Commentary Do you live in New York City? If not, congratulations. You may have been spared preposterous virtue-signaling petri dishes like The Dalton School, an “elite”school on Manhattan’s upper east side where for a mere $54,000 per annum young Stephanie or Dylan can spend their days on Zoom because the school, unlike almost every other New York private school, refuses to open because of lazy teachers claiming to be terrified of our latest Chinese import, the CCP Virus. “Go Forth Unfraid®” is Dalton’s official motto, but that is obviously a misnomer. The school is terrified of life and exists solely to cater to the wounded “amour propre” of its self-absorbed faculty and the roughly 1300 K-12 students whose parents desperately hope that Dalton will be their child’s magic ticket to the advanced indoctrination and higher fatuousness of the Ivy League. It is a pathetic ambition, more so every year as …