The Dalton School is an independent K-12 day school located in Manhattan, so it’s a relief to know this list of demands isn’t from the faculty of a public school system (although it might as well be, seeing as they’re looking in Seattle to make white teachers atone for the “spirit murder” of black children). Colin Wright relays a report by “Campusland” author Scott Johnston that teachers at the Dalton School, founded by progressive educator Helen Parkhurst in 1919, are making a lot of demands in service of “anti-racism.”
1/ The Dalton School in Manhattan is having a race meltdown. It's absolutely insane. Teachers are holding the school for ransom with demands, but they're so extreme the school will crumble if they give in. But they'll crumble if they don't, too!
Here are some of the demands: pic.twitter.com/bbf33PoCFR
— Colin Wright (@SwipeWright) December 19, 2020
Wow: pay off the student debt of incoming black faculty; require courses on black liberation; reduce tuition for black students whose photographs appear in school promotional materials (no more exploitation of black bodies without restitution); require public anti-racism statements from all employees; and mandate diversity plot lines in school plays.
2/ "Dalton has… actively encouraged the sort of thinking that is now biting them in the ass. And the obvious irony is that if Dalton is 'systemically racist,' a belief they themselves promote, it is progressives who bear the responsibility." https://t.co/6NwN1YgOBU
— Colin Wright (@SwipeWright) December 19, 2020
3/ Other schools & universities should take note. Giving in to this ideology is not a winning strategy. Hiring diversity officers will not improve your situation. Diversity officers are good at one thing: finding reasons to justify hiring more diversity officers.
— Colin Wright (@SwipeWright) December 19, 2020
That reminds us of the professor who calculated that the University of Michigan spends $11 million on its diversity staff of around 100 employees — enough to pay the tuition of 765 students.
4/ You eventually reach a tipping point where there are so many diversity officers fighting to uncover ever-more nuanced forms of racism and perceived oppression that a school's probability of boiling over in a moral panic for no apparent reason approaches 1.
— Colin Wright (@SwipeWright) December 19, 2020
5/ The list of demands is only the short version. There are actually 24 much more expansive demands that span 8 full pages! Here they are below.
Source: https://t.co/X7z1P9ZOZT pic.twitter.com/H947jjTfuL
— Colin Wright (@SwipeWright) December 19, 2020
“In the same way that subjects such as English, art, physical education, and mathematics have been embedded within the Dalton experience, so too should coursework that is explicitly anti-racist. No Dalton student should graduate without taking classes that center race, identity, difference, and social justice.”
6/ And continued… pic.twitter.com/gSkENG2uiK
— Colin Wright (@SwipeWright) December 19, 2020
“The outpouring of pain from current students and alumni reflect ongoing trauma in the Dalton environment that has been underappreciated and unaddressed. Black students deserve to have a full-time advocate to support and validate them as they navigate a predominantly white institution.”
Is this real? Do you have a source? I’m hoping it’s fake or parody…
— Passie (@Passie_Kracht) December 19, 2020
That can’t be real.
— Mark Ortwein (@ortwein) December 19, 2020
Narrator: "But it was real."
— Colin Wright (@SwipeWright) December 19, 2020
Johnston has posted the entire manifesto to his blog, so yeah, it’s real.
It's insane.
— Susan Hurst (@SusanHu25307477) December 19, 2020
That is absolutely insane. They can't possibly agree to that!
— Pete Stubbs (@pete_stubbs1) December 19, 2020
And then they complain that their tuition fees are too high.
— James Greville (@jimigrev) December 19, 2020
I had to look up tuition. It’s already $54,180/year. ???
— Gaia Says (@Gaea56998567) December 19, 2020
This is so horrific but it also makes me laugh. But it’s more horrific.
— AllergictoFakeNews (@andrea_717_) December 19, 2020
There’s an entire society that I wouldn’t dream of wanting any part of.
— PennyFleamarket™️ (@pennyfleamarket) December 19, 2020
The increased supply of activist degrees creates its own demand.
— Zuckerbrot Mandelberg (@Benoit03157452) December 19, 2020
This is literally the most elite high school in America. People brag about going there like they do Harvard, and many attend both. If these schools give into such craziness, they won't be great schools and people will send there kids elsewhere.
— UnwokeBlog (@BlogUnwoke) December 19, 2020
If this movement continues, there won't be any schools where one can hope their children will get a top notch education.
— Jim Bond (@JimBond6) December 19, 2020
Just to put the diversity officer demand into perspective:
If this demand is accepted, there will be one diversity officer per 10 black students.
Will this be enough?
— A New Radical Centrism (@a_centrism) December 19, 2020
I'm sure, eventually, they'll find that it isn't.
— Todd Duncan (@constantnewness) December 19, 2020
The compelled speech is my favorite part of this authoritarian wish list.
— James Palmer (@jamerpalms) December 19, 2020
That’s a lot of new hiring and tuition relief. Fun to see how that economic plan works!
— Perspicuous (@chaos_sonata) December 19, 2020
https://twitter.com/Women___Exist/status/1340200762748506112
A smart person in my podcast feed recently pointed out that this is a very narcissistic ideology, that it leaves no room for any other considerations. This is the best example I’ve seen yet.
— daiso8 (@ejbdds8) December 19, 2020
We need to let the self-destruction play out. It's kind of like a form of free speech. Best way to expose it is to let it be heard, not to suppress it.
— Jeremiah Austin (@jeremiahdaustin) December 19, 2020
Tuition at Dalton is currently $54,180. I don't know how much a diversity officer earns there, but it is surely more than tuition for one student. It would likely take 15-20 students just to pay for the 12 diversity officers demanded.
This is nothing more than a naked shakedown.
— King Baeksu ?? (@KingBaeksu) December 19, 2020
"We hired 12 new diversity officers and a bunch of other useless staff"
"Why is tuition so high?"
— Erick Parker (@trailer_parker) December 19, 2020
With all those demands the school will be bankrupt before too long even with a reasonably healthy endowment & high fees. Perhaps the teachers are looking forward to a long holiday?
— MarianW (@Bardlander) December 19, 2020
Let’s go back in time 6 months, 1 year, 2 years, 5 years. Find the people making the most ludicrous demands of this nature. Make them swear we’re not on a slippery slope to this. And at the time, they would.
We must arrest the movement of the Overton Memory Hole.
— 2X (@2xminus1) December 19, 2020
Mandatory minority representation in elected student positions? Sounds a lot like the Chinese govt “you can vote for whatever candidate we choose”
— Alex Only (@Alex4Only) December 19, 2020
This is ludicrous. The best way to help minorities is to teach them solid, core subjects or STEM classes which will educate them and allow them to operate on a level playing field in finding jobs later in life. Classes about race will help no one in the long run.
— Samantha Phares (@Samanth13833648) December 19, 2020
Prediction:
Very wealthy people who can afford to buy the social credit by being part of this will continue supporting the school.The people who struggle financially to pay the bill and want the best for their kids will reduce enrollment.
— Justin (3'6", generally unqualified) (@FIIK85) December 19, 2020
It’s pretty hard to deny at this point that the US has a really serious problem with cults. It would have sounded absurd five years ago, but they seem to be swallowing enormous segments of civil society on both the left and the right.
— Biff Loman (@IndiscreetFrogs) December 19, 2020
These are literally insane and really, really demeaning and condescending to minorities.
— HeterodoxDan (@ProgPilgrim) December 19, 2020
One of the best things President Trump did was try to root out taxpayer-funded workshops on critical race theory to at least get this sort of thing out of the government. A Biden administration will restore it all though, if not expand it.
Related:
Is our children learning? Seattle Public Schools forcing white teachers to atone for their privilege and the ‘spirit murder’ of black kids [pics] https://t.co/gD3kwmAGhf
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) December 18, 2020
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