Educating Our Youth

For John, BLUF:  As we go into the 4th of July Weekend it is not encouraging to find that the children of the Elite are being taught that America is a bad place..  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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Elite NYC private schools are teaching kids that American society must be destroyed

From The New York Post, by Mr Robert Pondiscio, 16 June 2022, 5:18pm.

Here is the lede plus four:

Ryan Finlay is a brave young man.  A senior at the elite private Horace Mann School, Finlay last week published a pointed but measured essay describing the aggressive political bias that’s dominated his education on the Bronx campus, where generations of famous and well-connected New Yorkers, from Jack Kerouac to Eliot Spitzer, have matriculated or sent their children.

Faculty “feel obligated to open students’ eyes to the inequality that surrounds them,” Finlay explained, but that takes the form of “continuous pressure in the classroom to embrace visions of wholesale societal reform.”

The message, hammered relentlessly into students’ heads at Horace Mann, is that “the system is broken, unable to be reformed, rotten to the core, and deserving of demolition,” he wrote.

The irony of hyper-privileged New Yorkers paying nearly $60,000 a year for their children to learn they are the undeserving beneficiaries of a broken system need not be dwelled upon here.  Finlay’s essay breaks the self-imposed conspiracy of silence that has largely shielded top private schools from criticism from within.

There have been rare exceptions of dissident teachers like Paul Rossi of the Grace School and “Brearley Dad” Andrew Gutmann, who blow the whistle on private-school indoctrination.  But few are willing to do so publicly.  The largely unquestioned proposition is that private prep schools are the gateway to elite universities and America’s leadership class, an academic arms race famously described in a New York magazine cover story 25 years ago as “Give me Harvard, or give me death.”

It seems that the"Right Thinking" people are rejecting our the idea of the United States for something else.  What that is, I don't know.  Do they?

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff