Journalist Megyn Kelly encouraged parents who have students at New York City’s Dalton School in their fight against the school’s shift toward an “anti-racism” curriculum.
“Parents at Dalton Sch. fight back against ‘anti-racist’ agenda: ‘Every class has had an obsessive focus on race & identity, ‘racist cop’ reenactments in science, ‘de- centering whiteness’ in art, learning about white supremacy in health…Many of us do not feel welcome any more,’” Kelly posted on Twitter.
Parents at Dalton Sch. fight back against “anti-racist” agenda: “Every class has had an obsessive focus on race & identity, “racist cop” reenactments in science, “de- centering whiteness” in art, learning about white supremacy in health…Many of us do not feel welcome any more.” pic.twitter.com/zCSc0ivRiY
— Megyn Kelly (@megynkelly) January 27, 2021
Kelly attached a copy of an open letter addressed to the “Dalton Community” from a group of concerned parents and alumni, which highlights the way the group feels the school has abandoned its mission to educate students.
“Love of learning is now being abandoned in favor of ‘anti-racist curriculum,’” the group wrote in the letter, adding that “every single class,” from “science to social studies to physical education,” has been “rewritten to embody ‘anti-racism.’”
The letter argues that the school’s new curriculum is “extremely exclusionary,” while pointing out that many members of the community do not “identify as part of an oversimplified racial dichotomy in a beautiful and diverse world.”
“Every class this year has had an obsessive focus on race and identity,” the letter reads. “‘Racist cop’ reenactments in science, ‘de-centering whiteness’ in art class, learning about white supremacy and sexuality in health class.
“Wildly age-inappropriate, many of these classes feel akin to a Zoom corporate sensitivity training training than to Dalton’s intellectually engaging curriculum,” it states.
The letter comes after teachers at the school released a controversial eight-page “anti-racism” manifesto last month, which included intents such as paying off the student debt of black staffers upon hiring them, requiring courses on “Black liberation” and “challenges to white supremacy,” overhauling the entire curriculum to reflect social justice themes, and requiring an “anti-racism” statement from all staffers.
The Dalton School did not immediately respond to the Washington Examiner’s request for comment.
Kelly has previously expressed similar concerns in her own children’s school, pulling her two sons from their New York City school in November after a letter allegedly circulated and accused white people of “reveling in state-sanctioned depravity.”
“After years of resisting it, we’re going to leave the city,” Kelly announced on her show.” “The schools have always been far-left, which doesn’t align with my own ideology, but I didn’t really care, most of my friends are liberals, it’s fine. I come from a Democrat family, I’m not offended at all by the ideology, and I lean center-left on some things.”
