A concerned parent in New York has set up a website to “speak up for education” after pulling his daughter out of The Brearley School in New York City in April over the school’s “obsession with race” and “appalling lack of leadership by appeasing an anti-intellectual, illiberal mob.” Following his first viral letter in April, Andrew Gutmann, whose daughter attended the elite all-girls private school, penned a second open letter in May sharply criticizing “the school’s obsession with race and adoption of critical race theory,” which is rooted in the Marxist theory of class struggle but applied to race. He now vows to “continue to fight for our children’s educations, for free speech, and against indoctrination, cancel culture and critical race theory.” He wrote that he was “gratified by the overwhelmingly supportive emails and messages that I have personally received” for his first letter to 650 families of the school. Gutmann said that before he …
Concerned New York Parent Sets up Website to ‘Speak up for Education’ Following Viral Letter
May 31, 2021
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