An growing variety of mother and father are suing their youngsters’s costly, elite personal faculties for breach of contract after discovering “woke” left-wing ideological indoctrination hidden within the faculty curricula.
Bloomberg Legislation reported Monday:
When Jerome Eisenberg enrolled his daughter on the Brentwood Faculty in Los Angeles, the place Adam Levine met a few of his Maroon 5 bandmates, the funding supervisor says he anticipated her to get a conventional liberal arts training.
However after the homicide of George Floyd [in 2020], the $50,000-a-year faculty mentioned it was reimagining its goal “with a watch towards anti-racism” and variety, fairness and inclusion, or DEI. In Eisenberg’s view, Brentwood was pulling a “bait and change” on mother and father. He sued the college final yr for breach of contract, civil rights violations and emotional misery.
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David Pivtorak, a lawyer for Eisenberg, additionally mentioned he believes authorized complaints towards personal faculties over DEI have elevated, although he added that the true quantity could also be understated due to arbitration clauses just like the one at Brentwood.
In 2021, Los Angeles Journal ran a widely-circulated article in regards to the Brentwood Faculty, noting that different personal faculties in L.A. confronted related challenges:
Within the yr since Floyd’s homicide, the environment at this bucolic, super-exclusive, $38,000- to $45,000-a-year personal faculty has solely grown extra toxic, with some Brentwood alumni of colour not solely hurling accusations of racism but additionally demanding that the college fully scrap what they see as a biased curriculum. In the meantime, mother and father, academics, and directors spent a lot of final summer time and fall wrestling over the worth of books like To Kill a Mockingbird—a civil rights basic to some; an outdated, problematic textual content to others—in what’s shaping as much as be an epic battle over the hearts and minds of the youngsters of America’s one p.c.
To make certain, scenes like this are usually not occurring solely at Brentwood. Related skirmishes are breaking out at elite prep faculties throughout—at Harvard-Westlake, Marlborough, and Archer Faculty for Ladies in L.A. and in New York at Chapin and Dalton—making headlines throughout the nation in publications as ideologically divergent because the New York Put up and The Atlantic. But it surely’s price specializing in what’s happening at this specific faculty off West Sundown. As a result of it’s right here at Brentwood that each one the forces arrayed on this battle—woke alumni who need to tear the system down; academics who’ve had a tough sufficient time getting via the yr on Zoom, not to mention coping with paradigm shifts in academic priorities; and indignant, pissed off mothers and dads who simply need their youngsters to get into good schools—are most dramatically and publicly clashing, like these stranded boys battling one another on a abandoned island in Lord of the Flies, one of many novels Brentwood struck from studying lists final yr.
Bloomberg Legislation notes that the political context of curriculum fights has additionally heated up. California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) has accused conservative states of banning books, whereas Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) has boasted: “Florida is the place ‘woke’ goes to die.”
Whereas the Brentwood case described by Bloomberg Legislation has been despatched to arbitration, a small variety of such instances are breaking via within the courts.
Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Massive at Breitbart Information and the host of Breitbart Information Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). He’s the writer of the brand new biography, Rhoda: ‘Comrade Kadalie, You Are Out of Order’. He’s additionally the writer of the current e-book, Neither Free nor Honest: The 2020 U.S. Presidential Election. He’s a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Observe him on Twitter at @joelpollak.
