The New Upper-Class Signifier
12th March 2021
Ex-New York Times journalist Bari Weiss has written a fascinating piece for City Journalabout the trials and tribulations of white, upper-middle-class parents at the country’s most exclusive private schools. Hard to work up much sympathy for them, you might think, but the reason for their current difficulties is interesting: the wholesale capture of these elite educational institutions by the woke cult.
Brentwood, a school that costs $45,630 a year, made headlines a few weeks back when it held racially segregated ‘dialogue and community-building sessions.’ But when I speak with a parent of a middle-school student there, they want to talk about their child’s English curriculum. ‘They replaced all the books with no input or even informing the parents.’ The curriculum no longer features classics such as The Scarlet Letter, Little Women, To Kill a Mockingbird and Lord of the Flies. New books include: Stamped, Dear Martin, Dear Justyce and Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass.