest daughter to Mark Twain Intermediate School for the Gifted and Talented, using the exact program she wants to abolish.
Her youngest daughter, meanwhile, wasn t even in the New York City public school system: She went to Brooklyn Friends, an expensive private school.