Equity! Equity!! Equity!!! But wait. Let’s take millions of dollars from millions of Joe Plumbers. Save the endowment for a global pandemic. Let’s let the numbers talk:
As Biden shamelessly bribes voters with student loan debt forgiveness for writing theses on Disco and Queerness (this is real), everyone conveniently forgot the most exclusive schools in the nation had millions and millions and millions and millions of PPP loans forgiven. Unlike most organizations and businesses, Independent X School did not miss a beat in the months following lockdowns. Contracts of financial commitments for the 2020-2021 academic year were already signed by late February 2020. Independent X School made no offers to relieve or lighten contractual obligations in light of these uncertainties, and merely continued to raise tuition in January 2021 contracts for the 2021-2022 academic year. In fact, if you asked any questions, Independent X School threatened to expel your model second grader. Ask questions! Be activists! Change the world! No, not you parents – do as we say or you’re gone. But we’ll keep your money!
Independent X Board did not cut salaries for Independent X Headmaster or senior admin. In fact, administrative spending increased. Independent X School hired DEI staff and consultants to conduct “anti-racist” trainings for parents, trustees, faculty, and staff. Robin DiAngelo and Ibram Henry Rogers (Ibram “X Kendi”) were in high demand. Horace Mann (NY) hired Robin DiAngelo in November 2021 to spend the day with faculty and students in group trainings and give an assembly speech for a rumored $35,000 – just your average annual American salary. You’re white: you are slaveholding scum! You’re black: you are a poor helpless victim who doesn’t have the capacity to do anything on your own! I’ll take my check that could pay for one underprivileged child’s yearly tuition, now. Maybe I’ll invest in one of your dad’s hedge funds. DiAngelo, out.
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Isn’t it interesting how many religious schools took millions? We guess fleecing the poor is fine if you are doing God’s work indoctrinating children with Marxism. The most astounding facet? Our schools are filled with the financial elite of the country. Not just the 1%, but the 0.0001% - millionaires, multi-millionaires and billionaires. Billionaires. Most of us are better off than the vast majority of the country, and we’re generous. We are certain Larry Kudlow (Dwight Engelwood School – NY/NJ), Sarah Murdoch (Harvard-Westlake, Carlthorp – CA), Charlie Munger and family (Harvard-Westlake - CA, Saint Ann’s – NY, City & Country – NY), the Clintons and Obamas (Sidwell Friends – DC), Jay Z and Beyonce (The Center – CA), Alfred Sloan (Poly Prep Country Day – NY), Dan Otero (Ransom Everglades – FL), Rodney Glasgow (Sandy Spring Friends – MD), Steve Ballmer (Detroit Country Day – MI), Zoe Kravitz (Miami Country Day – FL), John Katzman (Birch Wathen Lenox – NY), the Onassis family (Hewitt School – NY), Sallie Krawcheck (Porter Gaud – SC), Fred Friendly (Cheshire Academy – CT), and maybe even literal avowed Socialist NYC Councilman Kristin Richardson Jordan (Calhoun – NY) (oh the hypocrisy) – just to name a few of the thousands of notable parents and alums, would have been happy to contribute. So why? Why in hell did any Independent X School accept even a single penny of federal taxpayer PPP money and then keep it all when it was clearly not suffering? Because in addition to full tuition, Independent X School exceeded fundraising totals for the 2020-2021 school year. Some, like St. Andrews (FL) had record breaking fundraising even for the 2021-2022 school year.
We’ve researched the financials, and income has been increasing compared to expenses at NAIS schools. What’s more, accreditation organizations like NAIS and COGNIA had no dip in total revenues (given the public markets performance with the S&P rising 47% last year resulting in substantial increase in the investable assets which offset any revenue shortfalls). Businesses associated with NAIS schools saw their businesses boom from the frenzy to hire DEI Industrial Complex staff and consultants.
This is not how you raise responsible children who will look out for others and change the world for the better. These are not Boards who are fulfilling their fiduciary duties. These are not our historical institutions. Real Independent X School would take a hard look at its finances and cut the fat. NAIS Membership. Cut. People of Color Conference (PoCC). Cut. National Anti Racism Teach-In (NART). Cut. Pollyanna Conference. Cut. Glenn Singleton/Pacific Educational Group – “Courageous Conversation.” Cut. Rodney Glasgow. Cut. Crisis Management with The Jane Group and Venable. Cut. Teacher compensation. Increase. Real Independent X School would lead by example and bring every constituency together to lift Independent X School, not burden the American taxpayer. Taking PPP, like forgiving student debt, simply increases cash flow to Independent X School and makes tuitions increase exponentially. STOP GIVING $$$ TO INDEPENDENT X SCHOOL.
But guess what – Independent X School isn’t private anymore. Now it is subject to all federal laws. So suit up. Independent X School cannot keep bullying us. We want transparency and no sexual/woke grooming. That’s right – no grooming.
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