The Head of School (we can't say Headmaster anymore - triggering) emailed the Dalton community. He characterizes the faculty letter as a "thought starter," not a list of demands. A working document, if you will, although it was signed by over one hundred staffers.
There's clearly some backpedaling going on here. I hear there was a hastily called board meeting. To be fair, the faculty letter does not say "demands." My sources say they view them as much, but I can't know for sure.
Also, in the spirit of accuracy, the faculty is not tying this to their return to the school. This may have been floated, but if so, is no longer the case. Too weak a hand? Dalton has been one of the only schools in New York that hasn't returned at all this year.
But this doesn't change the substance of what's going on here. If you haven't, I urge you to read all the "proposals." (See my previous post.) If you think it's a sane, rational document, if you think the ideas put forth would produce anything other than more divisiveness, you probably live that kind of woke bubble that only exists on the coasts and university towns.
Twelve full time diversity officers? Diversity officers are hammers looking for nails. Their very job descriptions necessitate finding them, and they do, even in progressive utopias like Dalton. This often means resorting to ill-defined "microagressions" and the like. You're racist even if you don't know it.
Diversity has become a full blown industry in America. It's not just Dalton. Hire more officers and they will find ever-more nuanced definitions of racism, as one commenter put it.
The goals of the diversity movement were, theoretically, commendable, at least for a time. the movement has become something else altogether. Sadly, it reduces the very people it strives to help to a permanent victim class.
How this is good for anyone, white or black, I don't know.
Their 'goals' were never commendable. At no time since about 1971 has protest politics had any legitimate function except in regard to a few spot problems, and even these are commonly misconceived. You want to address the actual distinctions between the black population and the remainder in a way that's socially salutary, you need to suppress street crime, improve vocational training, amend the incentives incorporated into common provision; and amend tax burdens, regulatory burdens, and common-and-garden service provision in re slum neighborhoods and points adjacent. The Dalton School, it's students, and it's employees have nothing special to contribute to any of these endeavours.
ReplyDeleteEvery seemingly-virtuous act as some dark secret at its heart and the mystery at the center of this one is that the new cadre of diversity warriors are themselves racist. In their minds, minorities can't help themselves but only the Great White Hope of Postmodernists can.
ReplyDeleteThe whole thing is self-flagellating drivel, perpetuated by people educated beyond their own intelligence.
Keep up the good work on this topic and thank you.
It isn't self-flagellating at all. These maroons indubitably think quite highly of themselves. It's you, your children, and everyone's ancestors they fancy are properly subject to defamation, gaslighting and abuse from the mascots they hire. It's witless and malevolent.
DeleteHere's their bloated board of trustees:
ReplyDeleteAlan Klein* President
Aly Sheezar Jeddy*
Ramsey Smith
Jim Best Head of School
Leah Johnson
Ashley Smyth*
Ronnie Abrams ’86
Olati Johnson*
Deirdre Stanley
Timothy Barakett*
Erica Klein
Benjamin tenOever
Graciela Hank Bitar
Bruce Menin
Andrew Weinberg ’92
Mark Chan
Durre Nabi
Brynja Sigurdardottir PA President
Sheree Chiou
Alexander Robinson
Joanna Stone Herman
Alumni Representative
John Clark
Ishaan Seth*
Emily Mindel Gottlieb '91 Dalton Council Chair
Jennie Tarr Coyne ’97*
James Simmons
Sarah Kerman Faculty Representative
Andreas Dracopoulos
Dasha Smith*
Jennifer Glassman*
*Executive Committee Members
Thank you for posting that - they seem to have removed their list from the web. Nor can I find a cached copy.
DeleteLessee:
ReplyDeleteAly Sheezar Jeddy is a partner at McKinsey & Co.
Ashley Smyth is a public health maven / NGO functionary
Olati Johnson sits on an endowed chair at Columbia Law School
Timothy Barakett runs private equity firms
Jenny Tarr Coyne (Harvard alum) teaches at an elementary school affiliated with Columbia University
Jennifer Glassman, I believe may be this dame
https://www.towerbrook.com/us/our-team/jennifer-glassman/
Our elites are plain awful.
Isn't this cute: Dasha Smith is Catbert at the National Football League.
ReplyDeletehttps://nflcommunications.com/Pages/NFL-NAMES-DASHA-SMITH-NEW-EXECUTIVE-VICE-PRESIDENT-AND-CHIEF-PEOPLE-OFFICER.aspx
Ishaan Seth is also a partner at McKinsey.
Ridiculous people. Let them eat themselves.
ReplyDeleteAnyone paying 55 grand per year for "education" deserves what they get
The real irony here is that they pay that 55 grand a year so their special snowflakes need not be exposed to the riff riff in NYC public schools, and to assure them on the waterfall to Ivy and “top” liberal arts colleges.
ReplyDeleteThese faculty and families are hypocrites of the highest order. If they truly believe in “diversity”, they’d live in Brownsville and send their kids to PS 666.
Parents pay through the nose to send their kids to a Dalton because they want the best shot at getting into a Harvard, Yale, or Princeton. Princeton's not going to be taking as many kids from Dalton once Dalton eliminates all advanced courses because black kids don't perform equally to white kids in those classes, as demanded in the manifesto.
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