SACRIFICE

Softly, surrounded by a fringe of inquisitive bright creatures, itself a silver shape beneath the steadfast constellations, Simon’s dead body moved out towards the open sea.

Jordan Park.  Jack Reid.  Nate Bronstein.  Jonah Anschell.  Matthew Clemson.  Kyle Miller.  Claudio Mandia.  Carl Worth.*  Say their names.  Today, Memorial Day, as we remember countless Americans who gave their lives for our country, and as we contemplate our complicity in allowing their deaths to protect the geopolitical industrial structure, we also remember children who are dead after taking their own lives.  Look at their faces.  We see our children.  We see children who did not have the chance to build their foundations, who did not have the chance to grow their armor.  We failed them.  We allowed our schools to be overtaken by the National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS).  But we do not allow it anymore.  These children were marooned in the shadow of the SEL/DEI/ESG/CEI (“SEL”) monster without adults.  If we do not want more of our children to die, we must be the grownups. 

The conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist.

Harvard-Westlake (CA), Episcopal School of Dallas (TX), Exeter (MA), Lawrenceville (NJ) (Brearley – NY alum), and Marlborough (CA) have all experienced student suicides since January 2023.  Last year, students from Latin School of Chicago (IL), McDonogh (MD), Lawrenceville (NJ), Kincaid (TX), Aiglon College (Switzerland), EF Academy (NY), and Exeter (MA) took their lives.  Before that, Choate (CT), Pace (GA), and Cushing Academy (MA).  These are merely the ones we know from the past few years.  There were others, grieved by their family, their friends, their community but unnamed, unpublicized.  Some received an article in the school paper and a memorial.  Most were swept under the rug merely used as justification to expand “wellness” with new departments of community, health and wellness, newly appointed wellness directors, new partnerships with psychiatric groups, increased SEL, and less emphasis on learning content.  This new SEL infrastructure is building a foundation devoid of the principles of our quickly fading society where individuals were judged by the content of their character not by the color of their skin, where hierarchies based on merit and hard work provided indispensable societal rules, and where basic kindness and decency were the ultimate goals.  Devastating suicide after tragic suicide, the agenda advances without question that the very SEL Industrial Complex claiming to improve and progress society is the very monster causing the ills and breakdown of society which compelled these innocent children to take their own lives.

Ralph…would treat the day’s decisions as though he were playing chess.  The only trouble was that he would never be a very good chess player.

He’s unvaxxed.  He’s Christian.  He’s a Trump supporter.  It was the pressure.  He didn’t seem like the type at all.  He was depressed.  He was a school leader.  Some rumors, some truths intended to demean, devalue, and deconstruct.  It isn’t academic stress.  It isn’t each individual child is “mentally ill.”  It isn’t “the family was going through something.”  These are all lies.  We’re in a mental health crisis you say?  No shit, Sherlock.  What do you think happens when people wear masks when they’re alone?  When churches and schools are closed but casinos and weed shops stay open?  When being fat is healthy and cutting your breasts out is self-care?  When staring at screens all day in school is learning?  When girls can have penises and boys can have babies?  When you are responsible for the crimes of history or everyone owes you because of something that happened to someone else hundreds of years ago?  When children are expected to solve the world’s problems as they finger knit to alleviate anxiety in eleventh grade human development?  But it’s deeper.  Make no mistake.  This is the plan.  This is the agenda.  This is SEL, and NAIS is the cartel leader.

Yes, this is happening to children in public schools, too.  Noteworthy are the demographics – a rash of 3 student suicides in 2 months of Spring 2022 in the tony NYC suburb of Darien, CT.  But when a 14 year-old girl who attended public school in New Jersey took her life after viral footage of classmates attacking her, parents protested the school and spoke openly together.  The silence in private school communities is deafening.  While we understand parents want to respect the privacy of families, it is out of respect for these children who felt they had to take their own lives that we must talk about this.  We need to know how to repair these broken environments for the survivors. 

The facts are clear: NAIS Schools are the breeding ground, and our children are the guinea pigs.  Independent X Headmasters have admitted privately that NAIS is responsible for SEL in our schools, providing streams of lectures and workshops every day for teachers and staff to consume: “It’s almost overwhelming!”  As we have repeated, the PR and marketing for SEL sound great: “Teaching children resilience and social and emotional intelligence!”  History states otherwise with Edward Thorndike and John Dewey advocating linking education with psychology to advance “social behaviorism.”  (WTF is SEL? Intrepid mom Lisa Logan also explains.)  Fundamentally, SEL replaces the focus on how children think to how children feel.  When you control how people feel, they are easy prey to programming.  My what big SEL programs you have, Independent X School.  All the better to demagogue you with, my dear!

At each step – approving Principles of Good Practice for Equity and Justice in 1996, hiring a Director of Global Initiatives in 2004, laying out a vision for schools to become sustainable in demographic, financial, environmental, global, and programmatic in 2005, endorsing Principles of Good Practice for Environmental Sustainability, Educating for Global Citizenship in 2010, setting out research summits to explore health and well-being in 2014, NAIS has been mandating its Marxist agenda into Independent X School.  Brearley’s (NY) 2014-2015 Strategic Vision setting out the importance of SEL and a new way of thinking about wellness is just one example.  “This year, with the support of Dr. Keba Rogers, our new Director of Counseling and Wellness, we will begin this important work by discussing, across all the divisions, three core topics that are cornerstones of strong and healthy girls: citizenship, self-care and purpose.  This new initiative will strengthen the skills the girls are building through our service learning and diversity efforts.”

In NAIS’ podcast New View EDU Episode 35: The Relationship Between Emotions and Learning, Dr. Mary Helen Immordino-Yang, Psych professor at CANDLE, the Center for Affective Neuroscience, Development, Learning, and Education at USC (Klingenstein Jr.), claims emotions are more important than reason for academic growth when she states: “The process of thinking is itself an emotional process…It’s literally neurobiologically impossible to think deeply about information for which you have no emotional reason or context to engage.”  Science, right?  She then maintains that school is not for learning knowledge but for “transcendent thinking” for the formation of a sense of self and marvels on how children construct stories.  Pathways for constructing tighter Russia collusion narratives!  Parroting NAIS’ theme of process over outcome, she insists “The work is not the proof, the thinking process is.”  NAIS uses these professionals and organizations to provide third party validation for diluting information and providing no objective criteria to gauge proficiency or success.  As they escape accountability, NAIS gathers data on each of our children provided by every NAIS School.  Ultimately, when information is power, “Those who control the data control the future – not just of humanity but of life itself.”  Thanks for the reminder, Yuval.

The mask was a thing on its own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-consciousness……He snatched his knife out of the sheath and slammed it into a tree trunk. Next time there would be no mercy.

If SEL is so essential, why has the increase in SEL in NAIS Schools been inversely proportional to the mental health in Independent X Children?  The truth is, SEL is the primary element making our children ill.  Social media, Covid lockdowns, and meds contribute of course, but they all drift atop an expansive ocean of SEL.  Disappearing are the days Independent X School teaches our children how to think, replaced with SEL used to manipulate how our children feel.  Learning has become an appeal to narcissism where only race, victimhood identity, and the imaginary “my truth” matter.  Without objective criteria, scientific method, and law based on reason free from emotion, we have a society based not on rational rules but anarchy dependent on the whims of inconstant feelings and tribalism.  Layered with restorative justice where the first to cry victim wins, facts be damned, the natural result has been children unnaturally empowered and emboldened.  They wield unbridled privilege to accuse without the understanding of the consequences.  Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.  Our children are then told they are culpable for the ills of history and must avert a catastrophic future.  They must accomplish all this despite hard work and merit being deemed “white supremacy.”  When their efforts effect nothing, what is left but nihilism?  Is it a surprise the majority if not all recent suicides in NAIS Schools have been white and asian children – the “oppressor” class.

SEL’s dismantling of the rules that have maintained human civility has exposed our children in Independent X School to primordial human nature.  Furries (people who dress up as anthropomorphic or cartoon animals) roam the hallways of Gulliver Prep (FL) and Marlborough (CA).  Children report teachers for microaggressions for any perceived injustice.  (We are reminded of a study of women perceiving discrimination in job interviews due to facial scars they believed make-up artists had applied to their faces but unbeknownst to them were actually removed before the interview.)  Aid recipients publicly shame Independent X School for not providing enough “equity.”  Masturbation is taught to first graders.  (Happy Masturbation May!)  Academic content is increasingly replaced with sex ed (pornography), diversity (identity narcissism), and false historical narratives (oppression Olympics) in class time and with a myriad of useless clubs.  Not even the days of the week provide any normalcy or consistency.  Challenge Success (resolution failure) and NAIS-formulated schedules run on 7, 8 or even 10-day cycles so children and teachers spend valuable brain power just keeping up with what classes they have on that day of the cycle.  This is what our children have been sitting through every minute, every hour, every day of their lives in NAIS Schools.  It’s no wonder our children have lost hope.

Driven back by the tide, his footprints became bays in which they were trapped and gave him the illusion of mastery.

When hope dissolves leaving only tragedy, NAIS and Independent X School gaslight – something they have turned into an art form.  Latin School of Chicago (LSC) claimed there was nothing it could have done and smeared Nate as mentally ill.  This, despite LSC administrators having prior knowledge of multiple specific student safety issues, including documented bullying against Nate Bronstein, and simply failing to do anything about it – the very definition of gross negligence.  So, too, was the case at Lawrenceville where Jack Reid was defamed with false sexual assault allegations – the most serious accusations that can be leveled against a boy.  This is still true in an age where killing unborn babies is celebrated, but sharing an obviously satirical Ben Shapiro meme led to the expulsion of a boy from Alexander Dawson (CO), possessing conservative leaning pictures led to KKK accusations and the expulsion of a Jewish boy from Vermont Academy (VT), and texting friends Halloween costumes she would not wear led to the school-wide shaming and the denial of re-enrollment of a Jewish girl from Spence (NY).  (Note: All three injustices occurred in NAIS Schools in 2018 – 5 years before the Douglass Mackey meme conviction and the Biden DHS pyramid of “far right radicalization.”  We’ve told you before, and we’ll tell you again: NAIS Schools are the testing ground and harbinger of what is to come in American society.)

Worse still, in its own report documented by NYT, “Lawrenceville School never told Jack or his family — or anyone else — that the investigation had concluded that the rumors involving a sexual assault were utterly false.”  LSC and Lawrenceville knew allegations involving Nate and Jack were false and intentionally did not exonerate these children.  It did not matter that Jack Reid’s father attended St. Alban’s (DC) and his grandmother was on the boards of Riverdale Country (NY), Masters (NY), and Rye Country Day (NY) – or perhaps that was exactly why.  Lawrenceville let children continue to call Jack a rapist.  A RAPIST.  LSC contacted Nate’s parents and put Nate on notice allegedly because he did not wear his mask correctly but did nothing when classmates used the n-word and bullied Nate.  Intentional refusal by LSC and Lawrenceville to quell false accusations allowed rumors to fester and grow, proximately causing Nate and Jack to take their own lives.  With NAIS Board Chair LSC Headmaster Randall Dunn at the helm, LSC prioritized insurance coverage over the safety and lives of the children in its protection.  This disparate and callous intentional behavior is disgustingly the result of SEL restorative justice policies mandated by NAIS.

An excuse to pick and choose whom they punish, NAIS is careful to use the phrase “restorative justice” sparingly.  You are not going to find any NAIS tweets using the phrase.  Independent X School sometimes says the quiet part out loud, usually in its DEI reports (see Lawrenceville’s DEI Report at page 2).  NAIS vilifies the “oppressor” class allowing them to be targeted, ironically under restorative justice as “belonging.”  Just ask Trinity’s (NY) Ginn Norris who equated white boys to serial killer TV character Dexter as rightful targets for elimination.  Despite Norris’ hateful comments, respecting and listening to adults used to be a value.  Now with opinions, feelings, and accusations of children elevated above the words of adults and dictating what adults do, the power of peer bullies has been grossly exalted.  Victims are blamed while crybully classmates more often than not escape punishment and even admonishment, particularly when bullies are “bipoc” or the children of famous political strategists, media celebrities, and WHO leaders.  What part of “equity” calls for a girl to be labeled a racist and shunned while Spence allowed its Lady Memers to go unpunished for their ridiculously foul and racist IG account?  We are not calling for retribution against the perpetrators.  We believe in forgiveness and in teaching children.  What we do not believe in is punishments discriminatorily applied to children by Independent X School as dictated by NAIS.

The cover-ups do not stop within our campuses.  If a family persists despite gaslighting, NAIS’ playbook allows for the issuance of phony mea culpas with even phonier “investigations” and “plans” to handle what to them is merely negative PR (Trinity’s phony investigation report).  Never let a good crisis go to waste, right Rahm?  (Not even Rahm Emanuel’s alma mater Bernard Zell Anshe Emet Day School (IL) escapes controversy.)  Although NAIS keeps its legal policy procedures regarding suicide password protected, their actions show every incident is an opportunity to enrich the SEL Industrial Complex just as a POTUS primary battle is a goldrush for consultants.  We’ve been in this battle long enough to know NYT pieces do not appear magically, and certainly not about private schools.  This has NAIS damage control and Baby Jane Group’s greasy fingerprints all over it.  Not only do headmasters avoid talking to the press unless they are planting a piece for specific reasons (This is not cynical; this is history.), the “series of corrective actions” Lawrenceville committed to taking upon the Lawrenceville-Reid settlement agreement were already in Lawrenceville’s 2016 Strategic Plan.  Lawrenceville already had anti-bullying policies and suicide prevention partners.  This was no win for the Reids and does not honor Jack’s memory.  What this NYT piece really is, is marketing and PR.  We went to NAIS Schools when they still taught critical analysis.  We aren’t buying what they’re selling.

Maybe there is a beast… maybe it’s only us.

For each child who dies from NAIS Schools, there are tens of thousands of survivors.  NAIS wants Independent X School to be our children’s parent – to the point of hiding things from us.  But the instant something negative happens, Independent X School points the blame elsewhere.  They know bullies are enabled and amplified by Snap (Evan Spiegel – Crossroads, CA) and IG (Mark Zuckerberg – Exeter, NH) and have already prioritized mental health.  Groton even has its own IG wellness account.  Nonetheless, NAIS admittedly manipulates how our children feel with transformative SEL in order to advance the “Wellness” agenda – part of the UNESCO Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child (WSCC) model.  The useful idiots in the SEL Industrial Complex are more than happy to profit from it with new Deans of Campus Wellbeing here, new Child Mind Institute partnerships there – anything to throw the scent off the solution of the problem being its source.  Our children are not the crazy ones.

This is the legacy being left by political dynasties, fashion families, royalty, Bush (Kincaid, Andover), Getty (formerly Aiglon), Joseph Tsai (Lawrenceville), Meredith Whitney (Lawrenceville).  We won’t bore you with another endless list of names, but “What good will it be for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul?”  As long as we keep allowing NAIS to push SEL, children will keep being sacrificed.  John Thomas Dye (CA) should worry less about mandating children wear rainbows to kick off “pride” month and more about the priorities of its NAIS-affiliated security firm – especially after a threat forced JTD to cancel its school fair and reschedule a limited version.  McDonogh (MD) parents should ask why teacher Scott Tiemann, who was rumored to groom students, was allegedly found dead in his garage from a table saw to his neck after McDonogh student Kyle Miller took his own life.  At the very least, we should demand NAIS and Covenant (TN) release the killer trans alum’s manifesto.  It’s time real threats – not demagogued Target “anti-LGBT extremist threats” that are actually trans extremist threats, are investigated.  This is not just on NAIS, this is on every headmaster, every trustee, and every parent.  If headmasters at schools like, say Gulliver Prep (FL), have enough time for extramarital dalliances, they certainly have time to do their jobs.  “Grownups know things,” said Piggy. “They ain’t afraid of the dark. They’d meet and have tea and discuss. Then things ’ud be all right—.”  We are the grownups.  It’s high time we act like it.

The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.

The rise in Godlessness corresponds with the rise in SEL, both inversely proportional to mental health.  No wonder Jack Reid kept a Bible in his pocket.  These children sacrificed their lives for the lives of our children, to wake us up.  We’re sorry Nate.  We’re sorry Jack.  We’re sorry Jordan.  We’re sorry Jonah.  We failed you.  We will not stop until people are held to account.  We will keep fighting to protect all survivors.  We owe you at least that.  End Independent X School’s affiliation with the NAIS cartel.

*Note: The original edit mistakenly stated Clark instead of Carl Worth.

Shits & Giggles

As we transition from graduation season to SCOTUS decision season and Drag Floyd-Fed boi-false flag season, we must imagine what can be unburdened by what has been.  CNN+ – a doozy.  Buzzfeed News, Vice, MTV News.  Interesting.  Stacey Abrams at Bilderberger.  More interesting (and hilarious).  Having already offloaded their jewelry, Gettys auctioning off all their art.  Most interesting.  Surrounded by Hoover Fellows, will Funder of RINOs Ken Griffin (Ransom Everglades (FL) parent) reimagine what can be to sunny Palo Alto unburdened by what $500M has been to gloomy Cambridge?  PE imagines what can be laundered in Ukraine unburdened by what Hunter investment scheme has been.  The public-private government money grab partnership imagines what school choice can be unburdened by what Obamacare has been.  Shareholder value to stakeholder value, ESG to CEI with further bank consolidations, are any of the dogs getting at all irritated being wagged by the tail?  Who knew tails included intelligent apparatus?  Unburdened by what has been, guess it’s just limited hangout now.  On to Majorca for some tennis.  Fweedom!