Parents have sent complaints to the $55,000-per-year Dalton School in New York City after it was revealed that first-graders were taking sex education lessons that included masturbation.
New York
The Social Order
In late January, months of feuding at New York City’s Dalton School spilled into public view. In an anonymous letter, a group of alumni and parents wrote that the school they had long loved was abandoning real education in favor of “an obsessive focus on race and identity” in every class.
In particular, the letter’s authors blame Pollyanna, a New York-based Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) nonprofit. The consultancy’s “racial literacy” curriculum, the letter claimed, “has already permeated Dalton classes from social studies to science” and contributed to “some of the worst abuses this year” incidents like the one in which a Jewish student was forced to play the “racist cop” in science class, or the art class on “decentering whiteness.”
fed up.
Hence, they’re demanding a change: They want anti-racism, and they want it now.
As reported by The Washington Free Beacon, a group of staff at New York City’s Dalton School have allegedly petitioned the administration to implement a series of “anti-racist” measures.
In case you’re not hip to the term, anti-racism isn’t the lack of racism.
Per CNN, it “means more than ridding yourself of racist attitudes, beliefs and behaviors. It means you’re also actively fighting that reprehensible trinity as it manifests in your life on a daily basis.”
“Calling people racist names or threatening people on the basis of race,” the outlet reports, is merely “the tip of the iceberg.”