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Who is Andrew Gutmann? Just a dad


April 13, 2021
Dear Fellow Brearley Parents,

Our family recently made the decision not to reenroll our daughter at Brearley for the 2021-22 school year. She has been at Brearley for seven years, beginning in kindergarten. In short, we no longer believe that Brearley’s administration and Board of Trustees have any of our children’s best interests at heart. Moreover, we no longer have confidence that our daughter will receive the quality of education necessary to further her development into a critically thinking, responsible, enlightened, and civic minded adult. I write to you, as a fellow parent, to share our reasons for leaving the Brearley community but also to urge you to act before the damage to the school, to its community, and to your own child's education is irreparable.

It cannot be stated strongly enough that Brearley’s obsession with race must stop. It should be abundantly clear to any thinking parent that Brearley has completely lost its way. The administration and the Board of Trustees have displayed a cowardly and appalling lack of leadership by appeasing an anti-intellectual, illiberal mob, and then allowing the school to be captured by that same mob. What follows are my own personal views on Brearley's antiracism initiatives, but these are just a handful of the criticisms that I know other parents have expressed.
I object to the view that I should be judged by the color of my skin. I cannot tolerate a school that not only judges my daughter by the color of her skin, but encourages and instructs her to prejudge others by theirs. By viewing every element of education, every aspect of history, and every facet of society through the lens of skin color and race, we are desecrating the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and utterly violating the movement for which such civil rights leaders believed, fought, and died.

I object to the charge of systemic racism in this country, and at our school. Systemic racism, properly understood, is segregated schools and separate lunch counters. It is the interning of Japanese and the exterminating of Jews. Systemic racism is unequivocally not a small number of isolated incidences over a period of decades. Ask any girl, of any race, if they have ever experienced insults from friends, have ever felt slighted by teachers or have ever suffered the occasional injustice from a school at which they have spent up to 13 years of their life, and you are bound to hear grievances, some petty, some not. We have not had systemic racism against Blacks in this country since the civil rights reforms of the 1960s, a period of more than 50 years. To state otherwise is a flat-out misrepresentation of our country's history and adds no understanding to any of today's societal issues. If anything, longstanding and widespread policies such as affirmative action, point in precisely the opposite direction.

I object to a definition of systemic racism, apparently supported by Brearley, that any educational, professional, or societal outcome where Blacks are underrepresented is prima facie evidence of the aforementioned systemic racism, or of white supremacy and oppression. Facile and unsupported beliefs such as these are the polar opposite to the intellectual and scientific truth for which Brearley claims to stand. Furthermore, I call bullshit on Brearley's oft-stated assertion that the school welcomes and encourages the truly difficult and uncomfortable conversations regarding race and the roots of racial discrepancies.

I object to the idea that Blacks are unable to succeed in this country without aid from government or from whites. Brearley, by adopting critical race theory, is advocating the abhorrent viewpoint that Blacks should forever be regarded as helpless victims, and are incapable of success regardless of their skills, talents, or hard work. What Brearley is teaching our children is precisely the true and correct definition of racism.

I object to mandatory anti-racism training for parents, especially when presented by the rent-seeking charlatans of Pollyanna. These sessions, in both their content and delivery, are so sophomoric and simplistic, so unsophisticated and inane, that I would be embarrassed if they were taught to Brearley kindergarteners. They are an insult to parents and unbecoming of any educational institution, let alone one of Brearley's caliber.

I object to Brearley’s vacuous, inappropriate, and fanatical use of words such as “equity,” “diversity” and “inclusiveness.” If Brearley’s administration was truly concerned about so-called “equity,” it would be discussing the cessation of admissions preferences for legacies, siblings, and those families with especially deep pockets. If the administration was genuinely serious about “diversity,” it would not insist on the indoctrination of its students, and their families, to a single mindset, most reminiscent of the Chinese Cultural Revolution. Instead, the school would foster an environment of intellectual openness and freedom of thought. And if Brearley really cared about “inclusiveness,” the school would return to the concepts encapsulated in the motto “One Brearley,” instead of teaching the extraordinarily divisive idea that there are only, and always, two groups in this country: victims and oppressors.

l object to Brearley’s advocacy for groups and movements such as Black Lives Matter, a Marxist, anti family, heterophobic, anti-Asian and anti-Semitic organization that neither speaks for the majority of the Black community in this country, nor in any way, shape or form, represents their best interests.

I object to, as we have been told time and time again over the past year, that the school’s first priority is the safety of our children. For goodness sake, Brearley is a school, not a hospital! The number one priority of a school has always been, and always will be, education. Brearley’s misguided priorities exemplify both the safety culture and “cover-your-ass” culture that together have proved so toxic to our society and have so damaged the mental health and resiliency of two generations of children, and counting.

I object to the gutting of the history, civics, and classical literature curriculums. I object to the censorship of books that have been taught for generations because they contain dated language potentially offensive to the thin-skinned and hypersensitive (something that has already happened in my daughter's 4th grade class). I object to the lowering of standards for the admission of students and for the hiring of teachers. I object to the erosion of rigor in classwork and the escalation of grade inflation. Any parent with eyes open can foresee these inevitabilities should antiracism initiatives be allowed to persist.

We have today in our country, from both political parties, and at all levels of government, the most unwise and unvirtuous leaders in our nation’s history. Schools like Brearley are supposed to be the training grounds for those leaders. Our nation will not survive a generation of leadership even more poorly educated than we have now, nor will we survive a generation of students taught to hate its own country and despise its history.

Lastly, I object, with as strong a sentiment as possible, that Brearley has begun to teach what to think, instead of how to think. I object that the school is now fostering an environment where our daughters, and our daughters’ teachers, are afraid to speak their minds in class for fear of “consequences.” I object that Brearley is trying to usurp the role of parents in teaching morality, and bullying parents to adopt that false morality at home. I object that Brearley is fostering a divisive community where families of different races, which until recently were part of the same community, are now segregated into two. These are the reasons why we can no longer send our daughter to Brearley.

Over the past several months, I have personally spoken to many Brearley parents as well as parents of children at peer institutions. It is abundantly clear that the majority of parents believe that Brearley’s antiracism policies are misguided, divisive, counterproductive and cancerous. Many believe, as I do, that these policies will ultimately destroy what was until recently, a wonderful educational institution. But as I am sure will come as no surprise to you, given the insidious cancel culture that has of late permeated our society, most parents are too fearful to speak up.

But speak up you must. There is strength in numbers and I assure you, the numbers are there. Contact the administration and the Board of Trustees and demand an end to the destructive and anti-intellectual claptrap known as antiracism. And if changes are not forthcoming then demand new leadership. For the sake of our community, our city, our country and most of all, our children, silence is no longer an option.
Respectfully,

Andrew Gutmann


 
Just another white parent (who's sending their daughter to a 54K/yr private school no less) whining. His daughter will be replaced by another girl who will now have the honor of having the schools name on her transcript.
Selfish too. Just yank the girl out of the school she's known for 7 years because you're having a hissy fit. Sounds like the typical sports parent I saw when my children played sports. It was brutal.
Or maybe, he just wanted his 54K/yr back. :)

EDIT - Looks like the headmistress slapped back. Looks like there are parents who aren't too pleased either. Careful what bridge you decide to make your stand on.
 
Just another white parent (who's sending their daughter to a 54K/yr private school no less) whining. His daughter will be replaced by another girl who will now have the honor of having the schools name on her transcript.
Selfish too. Just yank the girl out of the school she's known for 7 years because you're having a hissy fit. Sounds like the typical sports parent I saw when my children played sports. It was brutal.
Or maybe, he just wanted his 54K/yr back. :)

EDIT - Looks like the headmistress slapped back. Looks like there are parents who aren't too pleased either. Careful what bridge you decide to make your stand on.

Of course he must be destroyed cause blacks need white people like you and the head mistress to look after them .....

People are less and less impressed on what the left passes off as education....except for useful idiots like yourself
 
The parent better get over it, for the country will not change for him.
 
Just another white parent (who's sending their daughter to a 54K/yr private school no less) whining. His daughter will be replaced by another girl who will now have the honor of having the schools name on her transcript.
Selfish too. Just yank the girl out of the school she's known for 7 years because you're having a hissy fit. Sounds like the typical sports parent I saw when my children played sports. It was brutal.
Or maybe, he just wanted his 54K/yr back. :)

EDIT - Looks like the headmistress slapped back. Looks like there are parents who aren't too pleased either. Careful what bridge you decide to make your stand on.

Of course he must be destroyed cause blacks need white people like you and the head mistress to look after them .....

People are less and less impressed on what the left passes off as education....except for useful idiots like yourself

Love the hypocrisy. When it's all about some religious knucklehead who's being asked to make a cake for a gay couple, you'll bleat like the little alt-right sheep you are and ask why the couple shouldn't just move on and find another person to bake their cake. But when it's some whiny, privileged white parent sending their child to a expensive private school, you'll tell him to fight and make a scene...not to just move on if he doesn't like the policy.

You're not even a useful idiot. Just an idiot.
 
Just another white parent (who's sending their daughter to a 54K/yr private school no less) whining. His daughter will be replaced by another girl who will now have the honor of having the schools name on her transcript.
Selfish too. Just yank the girl out of the school she's known for 7 years because you're having a hissy fit. Sounds like the typical sports parent I saw when my children played sports. It was brutal.
Or maybe, he just wanted his 54K/yr back. :)

EDIT - Looks like the headmistress slapped back. Looks like there are parents who aren't too pleased either. Careful what bridge you decide to make your stand on.

Of course he must be destroyed cause blacks need white people like you and the head mistress to look after them .....

People are less and less impressed on what the left passes off as education....except for useful idiots like yourself

Love the hypocrisy. When it's all about some religious knucklehead who's being asked to make a cake for a gay couple, you'll bleat like the little alt-right sheep you are and ask why the couple shouldn't just move on and find another person to bake their cake. But when it's some whiny, privileged white parent sending their child to a expensive private school, you'll tell him to fight and make a scene...not to just move on if he doesn't like the policy.

You're not even a useful idiot. Just an idiot.
What lol
 
Just another white parent (who's sending their daughter to a 54K/yr private school no less) whining. His daughter will be replaced by another girl who will now have the honor of having the schools name on her transcript.
Selfish too. Just yank the girl out of the school she's known for 7 years because you're having a hissy fit. Sounds like the typical sports parent I saw when my children played sports. It was brutal.
Or maybe, he just wanted his 54K/yr back. :)

EDIT - Looks like the headmistress slapped back. Looks like there are parents who aren't too pleased either. Careful what bridge you decide to make your stand on.
and just another demonRAT shit stain that denies the TRUTH....racism is the way demonRATS teach...what a smart parent for getting their child away from racism, but in your deranged head, thats wrong. but, then again, anyone in their right mind can see you are a racist
 
Just another white parent (who's sending their daughter to a 54K/yr private school no less) whining. His daughter will be replaced by another girl who will now have the honor of having the schools name on her transcript.
Selfish too. Just yank the girl out of the school she's known for 7 years because you're having a hissy fit. Sounds like the typical sports parent I saw when my children played sports. It was brutal.
Or maybe, he just wanted his 54K/yr back. :)

EDIT - Looks like the headmistress slapped back. Looks like there are parents who aren't too pleased either. Careful what bridge you decide to make your stand on.

Of course he must be destroyed cause blacks need white people like you and the head mistress to look after them .....

People are less and less impressed on what the left passes off as education....except for useful idiots like yourself

Love the hypocrisy. When it's all about some religious knucklehead who's being asked to make a cake for a gay couple, you'll bleat like the little alt-right sheep you are and ask why the couple shouldn't just move on and find another person to bake their cake. But when it's some whiny, privileged white parent sending their child to a expensive private school, you'll tell him to fight and make a scene...not to just move on if he doesn't like the policy.

You're not even a useful idiot. Just an idiot.
and here we are....the sheep, are shit stains like you. its quite obvious you were never taught right from wrong, so, you go on being just a shit stain demonRAT
 
Who is Andrew Gutmann? Just a dad


April 13, 2021
Dear Fellow Brearley Parents,

Our family recently made the decision not to reenroll our daughter at Brearley for the 2021-22 school year. She has been at Brearley for seven years, beginning in kindergarten. In short, we no longer believe that Brearley’s administration and Board of Trustees have any of our children’s best interests at heart. Moreover, we no longer have confidence that our daughter will receive the quality of education necessary to further her development into a critically thinking, responsible, enlightened, and civic minded adult. I write to you, as a fellow parent, to share our reasons for leaving the Brearley community but also to urge you to act before the damage to the school, to its community, and to your own child's education is irreparable.

It cannot be stated strongly enough that Brearley’s obsession with race must stop. It should be abundantly clear to any thinking parent that Brearley has completely lost its way. The administration and the Board of Trustees have displayed a cowardly and appalling lack of leadership by appeasing an anti-intellectual, illiberal mob, and then allowing the school to be captured by that same mob. What follows are my own personal views on Brearley's antiracism initiatives, but these are just a handful of the criticisms that I know other parents have expressed.
I object to the view that I should be judged by the color of my skin. I cannot tolerate a school that not only judges my daughter by the color of her skin, but encourages and instructs her to prejudge others by theirs. By viewing every element of education, every aspect of history, and every facet of society through the lens of skin color and race, we are desecrating the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and utterly violating the movement for which such civil rights leaders believed, fought, and died.

I object to the charge of systemic racism in this country, and at our school. Systemic racism, properly understood, is segregated schools and separate lunch counters. It is the interning of Japanese and the exterminating of Jews. Systemic racism is unequivocally not a small number of isolated incidences over a period of decades. Ask any girl, of any race, if they have ever experienced insults from friends, have ever felt slighted by teachers or have ever suffered the occasional injustice from a school at which they have spent up to 13 years of their life, and you are bound to hear grievances, some petty, some not. We have not had systemic racism against Blacks in this country since the civil rights reforms of the 1960s, a period of more than 50 years. To state otherwise is a flat-out misrepresentation of our country's history and adds no understanding to any of today's societal issues. If anything, longstanding and widespread policies such as affirmative action, point in precisely the opposite direction.

I object to a definition of systemic racism, apparently supported by Brearley, that any educational, professional, or societal outcome where Blacks are underrepresented is prima facie evidence of the aforementioned systemic racism, or of white supremacy and oppression. Facile and unsupported beliefs such as these are the polar opposite to the intellectual and scientific truth for which Brearley claims to stand. Furthermore, I call bullshit on Brearley's oft-stated assertion that the school welcomes and encourages the truly difficult and uncomfortable conversations regarding race and the roots of racial discrepancies.

I object to the idea that Blacks are unable to succeed in this country without aid from government or from whites. Brearley, by adopting critical race theory, is advocating the abhorrent viewpoint that Blacks should forever be regarded as helpless victims, and are incapable of success regardless of their skills, talents, or hard work. What Brearley is teaching our children is precisely the true and correct definition of racism.

I object to mandatory anti-racism training for parents, especially when presented by the rent-seeking charlatans of Pollyanna. These sessions, in both their content and delivery, are so sophomoric and simplistic, so unsophisticated and inane, that I would be embarrassed if they were taught to Brearley kindergarteners. They are an insult to parents and unbecoming of any educational institution, let alone one of Brearley's caliber.

I object to Brearley’s vacuous, inappropriate, and fanatical use of words such as “equity,” “diversity” and “inclusiveness.” If Brearley’s administration was truly concerned about so-called “equity,” it would be discussing the cessation of admissions preferences for legacies, siblings, and those families with especially deep pockets. If the administration was genuinely serious about “diversity,” it would not insist on the indoctrination of its students, and their families, to a single mindset, most reminiscent of the Chinese Cultural Revolution. Instead, the school would foster an environment of intellectual openness and freedom of thought. And if Brearley really cared about “inclusiveness,” the school would return to the concepts encapsulated in the motto “One Brearley,” instead of teaching the extraordinarily divisive idea that there are only, and always, two groups in this country: victims and oppressors.

l object to Brearley’s advocacy for groups and movements such as Black Lives Matter, a Marxist, anti family, heterophobic, anti-Asian and anti-Semitic organization that neither speaks for the majority of the Black community in this country, nor in any way, shape or form, represents their best interests.

I object to, as we have been told time and time again over the past year, that the school’s first priority is the safety of our children. For goodness sake, Brearley is a school, not a hospital! The number one priority of a school has always been, and always will be, education. Brearley’s misguided priorities exemplify both the safety culture and “cover-your-ass” culture that together have proved so toxic to our society and have so damaged the mental health and resiliency of two generations of children, and counting.

I object to the gutting of the history, civics, and classical literature curriculums. I object to the censorship of books that have been taught for generations because they contain dated language potentially offensive to the thin-skinned and hypersensitive (something that has already happened in my daughter's 4th grade class). I object to the lowering of standards for the admission of students and for the hiring of teachers. I object to the erosion of rigor in classwork and the escalation of grade inflation. Any parent with eyes open can foresee these inevitabilities should antiracism initiatives be allowed to persist.

We have today in our country, from both political parties, and at all levels of government, the most unwise and unvirtuous leaders in our nation’s history. Schools like Brearley are supposed to be the training grounds for those leaders. Our nation will not survive a generation of leadership even more poorly educated than we have now, nor will we survive a generation of students taught to hate its own country and despise its history.

Lastly, I object, with as strong a sentiment as possible, that Brearley has begun to teach what to think, instead of how to think. I object that the school is now fostering an environment where our daughters, and our daughters’ teachers, are afraid to speak their minds in class for fear of “consequences.” I object that Brearley is trying to usurp the role of parents in teaching morality, and bullying parents to adopt that false morality at home. I object that Brearley is fostering a divisive community where families of different races, which until recently were part of the same community, are now segregated into two. These are the reasons why we can no longer send our daughter to Brearley.

Over the past several months, I have personally spoken to many Brearley parents as well as parents of children at peer institutions. It is abundantly clear that the majority of parents believe that Brearley’s antiracism policies are misguided, divisive, counterproductive and cancerous. Many believe, as I do, that these policies will ultimately destroy what was until recently, a wonderful educational institution. But as I am sure will come as no surprise to you, given the insidious cancel culture that has of late permeated our society, most parents are too fearful to speak up.

But speak up you must. There is strength in numbers and I assure you, the numbers are there. Contact the administration and the Board of Trustees and demand an end to the destructive and anti-intellectual claptrap known as antiracism. And if changes are not forthcoming then demand new leadership. For the sake of our community, our city, our country and most of all, our children, silence is no longer an option.
Respectfully,

Andrew Gutmann


What a snowflake :rolleyes:
 
Just another white parent (who's sending their daughter to a 54K/yr private school no less) whining. His daughter will be replaced by another girl who will now have the honor of having the schools name on her transcript.
Selfish too. Just yank the girl out of the school she's known for 7 years because you're having a hissy fit. Sounds like the typical sports parent I saw when my children played sports. It was brutal.
Or maybe, he just wanted his 54K/yr back. :)

EDIT - Looks like the headmistress slapped back. Looks like there are parents who aren't too pleased either. Careful what bridge you decide to make your stand on.

Of course he must be destroyed cause blacks need white people like you and the head mistress to look after them .....

People are less and less impressed on what the left passes off as education....except for useful idiots like yourself

Love the hypocrisy. When it's all about some religious knucklehead who's being asked to make a cake for a gay couple, you'll bleat like the little alt-right sheep you are and ask why the couple shouldn't just move on and find another person to bake their cake. But when it's some whiny, privileged white parent sending their child to a expensive private school, you'll tell him to fight and make a scene...not to just move on if he doesn't like the policy.

You're not even a useful idiot. Just an idiot.

I do very much like the fact that my kids will be out in the world competing for jobs and opportunities with kids who never learned to read, write, or do math, but believe they are just useless pieces of racist shit who don't deserve anything. Those kinds of people are very easy to beat.

LOL
 
The parent better get over it, for the country will not change for him.
The parent better get over it, for the country will not change for him.
You have no clue as to what is taught in "The Critical Race Theory", do you? You simply listen to you masters and follow their orders.

Why do you demand that children be taught that they should be ashamed of their race?
 
Just another white parent (who's sending their daughter to a 54K/yr private school no less) whining. His daughter will be replaced by another girl who will now have the honor of having the schools name on her transcript.
Selfish too. Just yank the girl out of the school she's known for 7 years because you're having a hissy fit. Sounds like the typical sports parent I saw when my children played sports. It was brutal.
Or maybe, he just wanted his 54K/yr back. :)

EDIT - Looks like the headmistress slapped back. Looks like there are parents who aren't too pleased either. Careful what bridge you decide to make your stand on.

Of course he must be destroyed cause blacks need white people like you and the head mistress to look after them .....

People are less and less impressed on what the left passes off as education....except for useful idiots like yourself

Love the hypocrisy. When it's all about some religious knucklehead who's being asked to make a cake for a gay couple, you'll bleat like the little alt-right sheep you are and ask why the couple shouldn't just move on and find another person to bake their cake. But when it's some whiny, privileged white parent sending their child to a expensive private school, you'll tell him to fight and make a scene...not to just move on if he doesn't like the policy.

You're not even a useful idiot. Just an idiot.

The futile attempt you make at drawing an analogy between a private school and a baker is farcical at best and just stupid at worse.

Calling someone an idiot does nothing to streghthen your point of view. You have not effectively refuted one single point in the author's letter.

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Just another white parent (who's sending their daughter to a 54K/yr private school no less) whining. His daughter will be replaced by another girl who will now have the honor of having the schools name on her transcript.
Selfish too. Just yank the girl out of the school she's known for 7 years because you're having a hissy fit. Sounds like the typical sports parent I saw when my children played sports. It was brutal.
Or maybe, he just wanted his 54K/yr back. :)

EDIT - Looks like the headmistress slapped back. Looks like there are parents who aren't too pleased either. Careful what bridge you decide to make your stand on.

The headmistress "slapped back". Nothing in her letter to the parents contains one iota of substance. She played the victim and bailed.

Why do you demand that our children be taught to hate our country and be ashamed of their own race? How is that good for America?
 
Just another white parent (who's sending their daughter to a 54K/yr private school no less) whining. His daughter will be replaced by another girl who will now have the honor of having the schools name on her transcript.
Selfish too. Just yank the girl out of the school she's known for 7 years because you're having a hissy fit. Sounds like the typical sports parent I saw when my children played sports. It was brutal.
Or maybe, he just wanted his 54K/yr back. :)

EDIT - Looks like the headmistress slapped back. Looks like there are parents who aren't too pleased either. Careful what bridge you decide to make your stand on.

The headmistress "slapped back". Nothing in her letter to the parents contains one iota of substance. She played the victim and bailed.

Why do you demand that our children be taught to hate our country and be ashamed of their own race? How is that good for America?

You don't like the policy, leave..or deal with it. Frankly since it's your daughter, I would think you'd be more measured in your response. Maybe she doesn't find the policy intrusive. No one is teaching anyone to hate anything. Just rectifying and clarifying history. Again, if all you right wingers have are wedge issues, your extinction level event is upon you. :)
 
You don't like the policy, leave..or deal with it. Frankly since it's your daughter, I would think you'd be more measured in your response. Maybe she doesn't find the policy intrusive. No one is teaching anyone to hate anything. Just rectifying and clarifying history. Again, if all you right wingers have are wedge issues, your extinction level event is upon you.

You have no clue as to what is being taught in "Critical Race Theory".

Honestly educate yourself, then come back.
 

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