‘Woke weaning’ is coming to a school near you - and parents are too scared to question it
Certain US schools are taking the sledgehammer approach to race and equality, and teachers and parents are too afraid to speak up against it
19 April 2021 • 7:00pm
Imagine your little boy coming home from school and announcing that he is “bad” because he is white, “and that makes him racist and an oppressor”. Imagine a school where white teachers are told, as part of their strident Diversity, Equality and Inclusion (DEI) programme, that they have been guilty of “spirit-murdering” black children, a school where traditional “white” texts such as
With its manicured lawns and gently swaying palms, Harvard-Westlake is the school of choice for the children of Hollywood s elite.
Lily Collins, the actress daughter of Phil Collins, went there, as did Lily Sheen, the daughter of actors Kate Beckinsale and Michael Sheen.
Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington and Cybill Shepherd also sent their children to HW , as the school is affectionately known.
But in recent months, the £31,000-a-year institution has become a hotbed of controversy – the centre of what one parent, the mother of a teenage boy, described as wokeness gone mad .
For in the months since the death of George Floyd sparked protests across America, HW has introduced a Diversity, Equality and Inclusion (DEI) programme so strident that it has left many parents outraged.