Is there anything more Orwellian than SCOTUS Nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson, chosen solely for being a black woman, being unable to define a “woman?” Forget how she can establish women as a protected class if she cannot define women. This is a Marxist game. Language is the ammunition. Our children are the prize.
Groomer Schools
The National Association of Independent Schools website being taken offline for a week of “system maintenance” directly before the SCOTUS hearing of Ketanji Brown Jackson is as coincidental as Trudeau disappearing with Covid during the trucker rally or Jen Psaki disappearing with Covid during the NYT confirmation of Hunter Biden’s laptop. (Note to self: disappear with Covid when in-laws come to town.) We’re sure it has nothing to do with Brown sitting on the Board of vanguard groomer school Georgetown Day School (GDS), which proudly touts recognition by the NAIS as being a leader in race essentialism (“equity”) and Marxist activism (“justice”). If GDS is openly touting classes in “reproductive justice,” “Neuroscience of Implicit Bias” (aka racist babies), “social justice” seminars obsessing in identity ideology, and teaching kindergarteners about trans and nonbinary among countless other extremist racism and gender lies, imagine what GDS is secretly telling its children to keep “confidential” under the guise of “privacy” as explained in its 2018 NAIS Annual Conference seminar titled “Secrecy vs. Privacy.”
This is what groomers do. They make you question yourself, dismantle your identity, and tell you to keep secrets “confidential” so hopefully should they go before a Ketanji Brown Jackson-like judge on pedo charges, she expresses more sympathy for them than the children on whom they preyed and cuts 80% off their recommended sentence. In Independent X School, this is called “reimagining” education. “Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.” George Orwell, 1984. Nary a mention of Chaucer or derivatives.
Corresponding with the egregious programming at GDS was Ketanji Brown Jackson’s representation that, as a Board Trustee, she has no knowledge or control over the curriculum and programming of GDS. Can Trustees really feign willful blindness at the basic operations of their school, especially when their own children attend the school? Of course not. But there is some explanation for why they so blatantly breach their fiduciary duties.
The Evolution of the Board Eunuch
In 1996, the NAIS Board of Directors approved guidelines entitled “Principles of Good Practice for Equity and Justice in Schools” to “ensure the inclusion of a diversity of individuals and groups in the many aspects of school life.” Don’t forget NAIS Director of Diversity and Black Panther Randolph Carter established the race essentialist teacher training program People of Color Conference (POCC) and child grooming Student Diversity Leadership Conference (SDLC) years before the PGPs. The PGPs purport to address the importance of respecting all members of the school community and the need for establishing a “bias-free environment by addressing issues of equity and justice”…which of course is much easier if you purge everyone who disagrees with teaching racism and identity ideology or simply asks a question.
These PGPs that stress the inclusion of diversity were written by NAIS Vice President of Equity and Justice Caroline Blackwell, Twitter handle @inclusionleader, who blocked Undercover Mother just last week from seeing her tweets. So again, if everything NAIS is doing is entirely above board and in the interests of children, why is NAIS constantly scrubbing its website and blocking yoga pant wearing moms who just want to see what NAIS is trying to foist onto our children?
So some time since the introduction of the PGPs, Independent X School followed the orders of cartel leader NAIS like a Stepford wife and began training Board Trustees they are 30,000 feet above the school and their only duties are: (1) fundraising; (2) support, hire, fire the headmaster; (3) support the mission and strategic vision; and of course, more fundraising, because endowments can never be big enough not to claim poverty and $1.2M is simply not enough to control a fiefdom for a powerless headmaster. How is Independent X School independent if NAIS is always telling it what to do? How can Boards even do the minimal duties listed in the PGPs – e.g. evaluate headmasters, if they have no idea how the headmaster is running the school? Are metrics purely financial or is academic programming ever a consideration?
I Am Board Trustee, Hear Me Roar
Board Trustees were not always impotent. Our schools are decades and centuries old. They thrived before the NAIS PGPs and before NAIS altogether. They thrived because of active and involved boards who worked in partnership with the headmaster not at the behest of the headmaster. Independent X School is an institution separate and distinct from NAIS. Board Trustees do not owe any duty to follow the dictates of NAIS. The fiduciary duties of care, loyalty and obedience are longstanding and simple. Board Trustees do not need PGPs to instruct them on their legal duties as a board member. In fact, many private school Board Trustees have served on other boards.
Trustees – You are not impotent. Talk to alums. Ask them about Boards in decades past. Independent X School was never just a cold fundraising machine sucking in capital and spitting out superficial global activists. Independent X School had a soul, a community, a mission with objective metrics. Maybe you don’t know where to start. Just start at the very beginning – enrollment contracts. Have you read this year’s enrollment contract? Do you know how the enrollment contract has changed in the past years? Do you know why those changes were made? Do you think Independent X School headmaster should be able to expel a third grader for a tweet his mother makes criticizing a school policy? Have an open forum with parents discussing the provisions of the enrollment contract.
Groomer Suit Liability
If Board Trustees do not act, the future holds a greater breadth of lawsuits brought as a result of Independent X School’s encouragement and cover up of grooming. Passive Boards can open up Independent X School to political grooming violating 501c3 status. With a history of sexual abuse cover-ups in privates and the likes of our friend Rodney Glasgow, mani-pedi enthusiast Sandy Spring Friends Headmaster, DEI Industrial Complex extraordinaire, and NAIS SDLC advisor, commanding children not to share the SDLC schedule, links or platform information “under any circumstances,” who knows what else lurks in the lake of liability. Cognizant of the danger, Bill Donohue, president and CEO of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, sent a letter to NAIS President Donna Orem asking her to validate footage in a recent Breitbart article. As expected, Orem did not respond. When will Boards respond?
Shits & Giggles Corner
Take a look at this upstanding young GDS senior cursing at a Senator on social media. This privileged private school white cisgender male is going to Harvard in the fall, which means he must be woke. Sure enough he’s the ultimate in white legacy admit who sees “privilege” everywhere but in his own life. NAIS’ dream of children growing into self-righteous morally superior snowflakes like serially triggered Francis Parker alum Ayanna Pressley is fulfilled! No doubt he set up that 501c4 dark money TikTok for Biden without the aid of his lobbyist dad or GW law prof mom.
While the objectively superior Kyle Kashuvs of the country continue to be passed over for sanctimonious pillow failing David Hoggs, the internet revels in the continued plunge in admissions for white (and Asian) students in favor of “real” “people of color.” See above tweet about the wokest of the woke Brentwood School. What, if anything, will Brentwood’s Board Chair – self-made Legalzoom and Honest Co. co-founder Brian Lee, a UCLA alum, do about this massive decline and potential parent revolt? We imagine the parents of juniors are having secret Bari Weiss article meetings as we type.
Appalling admissions have not only been confined to college admissions. In LA, where schools end in 6th or 8th, admissions for middle and high schools are continuing to be disastrous. Curtis School got woke and went broke with kids having nowhere to go and being banished to Buckley and the like. As a Columbia Teacher’s College alum, it’s no surprise Curtis headmaster Meera Ratnesar got woke, but how could she gain no respect for objective merit while teaching math at Collegiate? Abysmal admissions for white private school children are unlikely to change with resignation announcements by Admissions Directors at John Thomas Dye, Carlthorp, and even Harvard-Westlake (some planned and some unplanned). Until Boards start taking control of our schools, the only happy camper$ are the executive $earch firm$.
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